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Research & Commentary: Making the Invest in Kids Program Permanent is the Right Way to Go for Illinois
May 12, 2021
Program Provided Scholarships For Over 5,500 Students In 2020, With Over 32,000 Still On Wait List
A bipartisan group of legislators have introduced a bill to make the Invest in Kids Program, Illinois’ tax-credit scholarship (TCS) program for low-income students which is set to expire in 2022, a permanent program.
Enacted in 2017, the Invest in Kids Program is open to families with household income levels below 300 percent of the federal poverty level. Currently, roughly 52 percent of Illinois families are eligible for the program, which has a budget cap of $75 million.
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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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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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