Education

Scholarship Organizations Bring Educational Freedom to Thousands

  • Colleen Hroncich
  • June 11, 2018

Pennsylvania’s tax credit scholarship programs are lifelines for thousands of children around the state. At best, these children would be stuck in schools that aren’t meeting their education needs. At…

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Tax Credit Scholarships: Pennsylvania is Falling Behind

  • Colleen Hroncich
  • May 23, 2018

Tax credit scholarships are one of the fastest growing school choice options. These programs allow businesses or individuals to receive a tax credit for donations to approved K-12 scholarship…

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Education

Nine Irrefutable Facts About Education Savings Accounts

  • Marc LeBlond
  • May 17, 2018

Children deserve an education that fits their unique needs. It’s time to bring education savings accounts to Pennsylvania and make that dream a reality. How do they work? Is there…

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Education

Education Tax Credit Escalator Basics

  • Marc LeBlond
  • May 4, 2018

The Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) and Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) programs have offered a lifeline to Pennsylvania students, delivering more than 570,000 scholarships since the programs began. Last…

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Education

Answering Questions About ESAs

  • April 20, 2018

Education Savings Accounts (ESA) allow parents to customize and personalize their child's education. With an ESA, parents withdraw their child from the local public school and instead receive money from…

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Empowering Parents of Students with Special Needs

  • Colleen Hroncich
  • April 10, 2018

Friends thought Dorothy Famiano was nuts when she decided to adopt two toddlers with special needs. She didn’t listen to the naysayers. Today Nicholas, who is confined to a…

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welfare infographic

  • April 9, 2018

Bipartisan federal welfare reform in 1996 promoted independence by keeping people engaged in the workforce. Healthy adults were limited to 3 months of cash assistance benefits unless they worked 20…

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Education

Scholarship Tax Credits

  • Colleen Hroncich
  • March 14, 2018

Ziva loves school. Yet just a year ago, it was a different story. According to her mother, Jesica, Ziva’s first grade teacher had given up on little Ziva, claiming the…

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Education Choice Boosts Higher Ed Enrollment

  • Marc LeBlond
  • March 7, 2018

Recent studies on voucher programs in Milwaukee, Washington, DC, and Florida once again demonstrate education choice benefits families and taxpayers. Milwaukee A longitudinal study—which tracks individual students over long…

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