SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Republican Rep. Chris Karr said a law which allows for scholarships for students in private schools should be replaced with a voucher system during today’s House Committee ...

TO WIN THE REST OF THE DAY. WELL, FOR THE SECOND DAY IN A ROW, NEBRASKA’S HIGH COURT HAS ASKED TO BLOCK A BALLOT MEASURE FROM APPEARING BEFORE VOTERS. THIS TIME, IT’S AN EFFORT TO PARTIALLY REPEAL A ...

House Republicans want to set aside up to $5 billion a year for scholarships to help families send their children to private and religious schools, an unprecedented effort to use public money to pay ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – State spending on private school scholarships has exceeded estimates by over $15 million and is inching toward the $1 billion mark. As of March 18, state spending on all five ...

This article was originally published in Ohio Capital Journal. Ohio spent nearly a billion dollars on private school scholarship programs for the 2024 fiscal year, the first full year with ...

Elementary school students who received scholarships through Illinois’ controversial Invest in Kids tax credit program lagged in reading and math proficiency on state standardized tests compared with ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Vouchers for private school tuition – which the legislature expanded to include all families, regardless of income – have cost taxpayers $966.2 million so far for last school year.

Most of the biggest recent developments in the world of private school choice have centered around education savings accounts, a twist on the private school voucher that parents can spend on tuition, ...

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Congress on Wednesday took a major and unprecedented step toward creating a federal private school choice program, as House lawmakers narrowly approved a sweeping legislative package with $5 billion ...