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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaelx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Key Points After a quarter century of state-based advocacy efforts, the school chOiCe m has only rmanaged to serve less than 1.2 percent of total K--i 2 enroi:ment. SConservautves have long been skeptical of Gedera i!nvolvernent in any asoect of- educa- tion and may raise several objections to any new federal initiative, & One Proposal for a federal tax credit, however, effectively corsicers consenVat ive con- Cerns and, it molernented, could quickly triole the nu rnber of students served by prvate school choice, A major legal victory in the US Supreme Court and a string of significant legislative victories in statehouses across the nation made 2022 a land- mark year for school choice. Still, the reality in Airerica today is that education freedom remains elusive for tens of millions of K-12 students and their families. After over a quarter century of state- based advocacy campaigns, 65 programs in 31 states have been established, serving more than 6oo,ooo students. Yet this represents only 14 per-- cent of total private school enrollment and less than L2 percent of total'K--12 enrollment. The sad truth is that education freedom contin- ues to be a reality primarily for tipper-income families. While some new choice programs, such as Arizona's Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, provide substantial financial resources, too many of the programs established to date do not provide sufficient capital to unlock the potential that so many early school choice proponents saw for the movement. Although school choice proponents tend to be skeptics of federal involvement, we believe that bringing federal financial resources to bear could be the game changer that the school choice move- ment has been waiting for-anc that it can be done effectively and responsibly. An excellent effort toward this end is the Edu- cational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), which was Introduced in summer 022 in Congress and which House Republicans named as a top priority in their education agenda in 202. The ECCA would provide vast additional financial resources without usurping the proper state and local guy- erinent roles for education governance and poli- cymaking. And there is every expectation it will soon be reintroduced in the next session of the new Congress, which convenes in January, Here's how it would work. The ECCA would amend the Internal Revenue Code to provide up to $m billion in tax credits annually against federal individual income and corporate tax liability for making charitable donations to not-for-profit scholarship granting organizations (SGus SGOs would then fund scholarships for K--ia students to pay for tuition and other eligible education expenses. Annual credits for individual donors would be limited to 10 percent of adjusted gross income or

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