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AFCGF supports the creation and expansion of school voucher, corporate tax credit, and other school choice programs. The organization is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, is designated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and receives its funding through private individual and foundation donations. [2]
For example, Texas offers a wide range of property tax exemptions to residents ages 65 and older, including an exemption from school district and county taxes and an additional $10,000 residence ...
Dan Patrick also announced that school choice was the Texas Senate’s top priority. School choice was a legislative priority of Abbott’s and Patrick’s in the reg
In the 2009 and 2010 elections, school-choice-supporting Republicans gained seven governors’ seats. 12 states expanded school choice in 2011. Newly Republican states enacted half of that year's school-choice legislation. [5] In 2011 Wisconsin opened the Milwaukee program to all city students and introduced a similar plan in Racine.
The largest property tax exemption is the exemption for registered non-profit organizations; all 50 states fully exempt these organizations from state and local property taxes with a 2009 study estimating the exemption's forgone tax revenues range from $17–32 billion per year. [53] Exemptions can be quite substantial.
In the District 121 race in which Marc LaHood successfully unseated Rep. Steve Allison, R-San Antonio, Abbott and the AFC fund spent $1.05 million, compared with $340,609 from the Charles Butt PAC ...
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The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.