Libertas Utah Honored with the 2023 SPN Network Award

For its 2023 Network Award, the State Policy Network recognized organizations that were instrumental in advancing school choice around the country.

Our policy incubator, Libertas Utah, received the Network Award “for their work to improve education and advance universal school choice.” Through the leadership of our Utah team, the state became the 4th in the country to adopt an Education Spending Account.

This program allows parents to receive up to $8,000 per child that can be used for private school tuition, homeschooling expenses, etc., should the parent decide to withdraw the child from government school. Effectively this represents a portion of what the state would be spending on the child, allowing parents to have more say in how those education dollars are spent.

While we ultimately believe that government should not be in the education business, we believe that market forces are better than monopolies. Instead of all taxpayer dollars earmarked for education flowing to one institution—controlled and operated by the government—it is far better for those dollars to be subject to competitive forces that will improve education outcomes for children.

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