from CAPE
Federal school choice legislation that passed out of a House committee last year has been reintroduced on Capitol Hill, this time with potential prospects for success. The Educational Choice for Children Act is based on tax credit scholarship programs that have had considerable success at the state level. Under the bill, private donors would contribute to scholarship-granting organizations, which would use those privately donated funds to give scholarships to low and middle-income families for private school tuition. The federal government would then give a tax credit to the donor.
WFIS is exploring how this federal bill would impact private schools in Washington State.
The new congressional leadership supports this legislation. President Trump has said he would sign it, and Vice President Vance was a Senate cosponsor.
