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Since its inception in 2021, the taxpayer-funded voucher-like program has distributed almost $45 million to families sending their children to private schools and other alternatives to their local ...
The education scholarship law established an education scholarship trust fund that grants $6,000 vouchers to qualified families who pull their children out of local public schools and enroll them ...
A school voucher, also called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents. Funding is usually for a particular year, term, or semester. In some countries, states, or local jurisdictions, the voucher can be used to cover or reimburse home schooling ...
Although the program was started to help low-income students escape failing schools, legislative changes in 2021 and 2023 made eligibility for the voucher program nearly universal.
The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program provides scholarships to low-income children in Washington D.C. for tuition and other fees at participating private schools. The program was the first Federally funded school voucher program in the United States. It was first approved in 2003 and allowed to expire for the first time in 2009 under the ...
The voucher program was expanded in 2023 after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill that allowed all families, regardless of their income levels, to apply for a private school voucher.
School choice is a term for education options that allow students and families to select alternatives to public schools. It is the subject of fierce debate in various state legislatures across the United States. The most common type of school choice in the United States, measured both by the number of programs and by the number of participating ...
House Bill 10 would spend about $500 million of taxpayer money on private school vouchers, known as the Opportunity Scholarship Program. The legislature opened the voucher program to everyone ...