Sentences with phrase «by voucher»

Rogers confirmed to MobileSyrup that the offer is available only at select retailers and will be fulfilled by voucher or store gift card, with taxes and pay - per - use charges extra as applicable.

The demo is activated by a voucher included with FINAL FANTASY TYPE - 0 HD.

Payment for any on - going services can be made by a voucher system.

We're told by voucher advocates this will be limited to Shelby County and won't expand unless is «works.»

Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The average tuition of private schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.

Finally, many public schools who lost students to vouchers are on an upward performance trajectory.52 Therefore, part of the learning loss experienced by voucher students compared with the learning of their public school peers could be attributable to the fact that those public schools are on an upward performance trajectory.

And to the extent that students want to enroll in our school system, their enrollment will be funded by a voucher.»

The «accounts» were developed by voucher proponents as a way of getting around constitutional prohibitions on the use of public money for religious schools.

Two years ago, DOJ directed DPI to implement stronger policies to ensure students with disabilities are properly served by voucher schools.

Wolf emphasized that these early results don't include information on how LSP affects educational attainment, which has been positively influenced by voucher programs in places such as Milwaukee and Washington, D.C.

Michigan's Mackinac Center, a free - market think tank that has received money from the DeVos family, estimates there are about 21,000 spots in private Michigan schools that could be filled by voucher students.

Two of the top three private schools identified by voucher applicants as their preferred choice are Islamic schools, according to an affidavit submitted by the state from an employee of the school voucher administrating agency.

«It's time we take down the smoke screen being put up by the voucher lobby and get to work making sure our students have the best education that can be provided,» Pope said.

Representative Robin Vos said his caucus supports the move being pushed by voucher lobbyists, even though it's been rejected by Senate Republicans.

The Oscar winner inspired a spirited discussion among the men on the trip, who were hosted by voucher advocate Mark Gill, about leadership and integrity.

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.»

So far, however, the threat posed by voucher plans has generally been quite mild.

The most interesting thing about Moe's challenge, however, is that it was not raised by voucher advocates during the period from 1993 through 1998, when support for vouchers as measured by both questions was climbing steadily.

During the program's first year, only two schools in the entire state were targeted by the voucher program.

Our research — and our reputation — was bitterly attacked by voucher opponents.

Forty - one percent of all private schools that participated in the Milwaukee private school voucher program between 1991 and 2015 failed, according to a new study by a voucher school proponent who said he was stunned by the findings.

The timing was sharply criticized by voucher opponents.

This isn't going to stop Congress from reauthorizing and re-funding the program, mind you, but it's already been seized on by voucher haters and added to a spate of recent statewide studies in Louisiana, Ohio, and Indiana that found little or no gain for the voucher kids.

The Supreme Court likely remained silent on this issue because of the limited range of impact created by voucher programs when juxtaposed with the Brown Court's broad goal of equal opportunities for all children.

This is the same rationale used earlier this year by voucher opponents in the Wisconsin legislature, which cut funding for private schools in Milwaukee's school choice program and enacted a public school - style regulatory regime for those schools.

Those studies have collected information on private school usage by voucher - seeking families, both those who were awarded vouchers (by lottery) and those who were not.

Since nonusers could not have been affected by the voucher, the impact of scholarship use can be computed easily by dividing the pure experimental impact by the proportion of treatment students who used their scholarships, effectively rescaling the impact across scholarship users instead of all treatment students including nonusers.

«(j) Payment of certain amounts by voucher.

Doctors at participating hospitals provided usual care, but at roughly half the sites selected randomly, the cost of anti-platelet medications were offset by vouchers over the course of the study's one - year span.

The Politico article cites anti-creationism crusader Zach Kopplin's research on the teaching of creationism in schools funded by vouchers — without citing his investigation into public charter schools doing the same.

Let's first consider the possibility that it was the stigma of being labeled a failure, rather than the competitive incentives introduced by vouchers, that spurred improvement among F schools, as several researchers have suggested.

This is the group with the greatest incentive to improve and also the greatest likelihood of being harmed by vouchers if vouchers are in fact harmful.

In detailing the program's existence, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi found that segregation academies in the state were consistently established in public school districts that had either recently been forced to desegregate by the courts or had recently submitted desegregation plans.48 Appendix B of the court's ruling reveals the percentage of tuition that was covered by the vouchers offered to students at a number of the state's segregation academies.

The current Education Reform agenda is directly linked to Milton Freidman and his notions of a privatized public education system accessed by vouchers.

Increasingly, they are also forced to pick up the students expelled by vouchers schools like Mount Olive, without any funding following the student to the next school.

Longitudinal evaluations of the effects of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP), the voucher program initiated by Governor Thompson, indicate that student achievement outcomes were not consistently affected by vouchers but other vital student outcomes, including educational attainment, civic values, criminal proclivities as well as parent and student satisfaction were positively influenced by participation in private school choice.

Most communities lack the number of high quality private schools to meet any real demand created by vouchers.

Charters were a choice option that avoided the concerns posed by vouchers — entanglement of church and state and a lack of accountability for public dollars.

Asked whether he was confident that the private schools funded by vouchers are better than the public schools students would otherwise attend, Jindal told POLITICO that parents, not government officials, should make that decision.

But even failing, really poorly - performing charter schools and schools supported by vouchers — parents don't want to leave because they want the stability.

He starts by vouching for his fellow writer's value in the community:

By vouching for the quality of the games in its catalog, we imagine players to be way more comfortable to give a title a chance and have a look.

Montefiore Medical Center was home to some of the most important and innovative research trials in the early years of the epidemic; the Bronx - Lebanon Hospital, according to Bessa, was near bankruptcy in the early 1980s, and was effectively saved by the vouchers and funding that came in for treating the infected.

Not exact matches

But the initiative comes with another huge financial prize for firms that successfully win FDA approval for these niche therapies: a priority review voucher that can be used to slash the regulatory period for a different experimental specialty treatment being developed by a drug maker or, more often, sold for potentially hundreds of millions of dollars to another pharma company.

The company responded by rolling out the Garment Collecting Initiative, awarding vouchers to customers for bringing unwanted clothing to H&M stores.

However, the voucher isn't really a voucher — it's merely a code that you have to punch in by going to a special website.

(Keep in mind the voucher can only be redeemed on a flight provided by that particular airline.)

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

«Vouchers generally restrict purchases to food, and we found a bias toward purchasing sugar, tea and halawa (a local sweet product),» she said by email.