President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” includes a novel federal tax provision that would help nationalize school vouchers for private education tuition and home schooling programs.
The legislation that already cleared the House includes a proposal that resembles the Educational Choice for Children Act, a wide-ranging bill introduced this year by Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE), Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT), and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) in both chambers.
It would leverage the federal tax code to provide vouchers for students to attend private secular or religious schools, including in Democratic-led states where voters have rejected similar initiatives.
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The vouchers would be financed through charitable contributions from individuals to entities known as Scholarship Granting Organizations. In return, donors would receive a full federal tax credit equal to
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