School vouchers Archives

Church leaders hope tax credit scholarships move to federal level
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- August 6, 2017
With vouchers, parents receive funds directly from the state to pay for part, or all, of their child’s education. Scholarship tax credits remove the state as middle man since corporations or donors contribute to scholarship grant organizations charged with dispersing funds to families for tuition payments. For these contributions, the companies and other donors receive a tax credit.
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School vouchers gain support, see smoother path ahead
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- March 20, 2017
Supporters of school voucher programs are looking forward to action on the issue given the Trump administration’s focus on it. Trump’s budget doesn’t explain how it will work out, but his education secretary says she has a plan.
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Trump pushes education choices in visit to Florida Catholic school
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- March 5, 2017
Maureen Ferguson, senior policy advisor at The Catholic Association, said the president’s visit was appropriate given Catholic schools’ “record of success.” She said Catholic high school students are twice as likely as public school students to graduate college and their high school education is half the cost as public schools.
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Nevada high court blocks funding for school choice program

The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled against the money source for the state’s school voucher program — which has been on hold since the winter, and never disbursed funds to families as it intended — but upheld some of the major tenets underlying the concept.

Florida court rejects challenge to school voucher program

A Florida appeals court rejected a bid to end the state’s largest private school voucher program on Tuesday, an effort opposed by the state’s Catholic bishops. But experts say it’s unclear if the ruling will end the two-year-old legal battle.