House Republicans are pushing a measure that would cut federal funding for D.C.'s public school system and pour more dollars into the city’s private school voucher program, the latest of many attempts by the GOP to broaden private school access.
This latest intervention targets the federal Scholarships for Opportunity and Results — or SOAR — Act. The decades-old measure provides D.C. with money that has historically been split evenly between the city’s traditional public school system, charter campuses and Opportunity Scholarship Program that gives vouchers to low-income families to send their children to private schools.Now, however, Republicans want to increase the voucher program’s share from $17.5 million to $26.
Most of the students — more than 30 percent — who used vouchers during the 2021-2022 school year lived in Ward 7. The average annual income of the families across the city who participated was $21,830.D.C.'s voucher program was created in 2004, a testing ground for what some lawmakers hoped would be a national model.
used their voucher dollars to attend schools that were unaccredited or were in unconventional settings, such as a family-run K-12 school operating out of a storefront.
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