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The legislation would create education savings accounts (ESAs) of about $10,893 per student — calculated as roughly 85% of what public schools receive per pupil — and allow home-schooling families to collect $2,000 per child.
If approved, qualifying students would be able to claim a refundable tax credit worth up to $5,000 to attend a nonpublic school. Students with disabilities could qualify for up to $7,500.
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, on Feb. 6 encouraged lawmakers to implement legislation that 'provides for an ever-greater spectrum of educational choice for families.'
The program builds off of a previous pilot program in which Tennessee had expanded school choice via an education savings account pilot program in several counties.
COMMENTARY: It provides a much-needed response to the virtual monopoly public schools have over the education system within the U.S.
A conflict between the US bishops’ conference and the Trump administration over immigration caught the media’s attention earlier this week but such tensions aren’t isolated to the Church in the United States or Trump policies or even the current political moment. EWTN News contributor Alberto Fernandez gives us a broader, more global perspective on the Catholic Church and issues of migration. And on a policy issue, where the US bishops and the current White House agree, President Trump expanded school choice. That decision came during Catholic Schools Week. We take a look with Register columnist Susanna Spencer at how to preserve the biggest blessings of Catholic education.
Kentucky, Nebraska and Colorado voted on school-choice ballot measures on Tuesday. While the measure in Colorado has not yet been called, voters are on pace to reject school choice in each state.
Republicans support and Democrats oppose educational choice programs, which help pay the tuition of almost 14% of students who attend Catholic schools.
Colorado and Kentucky have amendments on the ballot to promote school choice, while Nebraska has a ballot measure that could repeal a recent school-choice scholarship program.
Supporters of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School argue that refusing to allow the school to operate as a charter school is religious discrimination.
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