Sentences with phrase «by voucher proponents»

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

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The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

School choice proponents who seek to prove that vouchers, tax credits and scholarships «work» by citing test - score - based research have allowed themselves to be lured into argument that can never be completely won.

Inevitably, voucher proponents will insist that the constitutional rights secured by a victory in Zelman would prove hollow if the states were permitted to undermine choice on their own.

He called the bill «tax credit vouchers» and warned that «voucher proponents seek to mislead legislators and the public regarding the true nature of this tax credit voucher by labeling it a scholarship charity.»

Indeed, he is a proponent not only of charter autonomy but of vouchers, which though ardently desired by the parochial system, are so far only a token presence in the New Orleans schools landscape (see «In the Wake of the Storm,» features, Spring 2010).

Harvard professor and iconic school - voucher proponent Paul Peterson has characterized the voucher movement as «stalled,» in part by the fact that many «new voucher schools were badly run, both fiscally and educationally,» and in part because results in Milwaukee were not «as startlingly positive as advocates originally hoped.»

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

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.

In addition, the main argument made by the supporters of portability — that the funds should follow the child — mimics that of voucher proponents.

Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who sent their children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public school taxes and again by paying tuition for their children's private schools.

You pollute the term «school choice» by including privatization and vouchers, when you should know that in California, proponents of vouchers are NOT included in the push for reform or choice and the in California all CHarter Schools are public schools.

After a period of relative quiet, voucher proponents have been active, pushing variety of proposals that appear to have made it into the package of K - 12 education items agreed upon by the Senate and Assembly, as reflected in the Legislative Fiscal Bureau summary of the Senate Republican budget plan.

According to a review published by the National Education Policy Center (NEPC), housed at the University of Colorado at Boulder School of Education, once again the voucher proponents at the University of Arkansas are simply asserting their conclusions.

Speaking in Indianapolis before a friendly audience of school voucher proponents, she instead laid out a moral case to dramatically transform American education — and improve young people's prospects — by expanding school choice.

While the first wave of vouchers passed by states came with requirements to keep the money in the hands of families most affected by underperforming schools, voucher proponents saw an opportunity in Nevada to go even further.

In June, a third voucher study was released by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank and proponent of school choice.

Proponents of vouchers, tuition tax credits, non-public charter schools and other methods propose to improve education by diverting public resources to support private ventures.