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Education News for Monday, July 10

School choice spreads with tax credits – In 2001, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge battled with Democratic state legislators to create a corporate scholarship tax credit program to bring the state’s families school choice. (more)

Ohio plan would put flexibility in school funding – Ohio’s school-funding system is a mess. In recent years, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled it unconstitutional four times, levies have become an annual event in many districts and charter schools are pitted against each other and against districts for access to state dollars. (more)

To retain students for D.C. voucher program, higher income rule sought – Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the District, intends to introduce legislation Thursday that would increase the income guidelines to 300 percent of the federal poverty line.. (more)

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UPDATE:

City Adds Funds For Catholic, Jewish Schools – The New York City government is starting quietly to fund local parochial schools. The City Council is allocating $1 million of taxpayer money in this year’s budget to purchase school buses for Jewish schools. Last year, the City Council paid $2.5 million to put computers in Jewish and Catholic schools. (more)

Plan would put flexibility in school funding – Ohio’s school-funding system is a mess. In recent years, the Ohio Supreme Court has ruled it unconstitutional four times, levies have become an annual event in many districts and charter schools are pitted against each other and against districts for access to state dollars (more)

To Retain Students, Higher Income Rule Sought-A senator on the D.C. Appropriations subcommittee plans to introduce legislation to increase the income guidelines for the District’s federally funded school voucher program to prevent hundreds of students from being forced out of it in the next three years, officials said. (more)

School choice offers way to improve Ariz. schools – This year, the Tucson Unified School District received more funding per student than ever before, about $8,400. Even with inflation, spending per pupil in Arizona public schools has tripled since the 1960s.  (more)

Schools targeting consumers – On a one-mile stretch of Elida Road, three large billboards await families thinking about where to send their children to school this fall. They might choose Heir Force Academy and the “free school supplies” the billboard reminds people of, or Quest Academy, which claims on its billboard “A Passion for Teaching.” (more)

Alison Lake: Fostering education stability – Thousands of miles away in Arizona, a small but significant program hatched here in Maryland became law in June. But Maryland’s 11,500 foster care children, 7,000 of whom are in Baltimore City, have yet to benefit from this program designed by The Maryland Public Policy Institute. (more)