The Children's Scholarship Fund is a privately funded tuition assistance program in the United States. The fund allows low-income children to attend private schools. Almost 25,500 students in Kindergarten to 8th Grade receive the fund's scholarships. It was founded in 1998 by Theodore J. Forstmann and John T. Walton.
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