GOP Lawmakers Introduce Universal School Choice

By Adam Wittenberg

Nine GOP Pennsylvania legislators introduced a state House bill last week that would create education savings accounts, or ESAs, called Student Freedom Accounts.

The accounts would be available to students of all income levels since the measure doesn’t list any income restrictions.

The plan appears to borrow best practices from successful school choice programs in other states.

These include usage by homeschool and hybrid school students; the ability for those students to participate in public school sports and activities and some academic classes; and flexibility for parents who enroll their children in private school to use the funds for tuition and related expenses such as transportation, learning materials and programs and enrichment activities.

The legislation also includes language that would allow the program to launch within 60 days of being approved and the state to contract with a third-party provider to administer the Student Freedom Accounts.

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