Sentences with phrase «city vouchers for»

Doing this makes us significantly dependent on philanthropy to sustain operations, since very little of our $ 1.5 million annual operating budget can be offset by paid - for services (pets, extra services, occasional City vouchers for tame cats only).

FixNation does accept City vouchers for tame cats, as of January 2011.

Most families pay $ 50 in rent a month and the rest is paid for by city vouchers for up to two years.

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Those family members and people they vouch for run some aspects of the trafficking operation, while «actual members of Mexican TCOs are usually sent to important US hub cities to manage stash houses containing drug shipments and bulk cash drug proceeds,» the DEA's threat assessment adds.

The City will leverage Project - Based Section 8 vouchers to make housing affordable to those seniors whose income remains stagnant or declines over time, and will continue to push for expanding income eligibility in the SCRIE program.

The landlord claimed it was owed $ 4 million in lost income after the city delayed approval of rent increases for enhanced Section 8 vouchers at three Manhattan complexes.

One of the largest operators of affordable multi-family housing in Upper Manhattan and the boroughs is suing the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for at least $ 4 million for lost income tied to deferred rent increases in subsidized housing vouchers at three apartment complexes in East Harlem.

Some of those bribes were allegedly funneled through Percoco's wife Lisa, a former New York City school teacher who in February 2016 submitted a voucher for $ 7,500 for a final month of work for Competitive Power Ventures.

At the time, Cuomo's WFP candidacy was vouched for by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, who the governor has been locked in a heated feud.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

It was only a year ago that Gov. Andrew Cuomo triumphantly appeared at the state Democratic convention in Suffolk County, re-nominated for a second term by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, his political frienemy, who vouched for the governor's liberal bona fides.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said today he won't downplay the potential impact of the pro-school voucher stances of President - elect Donald Trump's Education Secretary - designate Betsy DeVos, but he predicted that the city's education initiatives won't be affected and that it won't be «easy» for her to push her agenda.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

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.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

[Updated at 6:52 p.m. with comment from NYCHA] Rep. Jerrold Nadler and his nine fellow New York Democrats are urging the New York City Housing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the program.

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I won't be in Park City this year, sadly, though I have been in the past and can vouch for it as a really unique and enjoyable (if exhausting) festival to attend.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

A midrange estimate derived from this literature is that about 10 percent of voucher - using students from low - income families in big cities would have attended private schools anyway (the percentage is higher for one - year attendance and lower for more sustained attendance).

The most consistent advocates for school vouchers in America are low - income black and Hispanic parents who live in central cities.

On Top of the News Stop Burning NY's Special Ed Dollars New York Post 2/1/12 Behind the Headline The Case for Special EducationVouchers Education Next Winter 2010 Former State Assemblyman Michael Benjamin makes the case for special ed vouchers in New York City in an op - ed appearing in today's Post.

Thirty - five years after these words were penned, Wisconsin enacted a voucher program for the city of Milwaukee.

Louisiana appears on track to enact a private - school - voucher plan for New Orleans that borrows from choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing public schools.

The $ 10 million plan would provide vouchers for as many as 1,500 city students to attend secular or religious nonpublic schools this coming fall.

Public schools all over the nation — but especially in cities — are grappling with difficult problems of strikes, decreasing enrollment and increasing costs, as well as the perceived threat of tax credits for private - school tuition and voucher plans.

These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

The Saints» thrilling victory over the Vikings in overtime Sunday night in the Superdome was perhaps the most exciting win for the city since Gov. Bobby Jindal rallied a ragtag coalition of state legislators to create a voucher program for New Orleans in the summer of 2008.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.

George W. Bush's election in 2000 removed that obstacle, and the transition to unified Republican control of the federal government led some District officials to calculate that voucher legislation for the city would eventually come to pass.

In the weeks after the storm, the superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans appeared before the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) urging board members to consider using vouchers as a way for the state and Catholic schools to collaborate in serving the students who remained in the city.

In exchange, she sought money for the public system, limitation of vouchers» use to private schools in the city, and discussion of a «Marshall Plan» for public schools, charter schools, and other nonprofit education facilities in the city.

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.

While eligibility for vouchers varies state - by - state, Trump promised to campaign nationwide and call upon individual states and cities to elect officials in support of school choice.

While eligibility for vouchers varies by state, Trump promised to campaign nationwide and call upon individual states and cities to elect officials in support of school choice.

We asked them also to survey private schools in communities served by four of the country's most prominent voucher programs (city - specific programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland, statewide programs in Ohio and Indiana) to ascertain how both participating and non-participating schools view those programs and their regulations and how heavily they weigh program requirements (and other constraints) when deciding whether to sign up for and accept the programs» students.

To his credit, he endorses voucher experiments for poor children in failing inner - city schools.

For example, research on a privately funded school voucher program in New York City provides some evidence in favor of a link existing between test scores and longer - term outcomes, where vouchers raised test score gains and increased the likelihood of graduating from high school and enrolling in college.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Unlike school vouchers for low - income students, charter schools in disadvantaged communities, or bonus pay for teachers in inner - city schools, digital learning is not designed for just one slice of the population.

And part of what makes the Louisiana results so newsworthy — but also why voucher critics should pause before leaning too heavily on the latest reports — is that many of these studies conducted in other locations, such as Charlotte, Milwaukee, Washington, D.C. and New York City, for example, found the opposite pattern.

Vouchers have been a destabilizing force for families and public schools in this city for decades.

In Milwaukee, which has been disproportionately burdened in a statewide voucher funding scheme, the city has had to raise property taxes several times in order to ensure adequate funding for the city's schools.

Two years ago, Marquette professor Alan Borsuk wrote «Milwaukee could become first American city to use universal vouchers for education.»

Cities led by Milwaukee and Cleveland started programs providing tax - supported vouchers for low - income children to take to private schools.

Although 69 % of students who applied for the DC vouchers lived in wards 1, 5, 7, and 8 (the least affluent areas of the city), only 40 % of DC voucher schools are located there.

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Republicans Won't Let Chicago's School Crisis Go to Waste In exchange for bailing out the Windy City, Illinois's Gov. Rauner wants a serious voucher program.