Sentences with phrase «before students receive vouchers»

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The greatest improvements should be seen among schools that had already received one F grade from the state, since their students would become eligible for vouchers if they received a second F. To test this hypothesis, average FCAT scale - score improvements for schools were broken out by the grade they received the year before.

These schools received one F during the three school years before the 2002 - 03 administration of the FCAT; one more F during the 2002 - 03 administration and their students would have been offered vouchers.

In the Senate Education Committee, the debate was limited to amendments dealing with implementation: how long private schools had to operate before participating, what tests students receiving vouchers would have to take, what agency would be responsible for the costs of auditing the program.

Statewide, students receiving vouchers were low - achieving before entering private schools (on average, performing at the 42nd percentile compared to public - and private - school students statewide).

In May of 2017 in her testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, Betsy DeVos declined to say whether she would protect students against discriminatory policies in private schools that receive federal funding through vouchers.3

Northside High School, for example, received $ 1.7 million in state vouchers for low - income students attending the private school before being terminated from the program in its first year in 2006 for failing to provide an adequate curriculum.

It requires students to attend at least a public kindergarten before receiving a voucher.

The old eligibility rules required students to attend public school for at least a year before receiving vouchers.

In fact, DeVos recently refused to commit the full weight of her department to protecting all students from discrimination in private schools that receive federal funding through vouchers in her testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee.

The voucher dollars received by the Catholic elementary school of fewer than 600 students jumped from $ 660,000 the year before Runyon's speech, to over $ 937,000 the year that the restructured tuition went into place.

The bill passed by the Senate Education Committee now requires a student to attend kindergarten in a public school before receiving a voucher unless the public school a student would attend received a failing grade from the state.

The version of HB 1003 before the Senate Education Committee increases the maximum voucher amount from $ 4,500 to $ 5,500 and also makes more students eligible for the program, including kindergarteners who receive scholarships from other organizations to attend private school.