SEATTLE — Even as President Donald Trump’s so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” reduced funds for public schools, it also introduced a tax credit scholarship program that could potentially bring billions into the nation’s K-12 schools, albeit primarily through private schools.

The program would allow individual Americans to donate up to $1,700 to nonprofits and get a dollar-to-dollar tax break on their federal income taxes. The nonprofit would then dole out the money it raised in the form of scholarships to students attending private or religious schools. The funds also could go toward a program run by a public school.

This sea change in school choice history could hit soon, as states decide to opt in or out of a program historically championed by red states.

Calling education “our paramo

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