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What the Education Choice Movement Can Do Next: Personal-Use Tax Credits for K-12 Education. Special Report. No. 289

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Title: What the Education Choice Movement Can Do Next: Personal-Use Tax Credits for K-12 Education. Special Report. No. 289
Language: English
Authors: Matthew Ladner, Heritage Foundation, Center for Education Policy
Source: Heritage Foundation. 2024.
Availability: Heritage Foundation. 214 Massachusetts Avenue NE, Washington, DC 20002-4999. Tel: 202-546-4400; Fax: 202-546-8328; e-mail: info@heritage.org; Web site: http://www.heritage.org
Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 35
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
Descriptors: School Choice, Tax Credits, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts, Private Schools, National Competency Tests, Scores, Reading Tests, Mathematics Tests, Expenditure per Student, Baby Boomers, Retirement, Census Figures, Enrollment Projections, Disadvantaged, Home Schooling
Geographic Terms: Oklahoma
Assessment and Survey Identifiers: National Assessment of Educational Progress
Abstract: The United States faces substantial cultural, political, and military challenges, yet remains hampered by a severely underperforming and costly system of K-12 education. Far from an unhappy accident, American school districts behave broadly as their major interest groups desire, and the demand for non-district K-12 options continues to greatly exceed the supply. State lawmakers have taken unprecedented steps to create and expand private education choice programs, but families require further action. Creating a demand-driven K-12 education system requires multiple robust choice programs. Several states passed modest personal-use tax credits for non-public education expenses. Oklahoma lawmakers passed the most robust version of this policy to date in 2023. State lawmakers should pass an optimized personal-use tax-credit program in every state to enhance family control over K-12 education across the country.
Abstractor: ERIC
Entry Date: 2025
Accession Number: ED673351
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:The United States faces substantial cultural, political, and military challenges, yet remains hampered by a severely underperforming and costly system of K-12 education. Far from an unhappy accident, American school districts behave broadly as their major interest groups desire, and the demand for non-district K-12 options continues to greatly exceed the supply. State lawmakers have taken unprecedented steps to create and expand private education choice programs, but families require further action. Creating a demand-driven K-12 education system requires multiple robust choice programs. Several states passed modest personal-use tax credits for non-public education expenses. Oklahoma lawmakers passed the most robust version of this policy to date in 2023. State lawmakers should pass an optimized personal-use tax-credit program in every state to enhance family control over K-12 education across the country.