Below, you can find press releases and media coverage of Palmetto Promise Institute’s ESTF Families Rescue Fund, which helps pay the tuition of families in South Carolina’s Education Scholarship Trust Fund program whose scholarships were ripped away by the SC Supreme Court.
To learn more or contribute, contact Wendy Damron at wendy@palmettopromise.org or donate here to help us meet our goal of $3 million to keep ESTF students in their schools of choice for the remainder of the 2024-25 school year.
You can also give to the Rescue Fund by mailing a designated check to Palmetto Promise Institute at PO Box 12676, Columbia, SC 29211.
Private Donors Help Low-Income Kids Stay In Schools Of Their Choice
This article by Patrick Gleason originally appeared in Forbes. The South Carolina Supreme Court issued a decision last September to strike down the state’s Education Scholarship Trust Fund (ESTF),
RELEASE: DeVos Foundation Donates $250,000 to Palmetto Promise Institute’s ESTF Families Rescue Fund
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DeVos Foundation Donates $250,000 to Palmetto Promise Institute’s ESTF Families Rescue Fund COLUMBIA, SC — The Dick and Betsy DeVos Foundation has made a generous $250,000
To justify its decision striking down Education Scholarship Trust Fund (ESTF) grants for low- and moderate-income K-12 students in September of last year (2024), the South Carolina Supreme Court
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