About CSF
The Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland helps children from lower-income Oregon families get a “hand up” in life through a quality education. CSF-Portland awards partial tuition scholarships to financially needy elementary students to attend any private, parochial or home school of their parents’ or guardians’ choice.
The Children’s Scholarship Fund aims to maximize educational opportunity for all children: for those in need by offering tuition assistance in grades K-8 for alternatives to faltering conventional schools and for all children by supporting and cultivating education reform and school choice efforts.
Mission
The Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland helps children from lower-income Oregon families get a “hand up” in life through a quality education. CSF-Portland awards partial tuition scholarships to financially needy elementary students to attend any private, parochial or home school of their parents’ or guardians’ choice.
Interviews
Featured Cascade Publications
- QuickPoint: Education Does Come First, Doesn’t It?
- QuickPoint: If School Choice Were a TV Show
- QuickPoint: Nearly Nine out of Ten Oregonians Would Opt Out of Regular Public Schools
- Press Release: Nearly Nine of Ten Oregonians Would Opt Out of Regular Public Schools
- QuickPoint: Small Scholarships, Great Impact
- QuickPoint: Private Schools Are Invaluable, Says U.S. Department of Education
- QuickPoint: School Choice for More Children, Says Georgia
- QuickPoint: Only 12% of Idahoans Would Choose a Public School for Their Children
- Commentary: “Pell Grants for Kids” Highlights Need for School Choice
- QuickPoint: School Choice Equals Confidence and Success
- QuickPoint: Are Government Schools Safer Than Private Ones?
- “School Choice Bill Gets Hearing in Oregon House” by Matt Wingard, School Reform News, June 2007
- QuickPoint: School Choice Saves Children and Money
- School Choice Basics
- “CSF-P Families Share Their Experiences” by Kathryn Hickok, Cascade Update, Summer 2006
- “A Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland Success Story” by Kathryn Hickok, Cascade Update, Spring 2006
- “Scholarship Families Say Thanks/Seven Years of School Choice” by Kathryn Hickok, Cascade Update, Winter 2006
- “Children’s Scholarship Fund-Portland: 4 more years!” Cascade Update, Fall 2002
- “Victory for School Choice!” by Steve Buckstein (June 2002)“Milwaukee vouchers serve low-income students” Cascade Update, Summer 2002“School Choice Meets Constitutional Standards” by Robert Freedman, J.D., Cascade Update, Spring 2002
- “Private Scholarships Expand School Choice” by Nick Weller (Commentary 2001-13)
- “Parents, study attest to high satisfaction with CSF” Cascade Update, Summer 2001
- “More metro kids get choice!” and “School tax credits — the Arizona experience”. “School tax credits” is by Thomas C. Patterson, M.D., a former Arizona State Majority Leader and chairman of the Arizona School Choice Trust, Cascade Update, Spring 2001
- by Matthew J. Brouillette (2001)“CSF parents dedicated to children’s education” Cascade Update, Fall 2000
- “Education and diversity: Lessons from our past” by Steve Buckstein, Cascade Update, Summer 2000
- “School choice is its own reward: Reform is about more than dollars and grades” by Steve Buckstein, Cascade Update, Spring 2000
- “Scholarship Fund takes off!” Cascade Update, Winter 1999
- “Celebrating school choice!” Cascade Update, Fall 1999
- “Give parents control” and “Scholarship program gains support” Cascade Update, Spring 1999
- “Low-income students get school choice!” Cascade Update, Winter 1998
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