Scholarship Implementation
Learn about the practical implementation of education scholarships and their real-world effects on students, families, and communities.
More than 230,000 students, and counting, awarded Florida education choice scholarships
Less than one month into application season, nearly a quarter of a million Florida students have been awarded scholarships that will allow them to direct public education funding to providers of their choice next school year. Step Up For Students, the organization that administers most of the scholarships and publishes... READ MOREStep Up For Students appoints Gretchen Schoenhaar as new CEO
April 30, 2024 — Step Up For Students, the nation’s largest education choice scholarship funding organization, announced today that Gretchen Schoenhaar has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. Doug Tuthill, who...
READ MOREWyoming now the 16th state giving families the power to direct public education funding
Gov. Mark Gordon signed legislation creating education savings accounts in the Equality State.
READ MOREWyoming lawmakers vote to give public education funding to families
The Cowboy State could soon become the 16th state placing public education funding in the hands of parents.
READ MOREAlabama joins the ranks of states giving public education funding directly to famlies
With the stroke of Gov. Kay Ivey’s pen, Alabama is now the 15th state to put public education funding in the hands of families. The Yellowhammer State joins 13 states...
READ MORE‘Keep Katie’s hands off of my future’
Arizona ESA families rallied at the state capitol Monday to oppose Gov. Katie Hobbs’ proposals to “reform” the Empowerment Scholarship Account program. Lawmakers who spoke at the event pronounced the...
READ MOREGovernor Hobbs to Arizona: Choice for me but not for thee
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs, who fruitlessly called for a repeal of Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Account during her first year in office, is following up with a plan in her second...
READ MOREEvery waitlist is a policy failure
Harvard professor Roland Fryer took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal recently to urge lawmakers and advocates to reinvigorate the drive to Milton Friedman’s vision of a dynamic...
READ MORENew Hampshire judge rejects teachers union challenge to Education Freedom Accounts Program
The story: As legal challenges to the wave of newly adopted education choice laws wind through the courts, a judge just handed New Hampshire a big win. On Tuesday, the...
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Perun, the rock star of Australian defense economists doing awesome hour-plus hour PowerPoint presentations on YouTube, recently did two such presentations on “game-changing” weapon systems in the ongoing Ukraine-Russian war....
READ MOREGo Down, Moses
Go down, Moses Way down in Egypt’s land Tell old Pharaoh Let my people go The Texas House of Representatives closed out the 3rd special session by filing a deeply...
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