News
School choice news, for the people running the school
ESA windows, voucher program changes, and the new federal scholarship tax credit — reported for school operators, not for advocates. Every date is read from the program's own published rules and cited, and every story ends on what it changes about the school's own work. We make school software, so read us with that in mind — and check the sources at the foot of each story.
Arizona ·
Arizona's ESA stays as it is: Prop 212 falls short of the ballot, and Prop 145 falls with it
The state Supreme Court kept both ESA measures off the November ballot on the same day — one for signatures, one for stuffing too much into a single question. For a school with ESA families, that is quiet good news: the income cap and the new program mandates Prop 212 carried are off the table, your funded families stay funded, and the rules you run on today are the rules for this school year.
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Deadlines ·
ESA deadlines this fall: Indiana closes September 1, Ohio prorates after October 14, Texas re-checks the roster October 1
Fall is when a missed window stops being a date and becomes missing tuition. These are the deadlines between now and January that decide whether a funded student's money arrives — and in two of these states, the school is the one who files.
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Federal school choice ·
The federal scholarship tax credit starts January 1, 2027 — and 30 states are in
For the first time there is a federal school-choice program. The money will not come to your school directly, your state had to opt in, and the useful work this fall is calendars and relationships — not fundraising. Here is the whole mechanism, sourced.
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Texas ·
Texas's education freedom accounts paid their first installments — October 1 is the school's date now
A billion-dollar program that did not exist a year ago is now real money in school bank accounts. From here, the dates that matter are not application dates — they are the payment gates, and they belong to the school office.
Read the storyThe reference behind the news
News tells you what changed. The state guides carry the full picture — what a small private school must file, keep, and report in each of 8 states, with each state's school-choice program terms, every requirement cited to its statute.