New Scholarships Tax Credit Brochure Released! —
A new Education Improvement Scholarships Tax Credit law allows individual and corporate donors to take a 65 percent state tax credit on their charitable donation to qualified scholarship foundations -- on top of the current state and federal tax deduction. Those scholarship foundations, in turn, provide scholarships for the children of low- and working-class families to attend the private school of their choice. The Thomas Jefferson Institute has produced a new brochure describing the programn to potential tax credit supporters. Read It Here!
February 2013
The Jefferson Journal: This Year in Virginia, New Choices. —
Virginia this week joined the rest of the nation in celebrating "National School Choice Week" from a special position: As one of states with an education choice program offering new options to students in need of them. Read It Here!
November 2012
The Jefferson Journal: The 'Catch-22' of Virginia Charter Schools —
Joseph Heller's novel had nothing on Virginia’s charter school law. In the Catch-22 of Virginia charter schools, only schools that look like traditional public schools can be approved. In which case, they are not innovative and need not be approved. Read It Here!
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