The Alliance encourages policymakers to learn more about how school choice can help improve student achievement.
There are approximately 150,000 children benefiting from 16 different school choice programs nationwide. Each of the programs is unique in its design, funding mechanisms, and limitations.
As indicated, school choice has grown tremendously over the past several years.
Lawmakers interested in drafting legislation to support school choice should review model legislation approved by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and supported by the Alliance for School Choice and the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation.
Parental Choice Scholarship Program Act
This bill creates a scholarship program for children from low and middle-income families to attend the public or private elementary or secondary school of their parents’ choice.
This legislation authorizes a tax credit for individual and corporate contributions to organizations that provide educational scholarships to eligible students so they can attend qualified public and private schools of their parents’ choice.
The Foster Child Scholarship Program provides children who have been placed in foster care the option to attend a public or private school of their guardians’ choice.
This bill creates a scholarship program that helps children from low and middle-income families attend the public or private 4-year-old preschool program or 5-year-old kindergarten program of their parents’ choice.
This bill creates a scholarship program to provide G.I. Junior scholarships for all children of veterans and active military personnel to attend the public or private elementary or secondary school of their choice.
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