Download or read book The Tax Credit Scholarship Audit written by Martin F. Lueken and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report follows up on previous work that examined the fiscal effects of private school voucher programs. It estimates the total fiscal effects of tax-credit scholarship programs--another type of private school choice program--on state governments, state and local taxpayers, and school districts combined. Based on a range of assumptions, these programs generated between $1.7 billion and $3.4 billion in taxpayer savings through the 2013-14 school year. That is equivalent to up to $3,000 per scholarship student. In general, tax-credit scholarships allow taxpayers to receive full or partial tax credits when they donate to nonprofits that provide students with private school scholarships. Eligible taxpayers can include both individuals and businesses. Some supporters of tax-credit scholarships argue that they give taxpayers more freedom than vouchers to support the types of education that align with their values and preferences. Vouchers, on the other hand, "compel taxpayers to financially support forms of education to which they may object." For the period covered in this analysis, there were 21 tax-credit scholarship programs operating in 17 states. Of those, the author added 10 (covering seven states) in this report. All but two of the programs analyzed are the largest in the country. In total, the 10 programs that were analyzed represent 93 percent of all scholarships awarded in tax-credit scholarship programs today. Programs analyzed in this report are: (1) Arizona Original Individual Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program; (2) Arizona Low-Income Corporate Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program; (3) Arizona Lexie's Law for Disabled and Displaced Students Tax Credit Scholarship Program; (4) Arizona "Switcher" Individual Income Tax Credit Scholarship Program; (5) Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program; (6) Georgia Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit; (7) Indiana School Scholarship Tax Credit; (8) Iowa School Tuition Organization Tax Credit; (9) Pennsylvania Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program; and (10) Rhode Island Tax Credits for Contributions to Scholarship Organizations. There are certain challenges and considerations that generally apply to evaluating the fiscal impact of any school choice program. Two key factors that apply to all programs: (1) variable costs per student, meaning those costs that are directly associated with a given student and that would not be spent if that student were not enrolled; and (2) the number of students who would have attended public schools without the financial assistance from the tax-credit scholarship program (aka "switchers"). In some states, there is also a third factor: (3) the proportion of scholarships that are given to students who receive more than one scholarship. Appended are: (1) Scholarships Awarded in Tax-Credit Scholarship Programs; (2) Surveying Scholarship Organizations; (3) Considerations and Complicating Factors; and (4) Tax-Credit Scholarship Program Tax Credit Caps.
Download or read book Qualified Education Expense Credit and Student Scholarship Program written by Georgia. Department of Audits and Accounts. Performance Audit Division and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book NeoVouchers written by Kevin G. Welner and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While school vouchers have captured the headlines, a different policy has captured the students. Tuition tax credit laws are now entrenched in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia, and they affect far more students. Yet few people understand the nature of these policies or the political and legal issues surrounding them. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, legality, and policy implications of tuition tax credits, which have garnered only scant attention even while expanding to cover more students than the voucher policies they're designed to emulate. At a time when tax credit policies are becoming a major form of American school choice, this book offers insights into both the strengths and weakness ofthe approach.
Download or read book Funding School Choice written by Greg Forster and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many states are considering a form a school choice known as "tax-credit scholarships," which currently provide school choice to almost 60,000 students in Arizona, Florida and Pennsylvania, which and have just been enacted in Iowa. This guide shows how tax-credit scholarships work and introduces the scholarship granting organizations that administer them. (Contains 13 endnotes.).
Download or read book Private School Choice Accountability in State Tax Credit Scholarship Programs Report to Congressional Requesters written by United States. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fiscal Impact of a Corporate Individual Tax Credit Scholarship Program on the State of Indiana School Choice Issues in the State written by David Stuit and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indiana legislators are currently debating the merits of a proposal to adopt a statewide tuition scholarship tax credit program. The proposed program would make available $5 million in tax credits that businesses and individuals could claim by making donations to non-profit Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs). SGO donations would be matched at 50 percent, meaning that the state would provide a 50 cent tax credit for each dollar donated to a SGO. SGOs would in turn distribute scholarships for families to use towards private schooling costs. Eligibility for the program is restricted to students who were not enrolled in private schools in the previous school year and whose household income is at or below 200 percent of the federal free and reduced-price lunch program. Students who received a scholarship in the previous school year from a qualifying non-profit are also eligible. The purpose of this study is to project the impact of this program on the state's public education costs. It forecasts the immediate costs of the program in foregone state tax revenue and the potential cost savings that result if public school students use the scholarships to migrate to private schools. These estimations will allow policymakers and taxpayers to evaluate the merits of the policy in the context of its financial implications for the state. Findings reveal that the tax credit scholarship program will result in savings to the state, regardless of demand. The program is estimated to produce cost savings at any scholarship amount between $500 and $5,000. (Contains 4 figures, 10 tables, and 13 endnotes.) [This study was released jointly by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the Alliance for School Choice, School Choice Indiana, Indiana Non-Public Education Association, Indiana Catholic Conference, Agudath Israel of America, and the Educational Choice Charitable Trust.].
Download or read book Tuition Tax Credits written by James S. Catterall and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Auditor s Report written by Natal (South Africa). Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tax Credit Scholarship Programs and the Changing Ecology of Public Education written by Hillel Y. Levin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional model of public education continues to be challenged by advocates of school choice. Typically associated with charter schools, magnet schools, and tuition voucher programs, these advocates have recently introduced a new school choice plan, namely tax credit scholarship programs. More than a dozen states have adopted such programs, and hundreds of millions of dollars are now diverted each year from public programs to private schools. These programs are poorly-understood and under-studied by legal scholars. This Article assesses the place of these programs within the ecology of public education, considers the fundamentally different approaches states have taken to these programs, identifies some critical questions and problems with them, and proposes a set of best practices for states to follow in designing and implementing them. The Companion Article for this paper are available at the following URL: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2268538.
Download or read book Tax Credit Scholarship Programs written by Hillel Y. Levin and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a companion piece to an article that carefully analyzes tuition tax credit scholarship programs now popular around the country. This article offers a model statute for states considering or improving such programs that addresses concerns raised in my previous article. The companion article (Tax Credit Scholarship Programs and the Changing Ecology of Public Education) for this paper is available at the following URL: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2244608.
Download or read book Choosing to Learn written by Jason Bedrick and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Arizona Scholarship Tax Credit Giving Parents Choices Saving Taxpayers Money written by Carrie Lips and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program written by Florida. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Administration of the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Program and Florida Student Assistance Grant Programs written by Florida. Office of the Auditor General and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sections 1009.50(4)(e), 1009.505(4)(e), and 1009.53(5)(c), Florida Statutes, requires a periodic audit of the administration of, and accounting of the moneys for, the Florida Public Student Assistance Grant, the Florida Public Postsecondary Career Education Student Assistance Grant, and the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship Programs by Florida’s public universities, colleges, and district school boards. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 11.45, Florida Statutes, have directed that this operational audit report be prepared to present the results of that audit.
Download or read book Performance Audit Report State funded Medical Scholarship Programs written by Kansas. Legislature. Legislative Division of Post Audit and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fiscal Impact of the Kentucky Education Tax Credit Program written by Brian J. Gottlob and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the fiscal impact of a proposal to create a personal tax credit for educational expenses and a tax-credit scholarship program in Kentucky. It finds that the actual fiscal impact of the program would be much less than its nominal dollar size, due to the reduced public school costs resulting from migration of students from public schools to private schools. Specifically, it finds that the net impact of creating $60 million in tax-credit scholarships would be only $2 million to $17 million, and the net impact of giving $23.2 million in personal tax credits would be only $11.4 million. (Contains 7 figures, 5 tables and 7 endnotes.).
Download or read book School Choice Myths written by Corey A. DeAngelis and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2020-10-07 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there legitimate arguments to prevent families from choosing the education that works best for their children? Opponents of school choice have certainly offered many objections, but for decades they have mainly repeated myths either because they did not know any better or perhaps to protect the government schooling monopoly. In these pages, 14 of the top scholars in education policy debunk a dozen of the most pernicious myths, including “school choice siphons money from public schools,” “choice harms children left behind in public schools,” “school choice has racist origins,” and “choice only helps the rich get richer.” As the contributors demonstrate, even arguments against school choice that seem to make powerful intuitive sense fall apart under scrutiny. There are, frankly, no compelling arguments against funding students directly instead of public school systems. School Choice Myths shatters the mythology standing in the way of education freedom.
