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		<title>Businesses get OK to offer scholarships</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:31:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An approved list of ten organizations can now accept scholarship applications from parents of students attending low-performing schools.  The scholarship money will come through the Educational Improvement Tax Credit program. The state Department of Community and Economic Development will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pa. program turns tax credit tactic toward low-achieving schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program is giving businesses an opportunity to obtain tax credits in exchange for donating scholarship money for students to leave low-achieving Pennsylvania schools. Businesses can start submitting online applications on Wednesday to see if they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax-credit program offers new opportunites to families living near low-achieving schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:11:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program, a product of a law signed by Gov. Tom Corbett earlier this month, may alleviate some stress as parents prepare to send their children to school this fall. With this program, some families may be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the Editor &#8211; EITC program &#8220;costing taxpayers?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jul 2012 20:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[posted July 20, 2012 Re: &#8220;It&#8217;s Real Money&#8221; (editorial, July 5) Disappointing was the editorial arguing that the Educational Improvement Tax Credit — a decade-old, bipartisan-supported program that gives children educational options through voluntary business tax credits — &#8220;costs taxpayers.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What School Choice Advocates are Saying about Pennsylvania&#8217;s &#8220;Massive School Choice Victory&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[School choice advocates are weighing in on how the 2012-13 state budget and the Educational Improvement Tax Credit will affect the Pennsylvania school systems. Read what they have to say: http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/policyblog/detail/what-school-choice-advocates-are-saying-about-pennsylvanias-massive-school-choice-victory]]></description>
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		<title>Pennsylvania Legislators Boost School Choice for Students in Worst Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new law allows families to send their children to a public or private school of their choice if they are currently attending one of Pennsylvania&#8217;s worst-performing public schools. This program is should help minimize academic failures and place children in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DCED announces changes to Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changes to the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) program were anounced yesterday. Some of the changes include staggered application dates and a larger budget. This allows more school districts to participate and business to contribute to scholarship organizations. To learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WINNERS AND LOSERS: In budget deal, who got things done and how? And who didn’t.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2012 14:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Reprinted with Permission from Capitolwire. By Peter L. DeCoursey Bureau Chief Capitolwire HARRISBURG (July 2) – As we wrote Sunday morning, the biggest winner in the 2012 budget deal was Gov. Tom Corbett. He succeeded in major changes that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>REACH Alliance Applauds Gov. Corbett, State Legislature for their Commitment to School Choice</title>
		<link>http://www.paschoolchoice.org/2012/06/reach-alliance-applauds-gov-corbett-state-legislature-for-their-commitment-to-school-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2012 03:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REACH Alliance Applauds Gov. Corbett, State Legislature for their Commitment to School Choice HB 761 Creates Education Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program, Expands EITC &#160; (Harrisburg, PA – June 30 2012) – House Bill 761, the Omnibus Tax Reform Code [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget proposal offers boost for school choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press reports in the Tribune Review that the upcoming state budget would increase the funds available to the existing EITC program and create a scholarship program that would assist school children in the lowest-performing schools in the state. [...]]]></description>
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