The Trump administration will back a federal tax credit for individual and corporate donations to private-school scholarship programs, as Education Secretary Betsy DeVos works to jump-start a moribund push for her signature issue of school choice. The idea for a similar federal tax credit was pushed in the first year of the administration as part of the broader overhaul of the tax code. The tax credits are meant to advance school choice without directly sending tax dollars to private schools. DeVos has promoted school choice — an idea that includes private-school vouchers, home schooling and public charter schools — for many years. The official transcript of his remarks read: “To help support working parents, the time has come to pass School Choice for Americans’ children.”

Source: Washington Post February 28, 2019 00:22 UTC