<p>Does your state provide any funding for your child to attend a private school?</p>
<p>Massachusetts:<br>
a - Under mass real estate tax law, educational institutions are exempt from RE tax.
b - Special needs kids can get unlimited money and transportation.<br>
c - smart kids - nothing.</p>
<p>Vermont
Vermont has a very quiet voucher program that is funding students in Western Mass private pre-preps and Preps (Eaglebrook, Bement, Berkshire, Charlemont, Deerfield, NMH, Stoneleigh Burnham, etc.)</p>
<p>Using a state-wide school cost formula, parents a choice: the students can attend a nearby public ; that public will receive $11,500 next year as tuition with transportation. Or parents can designate in-state or out-of-state private or public. </p>
<p>Washington DC
Did I hear that DC just canceled it voucher program?</p>
<p>What is the situation in your state? What do you wish it were?</p>
<p>Where did you get the $ 11,500 figure>? I would love to send the link on to my family living in Vt.(Burlington) with children:)
Did you know that if the school has a religious bent to it you cannot get the money? Separation of Church and State. I wonder if this would include BS that still make kids go to some kind of religious service like SPS or Salisbury?</p>
<p>$11,500 from parents of student in MA prep - verified with another town. Twin River school district, on the Mass/Vt border, is voting on May 27 to close their (falling down) high school to allow students to tuition out to better schools in the area. </p>
<p>RE: post 1 above, if an educational institution is exempt from taxes under federal law, I would think the state can not tax either - 501(c) (3)- applies to religious or not- churches and other houses of worship don’t pay RE tax either to my knowledge. </p>
<p>As to assistance, none for tuition in NJ. However, private school students can receive a small transportation subsidy if their local town provides local transportation, and not to the private if the private is within a certain mileage of the local town (I’m not sure if it is 20 miles but it is not unlimited.) This is for any school - religious or not. Also, the private school can borrow books from the local school district that it is in under some circumstances. My D’s previous school did this for some subjects, but the current one wants its own choices of books.</p>
<p>Vermont: School choice or what we call “tuitioning” varies by town. If a town does not have a high school (or elementary or middle), the town can do one of the following:</p>
<p>some towns have formed union districts and direct students there (no choice)
some towns direct their students to another town’s school (no choice)
some towns pay tuition directly to the school of the parents’ choice. No religious schools allowed, but the school may be in or out of state. Tuition amount is determined by town with the state’s approval.</p>