Sentences with phrase «based voucher program»

Since then, we increased quality options for families with expanded public school choice, a needs - based voucher program, and Indiana's Charter School Board, making sure all parents — no matter where they live — have the ability to find a good school that meets their child's needs.

In Wisconsin, black city leaders and state representatives partnered with white nonprofit leaders and rural lawmakers to create the nation's first city - based voucher program, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, in 1990.

Coupled with the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, its disregard for the constraints negotiated into NCLB, its expansive and troubling use of NCLB waivers, its aggressive efforts to dictate school discipline and to attack state - based voucher programs, and much else, there is cause to question how much restraint federal officials will show going forward.

Not exact matches

HUD today unveiled plans for a major overhaul of its rental assistance programs — including Section 8 Tenant - Based Rental Assistance, Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Section 8 Project - Based Rental Assistance — to help the agency meet its budget goals.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

l Includes housing choice vouchers, Section 8 project - based rental assistance and housing certificate fund, public - housing operating subsidies, public - housing capital subsidies, and rural rental assistance program.

The City will leverage Project - Based Section 8 vouchers to make housing affordable to those seniors whose income remains stagnant or declines over time, and will continue to push for expanding income eligibility in the SCRIE program.

Proposals for a second term included a «minority job voucher program» and a «faith based office in the state government... to provide resources» to» faith based organizations.»

In addition to enacting the voucher program, the conservative - led board ended the district's collective bargaining agreement with the local teachers union and set up a performance - based salary schedule for teachers.

And, to be fair, that's still the case for some voucher and tax credit scholarship programs, where test - based accountability requirements remain light to nonexistent.

The government provides a set amount of money, which varies based on voucher program, to parents or to the schools directly.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The research included in this volume suggests that vouchers and faith - based programs had slightly positive effects relative to the traditional education systems in several nations (for instance, Chile, Columbia, and Sierra Leone), but the volume also includes some evidence that serves to counter an overly - optimistic view of PPPs.

Wisconsin's Legislative Fiscal Bureau, which conducts budget - related analyses for state legislators, has provided fodder to both sides of the Milwaukee voucher debate with periodic estimates of the financial impact of eliminating the program based on a wide range of assumptions regarding changes in public schoolenrollments.

Private school leaders decide whether to partake in a given voucher program based on the costs and benefits associated with participation.

«We couldn't have asked for a stronger opinion to defend on appeal,» said Clint Bolick, the litigation director of the Washington - based Institute for Justice, which represents a group of low - income Milwaukee families who could receive vouchers under the expanded program.

Putting himself somewhat at odds with many voucher proponents, Moe suggests that - based on what the public says - voucher proponents would do well to «get away from free markets and accept an integral role for government regulation in the design of voucher programs.»

Many critics assert that voucher programs will undermine civic values, promote racial or socio - economic segregation, prompt schools to discriminate based on student ability, and undermine the public commitment to failing schools.

The latest research on the nation's longest - running school - voucher initiative, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, although based on nonexperimental methods, shows a similar pattern of results.

Diane Ravitch's claim that school voucher programs have failed is based on ignoring much of the scientific evidence of their success, misreporting the facts regarding the studies that she does discuss, and the 1 percent difference between 95 % confidence and 94 % confidence.

So Mr. Bedrick draws sweeping conclusions about overregulation of private schools in Louisiana based on a one - year study of schools that had typically not participated in a voucher program before — and that, furthermore, had only discovered at the last minute they were participating at all.

None of the U.S. voucher programs permit schools to deny admission to students based on their disciplinary records.

Based on ratings from the organization GreatSchools, the schools participating in the Louisiana voucher program were not of lesser quality than those that did not participate, though the voucher - accepting schools did charge lower tuition.

These provisions, which have gone virtually unnoticed in the voucher debates thus far, represent a much more serious obstacle to voucher programs because they do not discriminate on the basis of religion.

Private schools might also object to regulations like the one governing the Cleveland voucher program, which prohibits voucher schools from teaching «hatred of any person or group on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, or religion.»

A court could easily conclude that excluding religious schools from voucher programs constitutes discrimination on the basis of religion.

Our analysis excludes LSP voucher users who were participating in the New Orleans — based pilot program prior to 2012 — 13.

Voucher programs that give recipients the free and independent choice of an array of providers, including faith - based organizations, have a long and established history in Arizona, including six different educational voucher programs that help more than 22,000 students annually attend the public, private or religious school of their choice.

The lawsuit — filed Nov. 14 in the Arizona Supreme Court on behalf of the parents by People for the American Way, a Washington - based advocacy group, and other groups — marks the first time a voucher program for special - needs students has been challenged in court, according to the Institute for Justice, an Arlington, Va. - based legal - advocacy group that will...

While more studies need to be conducted, preliminary research has found that improvements to the voucher program combined with the test - based accountability policies provided schools in Chile with incentives to operate more efficiently.

The lawsuit is backed by the Institute for Justice, the Washington, D.C. - based legal organization that last June helped win the U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program.

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

The ECT will acknowledge that School Voucher programs are not 100 % perfect — however we continue to believe (as demonstrated in other States today) that putting Parents in charge with School Vouchers and market based competition between neighboring Schools will be a big improvement over what Colorado has today.

In an interview with StateImpact Florida «s John O'Connor, Bennett says almost all of Indiana's initiatives — A-F grading for schools, teacher evaluations, performance based pay, expansive voucher programs and expanded charter school options — mirror what Florida has been doing for several years now.

Like many other voucher programs around the nation, North Carolina's income - based program could improve per - student funding and eligibility.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

State Representative Dawn White is receiving political support from the Washington, D.C. - based Tennessee Federation for Children in part because of her support for legislation that would have silenced some of the most vocal critics of school voucher programs.

In most voucher programs, private religious schools are permitted to discriminate on the basis of religion in hiring and admission.

This report is based on a «meta - analysis» — a study that examines all of the existing research and examines the overall findings — of the research literature on private school choice programs, including vouchers and tax credit scholarships, from around the world.

Under this program, students who have been screened properly and diagnosed with dyslexia are eligible for a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $program, students who have been screened properly and diagnosed with dyslexia are eligible for a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $Program base student cost, which is around $ 5,000.

Based on rigorous selection criteria, the authors narrowed the field to the 19 studies — representing 11 voucher programs — that used randomized controlled trial (RCT) methodology — the «gold standard» for research.

Under this program, students who are in first through sixth grade and have been screened properly and diagnosed with dyslexia are eligible for a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $program, students who are in first through sixth grade and have been screened properly and diagnosed with dyslexia are eligible for a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $Program base student cost, which is around $ 5,000.

The impact of the voucher program is not based on how many vouchers are used in your district.

It is based on each year's Voucher Program cost to the Tuition Support budget across the state, regardless of the number of vouchers used within the district.

Second, can voucher programs be expected to enhance student performance or improve public education systems, based on the education reforms implemented in the nations that currently rank in the top five in the world in reading, math, and science under PISA?

State Superintendent Tony Evers said based on voucher student data among the three programs, «Clearly, student achievement needs to improve.»

EFA's North Carolina - based representative is Charles Philip Byers, who also chairs the board of Parents for Educational Freedom NC, an organization known for its efforts to promote and defend North Carolina's school voucher program.

Since the program was created two years ago, the majority of students receiving vouchers were already attending private schools, which has served as the basis for critics» arguments against expansion.

The Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia program allows students with a diagnosis of dyslexia to receive a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $program allows students with a diagnosis of dyslexia to receive a voucher in an amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $Program base student cost, which is around $ 5,000.