Keep Kids First Nebraska

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KKF responds to petition signature announcement:

Our focus has always been on giving Nebraska families the opportunity to choose the right education for their children to grow and reach their potential. We are just as determined today as we were yesterday to help students struggling in a traditional education setting.

The Opportunity Scholarships Act creates a tax credit scholarship program for students from lower-income families, students with special needs, students who experience bullying, students from military families, students in foster care, and students who are denied option enrollment at a public school. The program will be effective in 2024, but a repeal will take this new hope and opportunity away from families and students who need it the most.

The teachers union was willing to say and do anything to take educational freedom away from Nebraska families, so it is no surprise they gathered enough petition signatures to qualify for the ballot. Support Our Schools made a mockery of the signature petition process by consistently misleading and misinforming Nebraskans about the Opportunity Scholarships Act and the intent of their petition drive. The evidence of their misinformation campaign throughout the summer was overwhelming, and Nebraskans deserve better.

Tuition inflation over the last decade was lower on average in states with school choice, according to a report by the Heritage Foundation.

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New reports says school choice lowers education tuition inflation - The Lion Tuition inflation over the last decade was lower on average in states with school choice, a report by the Heritage Foundation says. “Data analysis from the past decade reveals that tuition inflation was lower in states that adopted school choice policies (about 15 percent, on average) than in stat...

A statement from Keep Kids First.

“The only way to break generational poverty is to access opportunities and to access education." Valeria Gurr corrects the myth that school choice defunds public schools.
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Statewide grassroots effort opposing tax credit petition takes stage in Norfolk The deadline to collect signatures for the widely circulated Support Our Schools petition aimed at allowing Nebraska voters to decide the fate of an education tax credit law is approaching,

This is what Nebraska Opportunity Scholarships are all about 👉 "If supporters rise to the challenge, Florida won’t be the outlier for long and all parents will enjoy true freedom and the right to direct their child’s education."

Here's the proof school choice works for parents and students Parental choice has the potential to renew and reinvigorate one of the greatest success stories in American education.

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African-American education history exhibit promotes Nebraska school choice An exhibit in Omaha points to school choice as a good thing, especially for children of color.

"Every parent and child in Nebraska should have the right to pick a school they believe best suits their unique situation." Senator Murman agrees that taking away Opportunity Scholarships would be disastrous for Nebraska families. https://journalstar.com/opinion/columnists/local-view-no-controversy-in-school-choice/article_4e346cae-4032-11ee-8c1b-1f3f49861c1f.html

Local View: No controversy in school choice Every parent and child in Nebraska should have the right to pick a school they believe best suits their unique situation. The Opportunity Scholarships Act, passed this last session in

"Teachers unions and paid petition gatherers, operating under the banner of Support Our Schools, have encountered an unexpected form of resistance: Young people like Roberts and Slade-Bowers, who have personally benefitted from education options." https://ow.ly/w11m50PCthR

A new generation of activists takes to the front lines of the school choice movement - reimaginED Sherlean Roberts felt a surge of adrenaline as she noticed the uniforms. At a summer jazz concert at a city park in Omaha, Nebraska, she first noticed a