YourVoice.Now Summary
Average Household ImpactTransparency & AccountabilityCivil LibertiesChildren of active-duty troops could get $6,000 a year for private school, tutoring, or therapy — if they leave public school.
Average Household Impact
- Education savings accounts — $6,000 a year per active-duty dependent child
- Eligible expenses — Covers tutoring, therapies, testing fees, and college costs
- Free part-time public school access — Account must pay for partial enrollment
Transparency & Accountability
- Fraud reporting — Anonymous hotline and website required
- Account audits — Random, quarterly, or annual audits required
- Provider surety bond — Required above $100,000 a year in account payments
- Federal requirements on providers — Limited to those written into the bill
- Agency burden in disputes — Department must prove any requirement is necessary
- Transfer and reprogramming controls — Secretary may move funds from any Education account
Civil Liberties
- Religious-provider participation — Exclusion based on religious character barred
The details
Parents on active duty could open a federally funded education account for each child. The government would deposit $6,000 a year per child, rising with inflation. To qualify, a parent must agree not to enroll the child full-time in public school. The child must also have attended public school for at least 100 straight days the year before. The money could pay for private or religious school, online programs, tutoring, and micro-schools. It also covers therapies, standardized test fees, apprenticeships, college costs, and contributions to a 529 college savings plan. If demand exceeds funding, a lottery favors siblings first, then children of enlisted members, then warrant officers, then commissioned officers. Unused money returns to the Treasury when the account closes, generally at age 22. The measure authorizes $1.2 billion for fiscal year 2026, indexed to inflation after that. Providers must be licensed in their state. Those taking in $100,000 or more a year must post a surety bond. An anonymous fraud hotline and periodic audits are required. At the same time, no federal requirements beyond those written into the bill may be placed on participating providers. If a provider challenges a Department of Education rule, the Department carries the burden of proving that rule is necessary.
Congressional Summary
Education Savings Accounts for Military Families Act of 2025This bill directs the Department of Education (ED) to establish a program to provide children with parents on active duty in the uniformed services with funds to pay educational expenses.Specifically, ED must establish a tax-exempt Military Education Savings Account for dependent children of parents in the uniformed services for the payment of the children's educational expenses. Funds in the savings account may be used for specified purposes, including the cost of attendance at a private elementary or private secondary school or institution of higher education, private tutoring, or costs associated with an apprenticeship or other vocational training program.
Details
- Congress
- 119th
- Chamber
- Senate
- Status
- summarized
- Action
- Introduced in Senate
- Action Date
- 2025-04-01
- Date Added
- 2026-08-07
- Source
- Congress.gov →
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