Scholarships help parents make best choice for their children

Bridge Educational Foundation and its donor, Waste Management, are donating $13,500 in scholarships to Bucks County families as students start the new school year. Students attending the following schools will benefit from the tuition scholarships: St. Joseph/St. Robert School, Comprehensive Learning Center and Our Lady of Good Counsel.
School officials, the business donor, and State lawmakers gathered for an outdoor meet-and-greet and photo opportunity at St. Joseph/St. Robert School in Warrington to celebrate the scholarship announcement.
Pennsylvania’s innovative Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program marks two decades of success this year providing thousands of children each year with scholarship aid. EITC tuition scholarships can help to keep students in the schools that best fit their educational needs and allow new families the financial help to choose the best schools to fit their family’s changing needs.

The EITC has enjoyed broad support from families, schools, businesses and the Pennsylvania Legislature for the last two decades. The EITC Program has grown in size and scope since 2001 to include scholarships for pre-kindergarteners and targeted scholarships to students in the lowest performing public schools with the addition of the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit (OSTC) Program.
The Bridge Educational Foundation has provided scholarships to more than 32,0000 students in 61 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.
Pennsylvania’s educational tax credits are successful thanks to the support of the Pennsylvania legislature, which this year added an additional $40 million in scholarships to the 21-22 state budget, and because of the participation of thousands of Pennsylvania businesses.

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