Fact Sheet
Record Tax Credit Scholarship Waiting List Shows Growing Demand for Education Options
Summary
- Pennsylvania scholarship organizations awarded a record 85,570 K–12 scholarships through the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) in the 2022-23 school year.
- The average 2022–23 scholarship amount was $2,613 for EITC and $2,705 for OSTC.
- In 2022–23, K–12 students in Pennsylvania submitted 164,549 scholarship applications, the highest on record. Unfortunately, nearly one in two applications, almost 80,000 student scholarship applications, went unfunded due to arbitrary program caps.
- State lawmakers must create new funding paths to access school choice options, such as Lifeline Scholarships, to help the 48,588 denied OSTC applicants assigned to failing schools.