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Research & Commentary: Bills Expanding Eligibility to ESA Program and Lexie’s Law All Help Provide Great Education Options for Arizona Children
February 5, 2021
Bills Would Expand ESA to Low-Income, Bullied, and Military Children; Expand Budget For Lexie s Law
The Arizona Legislature has seen a flurry of school choice legislation introduced this session that could provide tremendous help to families looking for better educational options for their children.
Three bills involve expanding the scope of the state’s Empowerment Scholarship Account Program, the nation’s first education savings account (ESA) program. In the Senate, SB 1452 would open the program up to students from low-income families or students who attend a district public school that has a high percentage of low-income students. Meanwhile, SB 1513 would open the program up to the children of first responders, health care workers, and militar
By Brian Mudd
Jan 29, 2021
Q&A of the Day – What’s the top priority for Florida this year? Part 2
Bottom Line: Governor DeSantis dubbed 2020 “The year of the teacher”. That was the theme of the 2020 legislative session. Of course, the pandemic which hit shortly after the governor outlined that agenda, largely cast a shadow over everything else in education last year. Still, record pay raises passed in last year’s session provided Florida’s teachers with a pay scale that’s competitive with the top states in the country. I’d like to see the 2021 session be the year of “Choice”.
January 29, 2021
Program Would Be Open To All Children K-5
Legislation in the North Dakota House of Representatives has been recently introduced that would establish an education savings account (ESA) program for all North Dakota children in grades K–5. If passed, the ESAs would be available to parents of public school children to pay for tuition, curriculum, and fees at private and parochial schools. The funds could also be used to pay for textbooks, tutoring services, computers and other approved hardware, instructional materials, and educational therapies and services. The ESAs could also be used to cover the fees required to take national standardized achievement tests, such as the SAT or ACT.
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January 27, 2021
Roughly 10,000 Students Would Be Eligible For Program
Legislation making its way through the Iowa Senate would, among other things, establish the Student First Scholarship Program, an education savings account (ESA) program open to children attending a “public school identified for comprehensive support and improvement under the federal Every Student Succeeds Act [ESSA].”
These accounts would pay for “tuition and fees at a nonpublic school, textbooks, fees or payments for educational therapies, including tutoring or cognitive skills training, curriculum fees and materials for a course of study for a specific subjectmatter or grade level, tuition or fees for nonpublic online education programs, tuition for vocational and life skillseducation approved by the department of education, education materials and services for pupils with disabilities, including the cost of paraprofessionals and as