The broad outlines are typical: The state will offer money to any parents wiling to pull their child out of public education and shop for education on their own
Senate Bill 935The broad outlines are typical. The state will offer money to any parents wiling to pull their child out of public education and shop for education on their own. The bill does limit eligibility to families under 200% of the poverty level.
There are a few guardrails in this program that not all ESA programs include. Parents are required to provide their child with instruction in English/language arts, writing, math, social studies and science; not all ESA programs require any particular courses be covered. The program also calls for random audits of some parents annually, which may not seem like a very tight watch to keep on taxpayer money, but it’s more than some states require.
As is usually the case, the ESA funds are made up of the money that the state would have given to the student’s home public school. However, should the student decide to drop out of the voucher program and go back to public school, any left over money will go back to the state program account. Once the public school loses that money, they never get it back, even if they get back the student that the money was supposedly following.
Other portions of the bill are more transparent about the intent of the program than some other states have been.public tax dollars to private religious schools , and private Christian schools are written directly into this bill. Any private schools that wish to be part of the program must be certified by the South Carolina Association of Christian Schools, the South Carolina Independent Schools Association, the Palmetto Association of Independent Schools, Cognia, or the National Council for Private School Accreditation.
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