Supreme Court Upholds Arizona Tuition Tax Credit Program!
Arizona school children and their parents won a major victory in the United States Supreme Court today. In a 5-4 decision, the court upheld Arizona’s Scholarship Tax Credit Program that enables thousands of families to send their children to the school of their choice.
The program allows Arizonans to receive a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for donations to School Tuition Organizations (STO), which then allocate scholarships to deserving students. The more than 50 nonprofit STOs in Arizona award scholarships annually to about 27,000 students. Continue reading
Qualification Process & Monthly Distributions
Did you know that the AZ Tuition Tax Credit Law was recently amended?
Recent changes to the law, while positive, have mandated new operational requirements for School Tuition Organizations like APESF to ensure the integrity of this vital program and proper stewardship of public funds. Among these changes is a requirement that all School Tuition Organizations must consider financial need as part of their application review and scholarship award process. Donor recommendations are still permitted but cannot be the only basis for scholarship awards. Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court likely to vindicate legality of Arizona school choice program
School choice is back before the U.S. Supreme Court today with Garriott v. Winn, a lawsuit that involves a challenge to Arizona’s 13-year-old scholarship tax credit program. The program funds more than 27,000 scholarships for students to attend private schools. The state authorizes an income tax credit of up to $500 for individual contributions, and $1,000 for married couples, to privately operated School Tuition Organizations. In turn, these organizations award scholarships to cover private-school tuitions. Continue reading
You’re Invited: The Faces of School Choice Press Conference
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
1:30 PM
Arizona House Lawn
1700 West Washington
Phoenix, AZ
Tomorrow: Advocates Defend School Choice Before the U.S. Supreme Court
Washington, D.C. (November 2, 2010) – School choice will again take center stage in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, November 3, at 10 AM EDT as the constitutionality of a scholarship tax credit program in Arizona is argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. Continue reading
New Study Shows Arizona Tax Credits Serve Low- and Moderate-Income Families
Click here to read the article at the Institute for Justice. Continue reading
Waiting for Superman
GOLDWATER INSTITUTE DAILY – OCTOBER 7, 2010
Read the online version of this Daily Email here.
Hollywood film asks the right questions about what’s wrong with public education
by Matthew Ladner, Ph.D.
Hell has officially frozen over: someone from the Goldwater Institute is urging you to go see a film by the director of Al Gore’s global warming movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Davis Guggenheim’s new documentary,Waiting for Superman, makes a compelling case for sweeping reform of the American K-12 education system. Continue reading
School Choice Yearbook 2009-2010
The 2009-2010 Alliance for School Choice award-winning, flagship publication, the School Choice Yearbook, is now available. To download your copy and discover all of the data, trends, and research regarding America’s 18 school voucher and scholarship tax credit programs, click here or visitwww.SchoolChoiceYearbook.com Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Appeal of Anti-School-Choice 9th Circuit Decision
Education Choice Advocates Hope Court Will Reverse Ninth Circuit, Declare Tax Credit Program Constitutional
Washington, D.C. (May 24, 2010) -
Supporters of school choice programs that provide children with educational opportunity will once again have their day in court—in front of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Court decided today that it would hear an appeal to a Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that declared an Arizona school choice program unconstitutional. Continue reading
