Scholarship tax credit

At the start of the 2014–2015 school year, fourteen states had scholarship tax credit programs.

[2] On April 4, 2011, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld Arizona's Personal Tax Credits for School Tuition Organizations program in Arizona Christian School Tuition Organization v.

[3] The plaintiffs challenged that the use of tax credit scholarships to send children to religious schools violates the establishment clause.

Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, explained that tax credits are not a form of government spending, and that donations to scholarship organizations are voluntary.

[5] As of September 2, 2014[6] Children raised in the foster care system of various states are not provided the funding for school choice.