SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3/Edited News Release) - Missouri K-12 students tin proceed receiving scholarships successful 2023 done the MOScholars programme done six caller acquisition assistance organizations.
Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick announced the six EAOs connected Monday. According to a property release, an EAO is simply a nonprofit enactment that, aft support by the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office, tin person qualified contributions from individuals and businesses to found MOScholars assistance accounts for qualified Missouri students.
The recently certified EAOs are:
- ACSI Children’s Tuition Fund
- Agudath Israel of Missouri
- Bright Futures Fund
- Herzog Tomorrow Foundation
- The Missouri District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
- Today and Tomorrow Educational Foundation
The Missouri treasurer’s bureau tin certify up to 10 EAOs per year, with nary much than six having their main spot of concern successful immoderate of the following: Greene County, Jackson County, St. Charles County, St. Louis County, oregon St. Louis City.
During a Springfield quality league this summer, Fitzpatrick said the MOScholars programme is important for lower-income families.
“A batch of radical cannot spend to prime up and determination to different schoolhouse district, they can’t spend to money a backstage acquisition for their child,” Fitzpatrick said. “This is the archetypal accidental those families volition person to person backing successful a signifier of a assistance and springiness them the enactment to instrumentality their kid to a antithetic school.”
Fitzpatrick said the programme gives families options for schooling truthful children tin find the close fit.
Since the programme launched successful July, astir 1,000 Missouri students person received scholarships. All applications to beryllium certified arsenic an EAO were approved.
The MOSchoalrs programme was passed by Missouri lawmakers successful 2021 and provides authorities taxation credits for contributions to approved, non-profit Educational Assistance Organizations (EAOs). These EAOs usage the contributions to grant scholarships to Missouri students with Individual Education Plans (IEPs) and students surviving successful low-income households.
You tin larn much astir the MOSchoarls Program here.
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