March 5th, 2010 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Legislation, Media
Join the Arizona STO Association (ASTOA) and its members and supporters on the Senate Lawn at the Arizona State Capital to celebrate and show support for Arizona’s many school choice programs…
March 1st, 2010 · Blog, For Parents, For Schools
The application deadline has now passed and our scholarship committee will begin to review the applications and make awards. If funds are awarded to your child, you will receive an email notification when the check is disbursed to the school. Due to the volume of applications, we anticipate the distribution to be completed by the 3rd or 4th week of March.
December 9th, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Legislation
On Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 2:00 pm in HHR5, the Legislative Tax Credit Review Committee will be holding a hearing at the Capitol. Rep. Murphy has requested that Harry Miller, President of TOPS for Kids, testify on behalf of the School Tuition Organizations. Supporters of School Choice are encouraged to attend.
November 24th, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Media
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson
The latest fiscal impact review of Arizona’s scholarship tax credit programs estimates that they saved between $44 million and $186 million last year. The programs offer individuals and businesses dollar-for-dollar tax credits if they make donations to non-profit K-12 scholarship-granting organizations. Those organizations, in turn, provide private school tuition assistance.
This is much higher than the savings estimate offered by the Arizona Republic last month, as the AZ Republic story linked above is quick to point out. I deal with the reasons for the discrepancy below, but first, here’s the crucial fact…
November 23rd, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Media
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE DAILY – NOVEMBER 23, 2009
Read the online version of this Daily Email here.
Tuition Tax Credit Saves At Least Twice What It Costs State
by Matthew Ladner, Ph.D.
Baylor University economist Dr. Charles North developed an estimate of the savings to state taxpayers due to the individual tax credit, and shared his findings with the Arizona Legislature last week. You can find Dr. North’s analysis here and view his testimony to the Ad Hoc Committee on…
November 17th, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Legislation, Media
As a follow up to a recent blog post, a recording of the 2nd Private School Tax Credit Review Committee Meeting that was held on November 16, 2009 can be found here.
November 13th, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools
APESF has released a fall newsletter for 2009! Stay up-to-date on what’s happening with APESF and the Private School Tax Credit Program…
View the newsletter in your internet browser.
Download a copy of the newsletter.
November 2nd, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Legislation
On October 15, the Private School Tax Credit Review Committee from the AZ House of Representatives sent a letter to all Arizona STO’s requesting information regarding their programs. The following is a copy of our response to that letter…
October 28th, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools, Legislation
Arlington—Late yesterday, the Arizona Supreme Court declined to review the Arizona Court of Appeals’ March 2009 decision in Green v. Garriott upholding Arizona’s Corporate Tuition Tax Credit Program, thus ending a legal challenge to the program that funds scholarships for low- and middle-income children who transfer from public to private schools…
September 28th, 2009 · Blog, For Donors, For Parents, For Schools
APESF is excited to announce that we have launched a new website with new and updated features! Feel free to look around. In addition, we’re also implementing a few changes to our program. Read below for details:
Click here for a flyer!