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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.
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.