Sentences with phrase «better than voucher»

On the contrary, the Duke report noted, comparable students who remain in public schools are scoring better than voucher students on national tests.

Not exact matches

Who better to put money into your brilliant business idea than people who can already vouch for you?

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

On the one hand, you could argue that a restaurant voucher is better than a teacher simply handing out junk food rewards since, with a voucher, some intervening parental oversight is required.

Having done this kind of work myself for many years in San Francisco, I can vouch for how frustrating it can be, and yet, as a parent or guardian who really wants to make a difference in nutrition and health for an enormous number of children, there is really no better opportunity than serving on your local school nutrition parent advisory council.

Mr. Schneiderman said he voted in favor of the voucher program, which involves providing homeless sex offenders $ 90 a night to stay in a motel, even though he didn't like it because he believed it was a better plan than the current trailer policy.

«Insurance companies are experts at assessing risk and should have known better than to vouch for bad institutions that harbor sexual predators,» said State Assemblymember Linda B. Rosenthal.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

«Who better to vouch for a casino operator with a string of legal problems than David Paterson, architect of the Aqueduct fiasco,» a casino industry insider said.

Why would shopping vouchers be more of an incentive than their child's well - being?

Sure, environmentalists, outdoor adventurers, and camping enthusiasts will vouch for the restorative powers of nature any day of the week, but there is no better way to reconnect with the earth than at the dawn of a new year.

This is the first cruelty free brush of this type I have used, so I can't vouch for that part BUT I can say that this works much better than the hair type kabuki brushes I owned in the past.

And who better to vouch for embracing curves than Khloé Kardashian herself?

Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

But 56 percent of independents thought teacher unions had «done more harm than good,» 54 percent supported school vouchers, and only 34 percent favored raising teacher salaries, once they had been informed about average salary levels in their state.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

Such a strategy also calls for researchers to ask more nuanced questions than simply whether or not voucher programs are better than public school programs.

Interpretaton: EdNext finds public opinion closely divided on the issue, whereas PDK finds a better than 2:1 split against vouchers.

So, twenty years after the enactment of Milwaukee's program, a growing body of research shows that students receiving vouchers do as well and often better than their peers in public schools and at a fraction of the taxpayer cost.

None of the independent studies performed of the most lauded and long standing voucher programs extant in the U.S. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. — found any statistical evidence that children who utilized vouchers performed better than children who did not and remained in public schools.

That increased by 4 percentage points if the student received the offer of a voucher, a better than 100 percent increment in the percentage enrolled in a selective college, a very large increment from a very low baseline.

The principle of education for the common good is more important now than ever, as school systems across the United States become more plural through charter schools, tax credits, vouchers, and education savings accounts.

Though Fordham's accountability plan for voucher schools is well - intentioned, their justifications are unpersuasive and their proposal is more likely to do harm than good.

Although the promise and potential of parental choice is nowhere more evident than in the realm of technology, the arguments for allowing students ready access to cyberschools extend to interdistrict school choice, charter schools, private schools, and vouchers as well.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

The four different studies use four different designs but arrive at the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

The fact that Milwaukee voucher students advanced through their college years at better rates than the comparison group indicates that their higher high - school graduation rate was not driven by possibly - lower diploma standards in the private - school sector.

Also, students in voucher - accepting schools systematically could do better than lottery losers and still vouchers might lower overall system performance.

Friedman would have allowed schools to charge parents more in tuition than what a voucher could cover, potentially allowing rich parents to send their kids to better - resourced schools than poor parents could.

From a policy - maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which do not feature choice.

Allowing for possible differences in student bodies, those students opting out of government schools through a voucher program on average score better than those who apply for vouchers but do not receive them.

School vouchers never had a better friend than Peter Flanigan.

First, he uses a 2002 GAO study to say that students who receive vouchers fare no better than comparable public school students, even though a veritable mountain of evidence to the contrary has been published since then.

But students who use vouchers or attend charter schools generally do no better academically than comparable students who remain in regular public schools.

The Scranton Times - Tribune editorial board says that vouchers aren't perfect, but they're better than the status quo.

Still Milwaukee public school students fared better than those students who received vouchers to attend private and charter schools.

She chose it because it was across the street from the Catholic school for boys that her son attends, also with a voucher, and it seemed better than a neighborhood public school that has failed for years to meet achievement targets.

Weil's family would not qualify for the voucher program, which is advertised as a way for students from low - income families to get into schools that may be a better fit for them than what the public school system offers.

Report after report proves that public schools provide more opportunities and students there perform better than those in voucher schools,» said WEAC president Betsy Kippers in a statement.

Vouchers» dollar amounts are significantly lower than the amounts public schools spend per - student and yet voucher programs often achieve better results.

The researchers were only 91 percent certain (statistically) that the better performance of voucher - program students was due to the program rather than chance, and they had to be 95 percent certain.

There is no clear evidence that demonstrates students who receive vouchers and attend private schools perform better than students who attend public schools.

Hopefully it will provide a window into whether or not voucher students are experiencing better learning gains than public school students.

That's not the same as saying a little more than half came from private schools, but either way it's definitely a better deal for taxpayers than having to pay tuition for the 73 percent of students in the expanded statewide voucher program whose families were already sending their kids to private school.

Although why that's any better for students than eviscerating teachers unions and expanding vouchers is also something I have yet to figure out.

The answer to that is about as muddled as the answer to whether voucher schools provide an educational product that is any better, on the whole, than the one provided by public schools.