Averel Meden on What New Education Freedom Tax Credit Rules Mean for States, SGOs, & Families

Thanks for bringing up that conversation with Patrick Graff.

He's with the American Federation for Children, and they have created state-by-state fact sheets that people can take to these state leaders we're talking about that show how, uh, how many students are eligible, which is almost all of them, in each state, and the amount of dollars, the, an estimate on the amount of dollars that can be raised based on the taxpayers in that state.

So that's a, a really helpful resource that's out there.

Another helpful resource or resources have been the webinars that have been happening.

I feel like my job, uh, last week, this week, is just to sit at my laptop and, uh, take in all of this analysis of what's in the, the proposed rules.

There are a lot of webinars happening.

You all at the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Coalition were right out the gate with an incredibly helpful one, and, uh, about 700 people [chuckles] attending.

That was, um, that was remarkable.

It, the- ... conversation featured former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and a Treasury Department official.

Uh, who were these 700 people? Who, who's so excited about the tax credit that they immediately logged on to get the scoop?

You know, Ginny, we had over 700 people and growing.

I kept looking at the numbers, and it was awesome to see them engaged on our webinar.

Uh, you know, it came together sort of, uh, at the last minute, right when it needed to happen because we did wanna make sure that we were getting Treasury officials with the official message, uh, the opportunity to talk to the coalition members, which, which to your point, we have all sorts of people that join these webinars.

We certainly have SGOs, we have, uh, education advocacy organizations, we've got school leaders, of course, among them are parents and grandparents-

Mm

... and aunts and uncles.

And it really is a, a huge coalition of which, from the webinar, we have more than 2,000 people signed up for our [chuckles] emails now.

Fantastic.

So I suspect, uh, people do wanna know what's going on.

They really do.

Well, this brings me to our next question.

During last week's rules release events, yours and others', uh, Kevin ...

Is it Salinger? How do you say his last name, from Treasury?

Salinger.

Salinger.

Thanks for bringing up that conversation with Patrick Graff.

He's with the American Federation for Children, and they have created state-by-state fact sheets that people can take to these state leaders we're talking about that show how, uh, how many students are eligible, which is almost all of them, in each state, and the amount of dollars, the, an estimate on the amount of dollars that can be raised based on the taxpayers in that state.

So that's a, a really helpful resource that's out there.

Another helpful resource or resources have been the webinars that have been happening.

I feel like my job, uh, last week, this week, is just to sit at my laptop and, uh, take in all of this analysis of what's in the, the proposed rules.

There are a lot of webinars happening.

You all at the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Coalition were right out the gate with an incredibly helpful one, and, uh, about 700 people [chuckles] attending.

That was, um, that was remarkable.

It, the- ... conversation featured former Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin and a Treasury Department official.

Uh, who were these 700 people? Who, who's so excited about the tax credit that they immediately logged on to get the scoop?

You know, Ginny, we had over 700 people and growing.

I kept looking at the numbers, and it was awesome to see them engaged on our webinar.

Uh, you know, it came together sort of, uh, at the last minute, right when it needed to happen because we did wanna make sure that we were getting Treasury officials with the official message, uh, the opportunity to talk to the coalition members, which, which to your point, we have all sorts of people that join these webinars.

We certainly have SGOs, we have, uh, education advocacy organizations, we've got school leaders, of course, among them are parents and grandparents-

Mm

... and aunts and uncles.

And it really is a, a huge coalition of which, from the webinar, we have more than 2,000 people signed up for our [chuckles] emails now.

Fantastic.

So I suspect, uh, people do wanna know what's going on.

They really do.

Well, this brings me to our next question.

During last week's rules release events, yours and others', uh, Kevin ...

Is it Salinger? How do you say his last name, from Treasury?

Salinger.

Salinger.