Representative Virginia Foxx (R-NC) has introduced the SOAR Act Improvements Act, a bill aimed at making targeted changes to the federally funded school choice program for low-income families in Washington, D.C.
Foxx stated, “School choice has the power to improve the lives and trajectories of our nation’s future leaders – there’s no question or debate about it. Washington, D.C. is a prime example of where school choice is working in our nation, and countless young men and women from low-income families are receiving a quality education that will propel them to new heights.”
The proposed legislation would reauthorize the District’s Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) for an additional seven years. The OSP provides scholarships for low-income children to attend private schools in Washington, D.C. According to Foxx, “The SOAR Act Improvements Act helps reauthorize the District’s successful Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) that provides low-income children scholarships so they can attend a private school in the District. This bill reauthorizes the program for an additional seven years while providing program administrators increased flexibility to run the program efficiently. It also improves how funds appropriated from Congress are allocated within the program. This is an opportunity to do the right things for the right reasons, and I look forward to this legislation’s full consideration in the House.”
Virginia Foxx has maintained her seat in Congress through several election cycles, defeating Chuck Hubbard in 2024 with 59.5% of the vote, Kyle Parrish in 2022 with 63.15%, David Brown in 2020 with 66.9%, Denise D. Adams in 2018 with 57%, Josh Brannon in both 2016 and 2014 with margins of 58.4% and 61% respectively.
