Sentences with phrase «choice than vouchers»

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

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More than 39,000 households benefit from Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers, which are completely funded by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to the analysis.

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

Though voucher programs tend to receive more attention, more than six in ten students attending private school through an educational choice program are using tax - credit scholarships.

Opposition to expanding school choice through a universal voucher initiative that «gives all students an opportunity to go to private schools with government funding» is higher in this year's survey than a year ago.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study estimates that between 7.5 and 14 percent of students in Milwaukee's voucher program have disabilities, a much higher rate than the one provided by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which has stated, «about 1.6 percent of choice students have a disability.»

The third contrasts parental choice with other «possibilities» — like rigorous academic standards and competent teachers — again giving the impression that they are alternatives to vouchers rather than (as is in fact the case) entirely complementary.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

We've gone from two, century - old voucher programs in Maine and Vermont to having private school choice in more than half of the states.

According to school choice supporters, such as Marquette University professor and former Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) superintendent Howard Fuller, MPCP saves the taxpayers considerable cash, as the voucher is smaller than per - pupil spending by MPS.

Because they were more interested in promoting equality of opportunity than simply consumer choice, sociologist Christopher Jencks and law professors John Coons and Stephen Sugarman proposed placing some constraints on how vouchers could be used: Disadvantaged students would receive larger vouchers, and regulations would prevent any school that accepted vouchers from imposing tuition and fees beyond the value of the voucher.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

While charter schools and digital learning are thought to be the safest choice options for political elites to promote, tax credits are even more popular than charters, and vouchers, the most controversial proposal, also command the support of half the population when the idea is posed in an inviting way.

Charter schools, vouchers, tax credits, and online education all provide students and families with greater choice in 2008 than they had in 1998.

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.

In the fall, 870 students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose families earned less than two and a half times the federal poverty level and who would otherwise attend some of the worst schools in the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choice.

Second, school choice is bigger than voucher programs and charter schools.

And it points the way to a solution to the problem of market - suffocating regulation under school choice programs: pursue school choice through education tax credits rather than vouchers or charter schools.

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 truth is, we have lost the change - forest for the choice - trees, too often pushing charters and vouchers as an end in and of themselves rather than a means to spur innovation and opportunity and ultimately deliver on the promise of a great education for all children.

The debate on school choice is about more than just opposing vouchers and our efforts center on supporting policy that strengthens public schools.

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.

To measure the effects of private school choice, we compare the long - term outcomes of more than 10,000 low - income students who first used FTC vouchers between 2004 and 2010 with outcomes of students with similar characteristics who never participated.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

No less than 56 % favor a school voucher that would «give families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools, instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

However, parental choice involves more than just vouchers.

He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school students, most every finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to gains for public and private school students.

Their budget proposal would slash the Education Department's budget by more than 13 percent, or $ 9 billion, while providing $ 1.25 billion for school choice, including $ 250 million for private school vouchers.2

These tax credit programs, sometimes referred to as «neovouchers» or back - door vouchers, have received less public scrutiny than vouchers, even as they currently comprise the largest private school choice programs in numbers of students.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

«One thing is clear from Education Next's poll released today: despite the wording of the questions, when looking across the board at the dominant forms of educational choice options like charter schools, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships, this poll finds more support for these programs than opposition.

But let's also assume many states have much more robust parental choice programs than they do now, with vouchers, tax credit scholarships, charter schools, virtual schools, education savings accounts and a-la-carte course offerings all on the menu.

This requires «accountability» that truly prioritizes parent choice rather than a bait «n switch to reimpose mass political priorities, as current school voucher programs do.

Chalkbeat School choice supporters downplay new voucher research, saying schools are more than a test score

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

A Manhattan Institute study of a school choice program in San Antonio found that vouchers and other choice opportunities help rather than hurt the local public school system.

School «reform» in this country is well down a specific road, one that seeks to view the public school system as something of a business rather than a civic institution and that promotes choice in the form of charter schools, vouchers, etc., as well as standardized tests as the key measurement of student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

Georgia would be expanding its educational choice programs from the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program — a voucher program with more than 4,000 students participating in 2015 — 16 — and the Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit — a tax - credit scholarship with nearly 13,000 scholarships awarded in 2015 — into a universal educational choice program.

Polls by the American Federation for Children, a pro-voucher group that DeVos helmed until she became Trump's nominee, show that American voters are significantly less likely to support «vouchers» than «choice.»

While Friedman's free market philosophy has guided generations of business people and politicians, his views on education are less well known: The economist who advised Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher became interested in school choice more than six decades ago, long before charter schools and private school vouchers became options.

These ideas — choice, charter schools, vouchers — have all gained a foothold to one degree or another in struggling urban districts across the country, including in DeVos» own home turf of Detroit, where more than half of public school students now attend charter schools.

More than 32,000 students in Indiana alone receive vouchers to attend private schools of their choice.

Targeted school choice programs are inferior to broadbased ones because they do not build the most politically effective constituency for school choice but, because targeted tax credits are self - reinforcing, they are much more likely than targeted vouchers to survive and thrive.

But at Hope, a parental choice student voucher school that is making a significant difference in the lives of students, families and their community, the stakes for these recruits are bigger than a national basketball championship.

Even opponents of school choice agree that tax credits are more viable than vouchers.

As the pro-voucher Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice estimates, more than 530,000 Indiana students — more than half of the state's student population — already qualify for the program, referred to in many education circles as the nation's broadest voucher program.

Comparing only state choice programs that target low - income families or children in failing schools, tax - credit programs support nearly 3.5 times more students than do vouchers, using about the same amount of money.

Already, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice estimates more than 530,000 students — nearly half of Indiana's student population — are eligible for vouchers.

People working on the school choice issue also agree that tax credits are more legally viable than vouchers.

A 2006 poll of leaders in the school choice movement, conducted by myself and the Mackinac Center, showed that they prefer tax credits as well; although still low, their opposition to vouchers is more than double their opposition to tax credits.