{"id":224649,"date":"2026-05-08T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224649\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:41:12","slug":"new-york-to-join-federal-tax-program-aiding-nonprofits-that-help-families-pay-for-private-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/224649\/","title":{"rendered":"New York to join federal tax program aiding nonprofits that help families pay for private school"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Hochul intends to opt New York into the Republican-backed federal tax-credit scholarship program<\/a> that would expand school choice across the state by helping nonprofits offering financial assistance for private school expenses raise money, her office said Friday.<\/p>\n

The program will provide a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit of up to $1,700 for donors to scholarship-granting nonprofits. In turn, the organizations will give families who make up to 300% of the local median income<\/a> dollars for private school tuition, tutoring, and other school-related costs.<\/p>\n

The tax credit was created in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a>, signed into law by President Trump last summer. The program was quickly embraced by Republican-led states, but only one Democratic governor has opted in so far: Gov. Jared Polis of Colorado<\/a>. North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein has said he intends to opt in after more details of the program are released.<\/p>\n

\u201cGovernor Hochul is supportive of the federal tax credit scholarship and its potential to help New York students and schools,\u201d said Emma Wallner, a spokeswoman for the governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur office awaits information from the federal government on the program and will thoroughly review the details of the policy for poison pills that could harm New York\u2019s education system.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proponents of the program have framed it as a no-brainer to benefit New York families, while critics warn it could divert students, and the funding that follows them, away from local public schools.<\/p>\n

If New York did not opt in, the state\u2019s taxpayers could still claim the tax credit<\/a>, but those dollars would have gone toward scholarship programs in other, so far mostly Republican-led states.<\/p>\n

Hochul, a moderate Democrat running for re-election this year, faces a Republican challenge from Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive. She did not face a primary after her lieutenant governor, Antonio Delgado, dropped his bid<\/a> as the path narrowed for a candidate to Hochul\u2019s left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Hochul intends to opt New York into the Republican-backed federal tax-credit scholarship program that would expand school…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,85,267,9,24,264,11,10,12],"class_list":["post-224649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-education","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}