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Could a $1,700 rebate change the landscape of Jewish education?

JL;DR SUMMARY The newly signed One Big Beautiful Bill Act introduces a national school voucher program called the Educational Choice for Children Act (ECCA), offering up to $1,700 in tax rebates for donations to private school scholarship funds. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Private SchoolsJewish EducationOrthodox JewsReform JudaismConservative JudaismReligious FreedomEducational PolicyChurch And StateSchool VouchersTax Rebate

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Boulder, Colorado, United States
"that has left a gaping hole in the bill for subsequent legislation or litigation to fill, said Kevin Welner, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education and the co-founder of the National Education Policy Center"
Los Angeles, California, United States
"Louis Keene is a reporter for the Forward. His work has also been published in The New York Times, New York magazine and Vice. He is based in Los Angeles."

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