Sentences with phrase «backdoor vouchers»

States using neovouchers - or backdoor vouchers - to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit when making charitable contributions to private schools,...

The report examines tax policies in 20 states that have circumvented public opposition or even constitutional obstacles to publicly funded private school vouchers by using their tax codes to either encourage donations to private school scholarship funds, also known as neovouchers or backdoor vouchers or to offset the cost of private school tuition.

Yet plenty of opposition remains in Mr. Heastie's Assembly, where Democrats aligned with the teachers» unions are unwilling to back a bill they see a backdoor vouchers program.

The State Senate passed the EITC, which is derided by the teachers» unions and some liberal Democrats as a backdoor voucher program, in January.

«The end result is the same — federal tax dollars going to private schools,» said Sasha Pudelski, assistant director for policy and advocacy at AASA, The School Superintendents Association, who called the program «a backdoor voucher.»

While the bill is supported by some 20 unions, who say that it would help the children of their members, the New York State teachers» union staunchly opposes it, calling it a backdoor voucher program that directs tax dollars to private schools.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants his education tax credit, which critics have identified as a backdoor voucher plan for private and parochial schools, and he wants it so badly that sources in Albany are saying he is trying to entice hesitant Democrats by tying strengthened rent regulations to passage of the credit.

DEBUNKING THE MYTHS SURROUNDING SCHOLARSHIP TAX CREDITS MYTH: Scholarship Tax Credits are a backdoor voucher program.

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Even vouchers that theoretically sound good (Special - needs vouchers) are poorly - written to provide a backdoor to transfer public money to private schools with no evidence that student achievement improves.

In 2000, Michigan voters overwhelmingly rejected a DeVos backed school voucher proposal, and her family's answer was to use backdoor influence and money to buy desired results legislatively.