The ABCs of School Choice: The Comprehensive Guide to Every Private School Choice Program in America. 2025 Edition

Abstract

This annual publication of "The ABCs of School Choice" is a comprehensive, data-rich guide to every private school choice program in America. This edition of "The ABCs of School Choice" defines each of the six types of school choice: education savings accounts, tax-credit education savings accounts, school vouchers, tax-credit scholarships, refundable tax credits, and individual tax credits and deductions. The guidebook includes an entire spread of charts showing the growth over time of private school choice programs, spending on those programs and student participation in those programs. "The ABCs of School Choice" features a spread for each school choice program that includes the most recent participation, funding and eligibility data as well as information on the program's rules, regulations and legal history. Following a preface by Robert C. Enlow, the President and CEO of EdChoice, contents of this report include: (1) Types of Private School Choice; (2) Other Types of School Choice; (3) School Choice Illustrated; (4) State Index; (5) Education Savings Account Programs; (6) Tax-Credit Education Savings Account Programs; (7) School Voucher Programs; (8) Tax-Credit Scholarship Programs; (9) Refundable Tax Credit Programs; (10) Individual Tax Credit and Deduction Programs; (11) Alaska's Correspondence Study and Student Allotment Program; (12) Program Requirements; (13) Program Guidelines by Program Type; (14) Methodology and Data Sources for Eligibility; (15) Data Sources for Program Profiles; and (16) Legal Challenges.