A newly enacted federal scholarship program provides governors with an opportunity to expand educational opportunities in their states without reducing public school funding. However, the program comes with one catch: Governors must proactively opt their states into the tax credit scholarship program.

The new program offers taxpayers a dollar-for-dollar tax credit of up to $1,700 annually for donations to organizations that award scholarships. Scholarships can be used for private school tuition, educational technology, after-school costs and tutoring. Private donations fund scholarships, so no state or local education funds are touched. Instead, scholarship funds flow directly from donors to scholarship-granting organizations, providing new education dollars rather than reducing or redire

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