State Foundations: Supporting Privatization
Arizona:
AZ School Tuition Organization Association
This organization provides scholarships for disadvantaged and disabled students to attend private schools. They also provide information and advocacy regarding legislations around school choice.
Florida:
Step Up For Students was created to help alleviate the enormous educational challenges faced by children in Florida who live in poverty. The program provides Corporate Tax Credit Scholarships to students in K-12 who come from low-income families.
Georgia:
Center for an Educated Georgia
The Center for an Educated Georgia (CEG) works to ensure that the best educational opportunities and policies exist for all Georgia students. They do this through advocacy and policy development.
Illinois:
School choice Illinois analyzes, dissects, and distills important and relevant policy information that has the most potential to increase educational options for children. Our goal is to create an environment for sustainable policy change.
Indiana:
School Choice Indiana, Inc. is a non-partisan, statewide organization dedicated to the principle that providing parents with real choices in the education of their children will improve educational outcomes and improve the quality of education, both in private and public schools.
Iowa:
Iowa Alliance for Choice in Education
Its mission is to promote the expansion of school choice for the benefit of Iowa’s children. Its members include parents, educators and nonpublic school administrators from around the state. Iowa ACE operates under the belief that the freedom to choose a “best-fit” school can be life-changing, and that it should be available to a greater number of Iowa families.
Maryland:
BOAST Maryland is a statewide coalition dedicated to ensuring that every K-12 student in Maryland has access to high-quality, diverse, and affordable educational opportunities. We believe that it is imperative to build and sustain an array of elementary and secondary educational opportunities in Maryland, so that every family can secure the best education available for their children. Our mission is to strengthen the partnership between Maryland’s business and education communities, in order to generate new resources and opportunities for public and nonpublic school students and teachers.
Minnesota:
Minnesota Independent School Forum
The work of the Minnesota Independent School Forum (MISF) is primarily focused on serving two key audiences. First and foremost, MISF focuses its efforts on providing leadership and services, such as programming and scholarship funding, to its 36 member high schools.
Missouri:
Children’s Education Alliance of Missouri
Children’s education alliance of Missouri is a non-partisan organization that is committed to educating business and civic leaders throughout the State about the urgent need for improvements to our educational systems and the importance of providing each child with access to a high quality education. This can include choice, merit pay for teachers, transparency, special needs education, and changing the teacher certification process. These reform measures can and will lead to better public schools across the state.
New Jersey:
Excellent Education for Everyone
Excellent Education for Everyone (E3) is a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization devoted to improving urban public education through the powers of parental school choice. E3 promotes school choice in several different ways.. These groups are advocacy, nonpublic choice providers, public interest law firms, and a best practice think tank.
New Mexico:
Educate New Mexico is an independent, non-profit organization established by volunteers to promote and finance excellent educational opportunities for students from low-income families. Our purpose is to assist low-income families with children entering grades K-12 offset the cost of tuition at the school of their choice through a program of tuition assistance. All funding is from private business and charitable and individual contributions.
North Carolina:
Parents for Educational Freedom in NC
To inform parents of the benefits of expanded educational options and empower them to exercise freedom in meeting their children's needs, regardless of race, national origin, income or religion.
Ohio:
The mission of School Choice Ohio (SCO) is to protect and expand children’s educational options through ensuring choice in quality schools and other places of learning, thereby supporting systemic reform of K-12 education across the state. The founders of School Choice Ohio believe that all parents should have the opportunity to choose which school is best for their children, regardless of their level of income.
Pennsylvania:
REACH was founded to coordinate the efforts to pass school choice legislation in Pennsylvania. Since then, REACH has grown into a broad, diverse coalition that includes members from the business community, ethnic and religious organizations, parents, and taxpayer groups. As a non-profit, REACH is governed by an independent board of directors and funded through generous contributions of Pennsylvania citizens, churches, and foundations.
Rhode Island:
The Rhode Island Scholarship Alliance
The Rhode Island Scholarship Alliance (RISA) is the alliance of school choice advocates and Scholarship Granting Organizations (SGOs) working to promote educational opportunities for economically disadvantaged students through the Rhode Island Scholarship tax credit program.
Utah:
Parents for Choice in Education
Parents for Choice in Education is dedicated to ensuring every child has equal access to a quality education by empowering parents, increasing choice, and promoting innovative solutions to Utah’s educational challenges. PCE was founded in 2000 by two public school parents, Doug Holmes and Jordan Clements. It continues to be run by Utah parents, educators, and concerned citizens.
Virginia:
School Choice Virginia is a 501(c)4 organization working to expand educational choices for Virginia families to ensure every child has the opportunity to receive the education that best meets their unique and individual needs. School Choice Virginia is non-partisan and can support specific legislation. In addition, School Choice Virginia will work across to increase awareness of school choice initiatives and to demonstrate to elected leaders on all levels the broad-based support for educational reforms.
Washington D.C.:
The mission of the Washington Scholarship Fund is to expand and improve educational options in Washington, D.C., by enabling low-income District families to have a choice in where they send their children to elementary, middle, and high school — and thereby to fulfill the promise of equal educational opportunity for all.
Wisconsin:
School Choice Wisconsin is a nonprofit organization that seeks to ensure an honest debate about school choice by providing accurate information on the impact of school choice on families, communities, and schools. Headquartered in Milwaukee, home of the nation's largest and oldest voucher program for low-income families, School Choice Wisconsin supports expanded educational options for parents through the use of school vouchers, charter schools, and innovative public-private partnerships.