by (in alphabetical order) John Garrett Clawson, Reynaldo de la Garza, Victoria Keller, Sarah Pollock, Laurie Roberts,
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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 diverted from the school and placed in an account. Parents can then access and use the funds for a variety of public and private education services.
While the proposed bill SB 1178 ultimately failed to pass in the Committee on Public Education in the Texas House of Representatives in 2015, SB 1178 outlines the bill outlined a proposed ESA program that may be modeled in subsequent proposals. In 2016, the 85th Texas Senate was tasked with investigating the academic success and fiscal impact of similar programs in other states, including Arizona, Mississippi, Nevada, and Tennessee (Patrick, 2016). Florida also has several school choice programs, including tax credit scholarships, in addition to the Personal Learning Scholarship Account program.
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A summary of the evidence on vouchers is given on a separate page.
References
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 original bill – http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/50leg/1r/bills/sb1553h.pdf
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DeForrest, Mark Edward. "An Overview and Evaluation of State Blaine Amendments: Origins, Scope, and First Amendment Concerns." Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 26.2 (2003): 551-626.