A national school choice plan is moving forward after a Senate committee included it in a draft of its “big, beautiful” budget bill.
The Senate Finance Committee released its version of the national budget proposal on Monday, which includes $4 billion per year in tax credits for school choice.
The Educational Choice for Children Act, or ECCA, was included in the House budget bill, which passed last month. The Senate committee’s version reduced the annual cap from $5 billion in the House version to $4 billion but removed the 10-year sunset on the program. The two chambers will need to reach a compromise.
The American Federation for Children celebrated “the inclusion of a robust school choice tax credit in legislative text released by the Senate Finance Committee on Monday,” it said in a release. “This law would bring school choice to all 50 states and deliver on (President Donald Trump’s) mission to send education back to the states.”
