Posted 9:13 AM by Susan Darst Williams

SCHOOL CHOICE PROPONENTS
URGE INCENTIVES FOR TUITION ASSISTANCE SCHOLARSHIPS

Next week is School Choice Week! Woo hoo! Here's an on-point newsletter from Nebraskans For School Choice. Click the link in the lower right-hand corner:

http://www.nebraskansforschoolchoice.org/

The best thing for Nebraska education would be to start loosening up the death grip of the government and union monopoly, and inspire some innovation and competition from the private sector.

The best way to do that is to get some incentives and inducements in place to get some much-needed capital into the in-baskets of the private school community.

And the best way to do THAT is to pass a tuition assistance scholarship law in the Nebraska Unicameral. That would spur individuals, foundations and nonprofits to donate money to offset tuition for low-income students to attend private schools.

Nebraskans For School Choice has a new newsletter out that has the key state senators' contact information, and a fervent plea for you to push for this much-needed change in our ed landscape.

Labels: proposed law to get needy kids into private schools in Nebraska, school choice in Nebraska, tuition assistance in Nebraska