Sentences with phrase «county students using vouchers»

St. Johns County students using vouchers increased from 111 last year to 144 this year.

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Douglas County requires that sectarian schools accepting vouchers must let students opt out of religious services, making any distinction between religious status and use less relevant.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

Notably, one public school in Saint Landry Parish (Louisiana calls its counties «parishes») was so high - performing that 20 students used their vouchers there.

In their ruling earlier this year, however, Colorado justices held the Douglas County voucher program «awards public money to students who may then use that money to pay for religious education.

The fact that these voucher funds are likely insufficient to serve students with profound needs means that there's an increased likelihood that students with milder disabilities will use PESAs and vouchers to leave the public schools for private settings that are better equipped to handle less costly and complex needs, said Cleveland County's Aspel.