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But there no longer are income limits for the Opportunity Scholarship program. Now a family’s income will only determine whether they’ll receive between $3,360 and $7,468 per child for the ...
The funding would clear a wait list of more than 52,000 families — the majority of whom would not have been eligible before the program’s income limits were removed. The veto override vote on ...
The General Assembly lifted the income eligibility limits this year, resulting in a record 71,956 new applications for an Opportunity Scholarship. It’s unknown how many of those applicants are ...
Until this year, only families making up to 200% of the income required for a federally subsidized school meal could get an Opportunity Scholarship. That would equal an annual income of up to ...
In 2004, Congress enacted the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provided scholarships to 2000 low-income students. In 2008, students came from families with an average income of $22,736, approximately 107 percent of the federal poverty level for a family of four. [12]
Roughly $463 million is appropriated to the Opportunity Scholarship program. The removal of income limits for families drove up interest, and about 55,000 were waiting to get into the school of ...
School Choice Scholarship Program 2012 85% 300% Poverty Oklahoma: Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarships 2011 50% 300% Free and Reduced Lunch federal eligibility guidelines Pennsylvania: Educational Improvement Tax Credit 2001 75%/90% $60,000 Household Income Pennsylvania: Educational Opportunity Educational Opportunity Scholarship 2012
The Affordable Care Act’s chief aim is to extend coverage to people without health insurance. One of the 2010 law’s primary means to achieve that goal is expanding Medicaid eligibility to more people near the poverty level. But a crucial court ruling in 2012 granted states the power to reject the Medicaid expansion.