March 7, 2014 4:12PM # Live Free and Learn By [Jason Bedrick](https://www.cato.org/people/jason-bedrick) --- SHARE Earlier this week, the Show-Me Institute released my study “[Live Free and Learn](http://www.showmeinstitute.org/publications/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_view&gid=461&Itemid=110),” the first analysis of New Hampshire’s trailblazing [scholarship tax credit program](http://www.edchoice.org/School-Choice/Programs/School-Choice-Scholarship-Program.aspx), which is the first in the nation to include homeschoolers. The study found that participants in the program were overwhelmingly low-income and nearly universally satisfied. Some of the key findings include: - 97 percent of parents of scholarship recipients are satisfied with their chosen private or home school. - 68 percent of parents reported that they noticed measurable academic improvement in their child since receiving the scholarship. - 91 percent of scholarship recipients had a household income that would qualify for a free or reduced-price lunch program under the federal National School Lunch program (185 percent of the federal poverty line, or $43,568 for a family of four). - 74 percent of private school parents reported that they would have been unable to afford tuition without the scholarship. I discuss the findings of the study in greater detail at the [Education Next blog](http://educationnext.org/low-income-parents-highly-satisfied-with-new-hampshire’s-scholarship-tax-credits/). ##### Related Tags [Education](https://www.cato.org/education), [Center for Educational Freedom](https://www.cato.org/center-educational-freedom) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).