Disabled/Displaced Pupils Grant Program (”Lexie’s Law”)

Effective August 26, 2009

A.R.S §§43-1184 provides a corporate income tax credit for donations made to School Tuition Organizations in order to provide tuition grants to qualified disabled or displaced students.

  • A qualified student means a student who has been either:
  1. Placed in foster care pursuant to Title 8, Chapter 5 at any time before the student graduates from high school or obtains a general equivalency diploma.
  2. Identified as having a disability under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act or identified by a school district as a child with a disability as defined in §15-761 or a child with a disability who is eligible to receive services from a school district under §15-763.
  • New applicants to the program must have attended a public primary or secondary school for at least the first one hundred days of the prior academic year.

STEP 1: Get Pre-Certified with the Arizona Department of Revenue

Students who are interested in receiving educational scholarships or tuition grants for disabled or displaced students from a School Tuition Organization must first complete an Application for Eligibility with the Arizona Department of Revenue to be placed on a list of qualified students.

PLEASE NOTE: Students who qualified and received scholarships or grants from the Arizona Department of Education for the 2008/2009 school year do not need to apply for eligibility. If you want to confirm that your student is already on the qualified student list, please contact Karen Jacobs at (602) 716-6923.

STEP 2: Apply for a Grant with APESF

Please download and complete the Disabled/Displaced Scholarship Application and return to the following address with all required documentation:

Arizona Private Education Scholarship Fund
14550 N. Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd. #100
Scottsdale, AZ 85260

*APESF is currently developing a plan to raise funds for this program. Once there is funding available, applicants will be contacted with further information.

Pursuant to A.R.S §43-1184 (L), a School Tuition Organization may provide scholarships/grants to qualified students in an amount not to exceed the cost of tuition for the student to attend a qualified school or 90% of state aid that that would otherwise be computed for the student as provided in Title 15, Chapter 9, Article 5, whichever is less.

A School Tuition Organization may award any amount of scholarship or grant up to the eligible amount allowed by statute. Please note that students are not guaranteed a scholarship or grant.

A qualified school is defined as a nongovernmental primary school, secondary school, or preschool for handicapped students. The school must be located in Arizona and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, handicap, familial status or national origin and must satisfy the requirements prescribed by law for private schools in Arizona on January 1, 2009.

For questions regarding this program, please contact us by email or call 480.699.8911.