Facts and Resources

One-Page Summary of BOAST Maryland Tax Credit.

Full text of the 2011 Maryland General Assemby legislation, House Bill 932.

Full text of the 2011 Maryland General Assemby legislation, Senate Bill 315.

Governor O'Malley's Letter in Support of BOAST. Letter to the chairman of the Senate Budget and Taxation Committee, March 3, 2010.

Tax-Credit Scholarships in Maryland: Forecasting the Fiscal Impact. This 2010 report by the Foundation for Educational Choice states that BOAST could save Maryland taxpayers $267 million.

Sign-up Form for the Online BOAST Network. Print and distribute this sign-up form at school events, teacher conferences, and other meetings.

BOAST Talking Points. Use this helpful fact sheet to prepare for meetings with legislators or businesses.

Visiting the Maryland General Assembly: A Guide for Students and Teachers. Download this guide, which includes lesson plans, class activities, and information about the Maryland General Assembly and the legislative process.

Arizona. The Arizona Corporate School Tuition Organization Tax Credit enables corporations to receive tax credits for contributions to School Tuition Organizations (STOs). Ninety percent of these contributions are used to fund scholarships for students to use at the school of their choice.

Georgia.Created in 2008, the Tuition Tax Credit Scholarship Program provides $50 million in tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to Student Scholarship Organizations. These organizations provide assistance to families that want to send their child(ren) to private schools.

Florida. The Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship Program, also known as the Step Up for Students Scholarship Program, allows corporations to get tax credits up to 75 percent of their state income tax liability when they contribute to a qualified Scholarship Funding Organization.

Indiana. The Indiana School Scholarship Tax Credit Plan, which was passed by the state legislature in June 2009, allocates $2.5 million to provide a 50 percent state tax credit to individuals and businesses for contributions to qualified scholarship programs that benefit low-income students.

Iowa. The Individual School Tuition Organization Tax Credit allows taxpayers to receive a personal income tax credit of 65 percent for donations to School Tuition Organizations (STOs). These organizations must use 90 percent of the contributions for tuition grants for students to attend the school of their choice.

Pennsylvania. Since the creation of Pennsylvania's Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) in 2001, more than 3,600 companies have pledged in excess of $360 million dollars to scholarship and educational improvement programs in the state.

Rhode Island. Created in 2007, the Rhode Island Scholarship Tax Credit is a program that allows businesses to receive a generous tax credit for making contributions that provide economically disadvantaged children with private school tuition scholarships.

Free to Teach: What America´s Teachers Say about Teaching in Public and Private Schools
This May 2009 report by the Friedman Foundation presents data from a major national survey of teachers conducted by the U.S. Department of Education; the Schools & Staffing Survey. The study breaks down these observational data for public and private school teachers, in order to compare what teachers have to say about their work in each of the two school sectors.

Maryland’s Opinion on K-12 Education and School Choice.
Read the full-text of this report, which summarizes a June 2008 survey of 1,200 likely Maryland voters. The report was prepared by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and sponsored by coalition of nonpublic school organizations in Maryland.

Nonpublic School Enrollment Report.
View the full text of this September 2008 report by the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE).

Preserving a Critical National Asset: America’s Disadvantaged Students
and the Crisis in Faith-based Urban Schools
This September 2008 report by The White House Domestic Policy Council addresses the consequences of declining enrollments at urban nonpublic schools.

Public School Enrollment Report
View the full text of this September 2008 report by the MSDE.