This valuable resource includes data, trends, and research about the country’s 18 school voucher and tax-credit scholarship programs, including:
In spite of the worst economic climate in decades, funding for school voucher and scholarship tax credit programs increased by $29 million this year, and student enrollment is up by 5 percent, to nearly 180,000.
There are 11 states (plus D.C.) offering either school voucher programs or scholarship tax-credit programs, and five of these programs are designed specifically to help students with special needs.
Florida has more students enrolled in school choice programs than any other state in the country (46,900 students).
· Indiana is the newest state to add a school choice program, a $2.5 million corporate and individual scholarship tax credit program that will begin serving students in 2010.
This blog post originally appeared on Independent Women’s Forum Inkwell.
