The foundation in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships, each worth up to $ 1,400 annually
toward tuition at a private school.
The School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually
toward tuition at a private school for at least three years.
For the uninitiated, a voucher enables a parent to take education funding issued by the government and apply that money
toward tuition at a private school.
Not exact matches
In addition to vouchers, the category of
private school choice now includes
tuition tax credit programs, a legislative maneuver that lets business redirect taxes owed to the state
toward «scholarships» for student
tuition at private and religious
schools.
The movement
toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of
school privatization efforts, such as
tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to
private schools — have had mixed results,
at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students,
at worst.
Advocates for
private -
school vouchers this week cheered the Supreme Court's decision that the state of Missouri may not deny a playground resurfacing grant to a church, calling the decision a first step
toward an end to state bans on using public money to pay
tuition at parochial
schools.
Introduced by Rep. Luke Messer (R - IN), this bill would establish Title I portability, allowing federal funds for low - income students to «follow the child» to another
school and would also allow contributions to 529 accounts to be used
toward pre-K, elementary, and secondary
school expenses including
tuition at private schools and home
school expenses.
President Donald Trump and DeVos favor permitting public funding to be used
toward tuition at private and religious
schools.
For example, the closed
school loan discharge payments would cover the federal loan balances while the
tuition recovery fund payments could cover expenses such as
private loans and cash payments that were directed
toward tuition payments
at your closed
school.