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  • Great Schools Tax Credit Program Act (Scholarship Tax Credits) image

    Great Schools Tax Credit Program Act (Scholarship Tax Credits)

    The Great Schools Tax Credit Program authorizes a tax credit for individual and corporate contributions to organizations that provide educational scholarships to eligible students so they can attend qualifying public or private schools of their parents’ choice.

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    Indiana Education Reform Package

    Chapters of the Indiana Education Reform Package (1) Charter Schools Act (2) School Scholarships Act (3) Teacher Evaluations and Licensing Act (4) Teacher Collective Bargaining Act (5) Turnaround…

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    Open Enrollment Act

    Section 1. {Purpose.} The Purpose of this Act is to improve educational achievement and to enhance the opportunity for parental choice in education by providing additional options to…

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    Great Teachers and Leaders Act

    Section 1. {Legislative declaration.} (A) The Legislature hereby declares that: (1) A system to evaluate the effectiveness of licensed personnel is crucial to improving the quality…

  • Choosing A Better Way to Educate Students image

    Choosing A Better Way to Educate Students

    In the policy paper released by the Republican House Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility, solutions to the education system that will help keep vulnerable youth from…

  • Changing Lives Across Multiple Measures: School Choice Delivers By Metrics of Parents and Regulators image

    Changing Lives Across Multiple Measures: School Choice Delivers By Metrics of Parents and Regulators

    A new meta-analysis of studies done on the academic achievement of students in school choice programs shows that empowering parents to choose, delivers across multiple assessment metrics.

  • New Report Examines Three Innovative Parent Tools to Optimize the Potential of Education Savings Accounts image

    New Report Examines Three Innovative Parent Tools to Optimize the Potential of Education Savings Accounts

    Education savings accounts have the potential to rewire the entire education system around new decision-makers: parents.

  • The 21st Century Education Savings Accounts image

    The 21st Century Education Savings Accounts

    School choice programs, from charter schools to voucher and tax credit scholarship programs, enjoy bipartisan support and are growing quickly across a majority of states. However, not all school choice…

  • Massachusetts Plays the Lottery with Students’ Futures image

    Massachusetts Plays the Lottery with Students’ Futures

    Last Wednesday, the families of 366 Massachusetts students waited anxiously while their educational fates were decided by a lottery. The families were applying to the Holyoke Community Charter School, one of the best in Massachusetts, but because charter school enrollment is arbitrarily capped in the state, only 34 were chosen to enroll in the school. Unfortunately, scenes like the one at Holyoke are not uncommon in Massachusetts, where the law allows only a certain number of charter schools to operate.

  • ALEC Principles Shine Light on Government Failures image

    ALEC Principles Shine Light on Government Failures

    Sunshine Week, running from March 13 to 19, aims to promote transparency in government, which is a fundamental component of the ALEC principles of limited government, free markets and federalism. The private sector can offer superior alternatives to failing public schools, overly complex healthcare services and expensive infrastructure projects. When government services are transferred to the free market, private companies deliver high-quality public services at far less cost to the taxpayer.

  • Report Ranks States for Hostility to Parent Choice and Charter Schools image

    Report Ranks States for Hostility to Parent Choice and Charter Schools

    On Tuesday, the Network for Public Education (NPE), a policy group led by well-known school choice opponent Diane Ravitch, published a report grading the states’ education policies. Unlike the…

  • National School Choice Week Sets Participation Record in 2016 image

    National School Choice Week Sets Participation Record in 2016

    This week, millions of teachers, students, parents and community leaders are coming together to promote and celebrate the merits of school choice.

  • Five Reasons to Celebrate National School Choice Week 2016 image

    Five Reasons to Celebrate National School Choice Week 2016

    This week is National School Choice Week! Here are five reasons to celebrate school choice this year.

  • Higher Education Scholarships for High School Pupils Act image

    Higher Education Scholarships for High School Pupils Act

    Section 1. {Title} Higher Education Scholarships for High School Pupils Section 2. {Basic elements of the Act} Upon adoption of this subdivision in a school district, a pupil…

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    Online Learning Clearinghouse Act

    Section 1. {Title.} Online Learning Clearinghouse Act Section 2. {Definitions.} (A) “Clearinghouse” means the clearinghouse established under Section 3. (B) “Data verification code” means a code that is…

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    Parental Choice Scholarship Program Act (Means-Tested Eligibility)

    Summary: The Parental Choice Scholarship Program Act creates a scholarship program that provides children from low- and middle-income families the option to attend the public or private elementary or secondary school of their parents’ choice.

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    Parent Trigger Act

    Section 1: {Short Title.} This act may be cited as the “Parent Empowerment and Choice Act” or the “Parent Trigger Act.” Section 2. {Definitions.} For purposes of this…

  • Feltscher to Breitbart: Choice for All Students is the Future of American Education image

    Feltscher to Breitbart: Choice for All Students is the Future of American Education

    Late last week, and just in time for School Choice Week, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a universal education savings account (ESA) bill for all of the District…

  • Inez Feltscher Defends School Choice in O.C. Register image

    Inez Feltscher Defends School Choice in O.C. Register

    Board members of the Anaheim Union High School District and Superintendent Michael Matsuda took to the Voice of OC news site to argue that charter schools’ “main goal” is to…

  • Feltscher to Breitbart: Omnibus Bill Fails to Reauthorize School Choice image

    Feltscher to Breitbart: Omnibus Bill Fails to Reauthorize School Choice

    Adding to other disappointments for conservatives, the FY 2016 omnibus spending bill does not include reauthorization for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (DCOSP). The District’s scholarship program serves…