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May 6, 2021
Every Ohio Child Would Become Eligible For Highly Popular Educational Choice Scholarship Voucher
Legislation introduced in the Ohio House of Representatives would ensure that every child in the Buckeye State would be eligible to participate in the state’s highly popular Educational Choice Scholarship voucher program.
This “Backpack Bill” (as in education funds will follow a child like a backpack) has been introduced as a “‘Legislative Intent Bill’ while lawmakers debate Ohio’s education funding formula,” according to the Center for Christian Virtue, a Christian public policy organization in Columbus. This means “finalized language will be amended into [the bill] and will ensure any child that chooses to opt into the Backpack Bill program can access a scholarship to attend the school that best meets his or her needs.”
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Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!
May 6, 2021
Forty School Choice Programs Have Saved Between $12.1 And $27.8 Billion Through 2018
A Working Paper released by EdChoice in March 2021 finds that education choice programs have saved taxpayers between $12.1 billion and $27.8 billion through Fiscal Year (FY) 2018.
The Fiscal Effects of Private K–12 Education Programs in the United States, authored by EdChoice’s Director of Fiscal Policy and Analysis Martin Lueken, analyzed data from 40 separate private school choice programs including 19 voucher programs, 18 tax-credit scholarship programs, and three education savings account (ESA) programs in 19 different states as well as the District of Columbia. The report also “uses short-run and long-run variable cost estimates to generate lower bounds and upper bounds of the fiscal effects of educational choice program on taxpayers through FY 2018,” Lueken notes. “The longer that a program operates,
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Never lose a debate with a global warming alarmist!
May 7, 2021
Education Choice Associated With Higher NAEP Achievement Levels, Higher Gains
A March 2021 report from the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas finds that states with higher levels of education choice, or “education freedom,” are associated with higher achievement levels and higher achievement gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test, colloquially known as the “Nation’s Report Card.”
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Education Freedom and Student Achievement: Is More School Choice Associated with Higher State-Level Performance on the NAEP?, states are ranked according to an “Education Freedom Index” that has four components: the availability of private school choice programs in the state, the availability of charter schools in the state, the availability of public school choice (such as open enrollment) in the state, and the ease with which families in the s
April 22, 2021
Program Would Be Open To Children With Special Needs, Children In Foster Care, And The Children Of Active Duty Military Members
Legislation introduced in the Alabama House of Representatives would establish an Education Savings Account (ESA) Program open to any K–12 student who is the child of an active duty military service member, or in foster care, or has special needs.
With an ESA, state education funds allocated for a child are placed in a parent-controlled savings account. Parents then use a state-provided debit card to access the funds to pay for the resources chosen for their child’s unique educational program. Under the proposed program, ESAs could be used to pay for tuition and fees at private and parochial schools, as well as textbooks and other instructional materials, and tutoring services. The ESAs could also be used to cover the fees required to take national standardized achievement tests, such as the SAT or ACT.
April 23, 2021
Program Could Possibly Grow By 25 Percent Every Fiscal Year
Legislation in the Pennsylvania Senate would expand the commonwealth’s Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program, a tax-credit scholarship program for low-income students. The program’s budget would increase to $185 million in fiscal year 2020–21 and would allow the program to increase by 25 percent in every fiscal year where at least 90 percent of the total credits were distributed to commonwealth families.
Research also shows students at private schools are less likely than their public school peers to experience problems such as alcohol abuse, bullying, drug use, fighting, gang activity, racial tension, theft, vandalism, and weapon-based threats. There is also a strong causal link suggesting private school choice programs improve the mental health of participating students.