Sens. John DiSanto, Joseph B. Scarnati III and John H. Eichelberger Jr. published a memo announcing their plan to create education savings accounts to help students attending low-achieving schools obtain nonpublic schooling.

The ESAs would be held by the state Treasury. The accounts would receive the average state funding per pupil—and would be deducted from the local district’s state education subsidies of that student. Special education students would get, according to the memo, that amount multiplied by the “appropriate category weight as specified in the special education funding formula.”

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