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Committee prints education opportunity RS to create accounts that let state funds follow qualifying students
Summary
RS 32171 (Idaho Education Opportunity Program) was introduced; it would let a portion of state K–12 funds follow eligible students into education savings accounts for private schools, tutors or personalized plans, with eligibility limits and an estimated fiscal impact.
Representative Lance Clow presented RS 32171, the Idaho Education Opportunity Program (IEOP), a school-choice style proposal that would allow a portion of the state education funding formula to follow qualifying students into an education opportunity account to pay tuition, curriculum, tutors and other enumerated expenses. The sponsor said the program targets low- and moderate-income families; eligibility would generally require prior enrollment in a public school (grades 1–12) or be an entering kindergartner and sets an adjusted gross income cap of $75,000.
Clow described the…
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