Sentences with phrase «tuition tax credit programs»

Arizona implemented a private school tuition tax credit program in 1997.

The state's Private School Tuition Tax Credits program covers the cost of private education, often for children whose parents could afford to pay it themselves — while allowing affluent families to reduce the amount of income tax they pay into the state's general fund.

The Tribune's own investigation into Arizona's long - running tuition tax credit program found that an untold number of STOs, schools and parents are using the tax credits in ways that violate federal tax laws governing charitable donations.

The pace of change has become so rapid that it is hard to keep up with all the new developments, but as of July 2015 there were twenty - six states with at least one program to provide support to parents enrolling their children in private schools: fifteen states with education vouchers helping to educate more than 150,000 students, fifteen with tuition tax credit programs helping more than 200,000 students, and some with both.

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 2011 conference of the National Leadership Roundtable of Church Management, a Catholic organization, called for an aggressive strategy to implement tuition tax credit programs or neovouchers in all 50 states.

First Amendment: Establishment Clause — constitutionality of Arizona tuition tax credit program.

Voucher and tuition tax credit programs divert resources away from the public school system and fund the education of a few, select voucher students while ignoring overall student academic achievement.

In 2009 the Arizona legislature passed «Lexie's Law» (the Disabled / Displaced Tuition Tax Credit Program).

The study found that donors to state tuition tax credit programs can take advantage of both state tax credits and federal tax deductions, creating profits for many wealthy taxpayers: «For some high - income taxpayers, this dual benefit can turn a scholarship «donation» into a profit - generating scheme where the total tax cut received significantly exceeds the size of the original donation.»

A 2010 study of Georgia's tuition tax credit program revealed that while only 10 % of white students in public schools attended «virtually segregated» schools, within the program at private schools, this rose dramatically to 53 %.

A 2013 study of a Georgia tuition tax credit program found that «at least 115 private schools [participating in the program] have explicit anti-gay policies or belong to associations that condemn homosexuality.»

NSBA joined over 50 National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE) members in expressing their opposition to school vouchers and tuition tax credit programs in a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives.

Lawmakers did pass a tuition tax credit program for students with disabilities, which transitioned last summer into a direct voucher program that provides reimbursement for expenses related to disability education beginning in spring 2014.

March 26, 2015: NSBA Signs on to NCPE Coalition Letter Opposing Vouchers NSBA, along with 52 other members of the National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE), writes the Senate to express our strong opposition to any amendments to the Fiscal 2016 Senate Budget Resolution (S. Con Res.11) that would support the creation of a private school voucher or tuition tax credit program.

Congress would better serve ALL children by directing funds to make public schools stronger and safer instead of creating a new voucher or tuition tax credit program.

Voucher and tuition tax credit programs would divert desperately - needed resources away from the public school system to fund the education of a few, select voucher students while ignoring overall student academic achievement.

11) that would support the creation of a private school voucher or tuition tax credit program.

Varieties of private choice options include full school - choice options (vouchers), special needs vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, and privately sponsored choice scholarship programs.

Pennsylvania has two tuition tax credit programs: the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) and Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Together they provide $ 125 million for vouchers.

Introduced by Senator Marco Rubio (R - FL) in the Senate and Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN) in the House, this bill would create a tuition tax credit program.

Introduced by Representative Lloyd Smucker (R - PA), this bill would create a tuition tax credit program by providing a tax credit to individuals and corporations that give money to scholarship granting organizations to that provide vouchers to K - 12 students.

R. 1511), a bill that would create a tuition tax credit program, allowing a dollar - for - dollar tax credit for individuals and corporations who donate to organizations that provide vouchers to low - income students to attend private schools.

In 2008, the Show - Me Institute released a «policy study» titled «The Fiscal Effects of a Tuition Tax Credit Program in Missouri,» and that same year, Jones introduced a tuition tax credit bill titled the «Children's Education Freedom Act,» which reflected the ALEC «Great Schools Tax Credit Act.»

NSBA joined over 50 National Coalition for Public Education (NCPE) members in expressing strong opposition to school vouchers and tuition tax credit programs in a recent letter to the U.S. House of Representatives.