The old saying that states are the “laboratories of democracy” was apt in the passing of the new federal school choice law as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill” enacted in early July.

The school choice provisions in this landmark legislation will generate private charitable contributions from individual taxpayers to fund scholarships for children in private, religious, public or charter schools. This legislative design is modeled after nearly two-dozen states with such tax credit donation incentives and precludes potential government entanglement in school autonomy and religious liberty.

The result of this law, effective in January 2027, will mean more private dollars funding scholarships for use in K-12 education, thereby expanding existing opportunities in more than 30 states with sc

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