Sentences with phrase «compare students receiving vouchers»

DPI spokesman John Johnson said it's not appropriate to compare students receiving vouchers to public school students considered to be economically disadvantaged because the income limits for both are «substantially different.»

Not exact matches

Because the voucher studies compare students who won a voucher to those who did not — and those not receiving a voucher very likely ended up in the new and improved public / charter system.

In some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievement.

The inadequate number of eligible applicants has led federal officials to drop plans for a study that would have compared the achievement of voucher recipients with that of students who requested the grants but didn't receive them.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

Statewide, students receiving vouchers were low - achieving before entering private schools (on average, performing at the 42nd percentile compared to public - and private - school students statewide).

Findings: Louisiana — Students who applied to the Louisiana Scholarship Program in 2012 --- 13, won a school - level random lottery to receive a voucher, and attended a private school in 2012 — 13 and 2013 — 14 experienced a decrease in academic achievement compared to their peers who did not win the lottery and instead attended public schools.

(Less than 2 percent of students in voucher schools are identified as receiving special education services, compared to about almost 20 percent in the Milwaukee Public Schools.)

Indiana students who received vouchers to attend a private school actually moved backward on reading and math tests compared with students who remained in public school.

Typically, researchers studying voucher effects attempt to isolate the effect of receiving a voucher from family background variables by comparing students who have the opportunity to use vouchers and choose to pursue it with those that do not take advantage of their opportunity.

The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) compared test scores for two groups of students: students who, through a lottery process, were selected to receive vouchers, and students who applied for yet didn't receive them.

The IES researchers compared test scores for two groups of students: students who, through a lottery process, were selected to receive vouchers, and students who applied for yet didn't receive them.

More than 34,000 Indiana students received vouchers in the 2016 - 17 school year.12 The study used a matching methodology to compare the test scores of students who transferred to participating voucher schools with similar students who remained in public schools.