The Mississippi Department of Education issued the following statement.
The
Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) announced plans today to
award Education Scholarship Accounts (ESA) for the 2019-20 school year.
Established by the Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act of 2015, the ESA program provides
scholarships to parents
of students with disabilities who want to remove their child from a
public school to seek educational services elsewhere. ESA recipients
are eligible to be reimbursed up to $6,765
in 2019-20 for the cost of private educational services.
The
legislative appropriation for 2019-20 provides for approximately 695
ESA accounts for the 2019-20 school year. The MDE anticipates that 415
ESAs will be used by students returning from the 2018-19
school year. Applicants who would like to be considered for the remaining 280 ESAs must apply by June 20, 2019.
ESAs
will be awarded on a first come, first served basis and priority will
be given to families that have previously submitted an eligible
application but have not yet been awarded an ESA.
Letters
will be mailed to new ESA recipients upon approval, no later than July
1, 2019. Applications received after June 20 will be reviewed and
considered for approval on a rolling basis in accordance
with the ESA law, until such time as 50% of the enrollment cap is
reached.
To participate in the ESA program:
- the applicant must be a Mississippi resident;
- the student must have had an active Individualized Education Program (IEP) within five years of the date of application; and
- the parent must sign an agreement to adhere to the rules of participation.
Parents
who are accepted into the program will be reimbursed quarterly after
submission of a reimbursement request with proper documentation of
expenses incurred. Funds can also be paid quarterly
directly to an educational service provider if approved by the parent.
9 comments:
More libtard handouts to buy votes. This scheme to fraudulently spend my hard earned tax dollars deserves to be exposed. Why aren't the CL and other local news outlets reporting on this swamp?
" Funds can also be paid quarterly directly to an educational service provider if approved by the parent."
HAHA
I disagree with 12:04. This is an opportunity for the family to recoup some of their taxes spent on an educational system that has failed them. And, no, I do not have a special needs student.
2:08, keep holding your hand out and see where you end up. Eventually you have to pull yourself up by the bootstraps and take some personal responsibility for your own failures.
I disagree with 12:04, and I have a special needs student. However, I cannot take advantage of this, because she is privately schooled. My child is thriving out of the public school environment, but my child's school is not eligible for these funds. So I'm losing two ways from the wallet!
Ultimately this is going to open the door for vouchers, and more private schools are going to pop up because of it.
This is a way to take public dollars headed towards public schools and redirect them to private businesses. This is no "libtard" conspiracy. Quite the opposite.
Agreed 1:29....no libtard conspiracy. A rich redneck conspiracy? Yep. To pay off friends. It's just a good ole' boy slush fund. The legislature screams poverty for roads, bridges, education across the board, but they always have a little pocket change that serves the connected.
My child has the special need of not having to sit in a room full of violent and disruptive cradle-to-the-grave welfare recipients mimicking primates all day and prevent anyone else who has an IQ above 75 from learning.
Can I get some help with that?
That pocket reserved for the well connected is VERY DEEP.
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