A school choice program under judicial review in Nevada is also one being considered by Texas lawmakers. Education leaders are learning about education savings accounts and how they would benefit the state. According to Nevada State Sen. Scott Hammond, the author of his state’s 2015 “school choice” law, education savings accounts allow parents to save for the cost of their child’s education. The state transfers 90-percent of the funds the child’s school district would’ve received from the state into that parent’s education savings account. On Wednesday, members of the Senate Education Committee asked Hammond to share how this particular program works. “So, under our state program, you would get $51-hundred, that would distributed quarterly during the school year and you could then spend it on a variety of programs or institutions pre-approved by our state treasury,” Hammond explains. Hammond says those preapproved items could range from the cost of tuition at a private high school to
Source: Texas Public Radio
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