And why the state may pick up the tab.
One rural Alabama school district is jumping on the chance to attract new students – and is charging them $7,000 apiece to attend public school.
Alabama’s law will send $100 million in tax revenue that otherwise would go to traditional public schools to education savings accounts. Families can spend them on tuition, textbooks and instructional materials. Alabama’s law requires public and private schools to opt into the program. What Lee County is doing - jumping into the school choice bucket - is happening in other states, too, Nathan Sanders told AL.com, though exactly how widespread the practice is is not clear.
Enrollment across county school systems, with the exception of a few, is declining, but Howard said he isn’t trying to take away other public school districts’ students. The 50-mile radius in the district’s policy includes all of Tallapoosa, Chambers, Macon and Russell counties along with parts of Randolph, Clay, Coosa, Elmore, Montgomery, Bullock and Barbour counties.
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