Versions Compared

Key

  • This line was added.
  • This line was removed.
  • Formatting was changed.
by (in alphabetical order) John Garrett Clawson, Reynaldo de la Garza, Victoria Keller, Sarah Pollock, Laurie Roberts, 
Started: September 6, 2016. Last updated: September 20, 2016

Table of Contents

Definition

Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) are a /wiki/spaces/edpolicy/pages/27033626 mechanism that puts state funding for educational expenses in the hands of parents. Funds are calculated based on the amount the state would have spent on a given student in their public school. That money is placed in a debit account, from which parents can access and use the funds for a variety of public and private education services.

...

O'Dell, Rob, and Yvonne W. Sanchez. "State Money Helping Wealthier Arizona Kids Go to Private Schools." The Arizona Republic. Last modified July 7, 2016. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/education/2016/02/23/state-money-helping-wealthier-arizona-kids-go-private-schools/80303730/.

“School Choice in America,” EdChoice, last modified Oct. 28, 2016, http://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/school-choice-in-america.

S.B. 1178, Texas 84th Cong. (2015).

S.B. 2695, Mississippi 114th Cong. (2015).

S.B. 302, Nevada 302nd Cong. (2015).

S.B. 431, Tennessee 431st Cong. (2015).


Arizona. Senate. 2013. reg. sess. Phoenix. SB 1363 Fiscal Note. Schimpp, Steve. 2013.

...