Sentences with phrase «controversial opportunity scholarship»

If that's not enough, the document — inked by a rural Lee County private school, which is eligible to receive public funds under the state's controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program — goes on to make this declaration:

That's likely a reference that would include North Carolina's own controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program, which offers public cash to low - income students seeking to enroll in the state's primarily religious private schools, some of which reportedly maintain discriminatory admissions policies toward LGBTQ students and their families.

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Conclusions School voucher initiatives such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the program.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

Hanes was among a handful of Democrats who rankled some liberals in 2013 when they backed the GOP - launched Opportunity Scholarship Program, a controversial program of public vouchers that helps pay for low - income children to attend private schools, most of them with religious backgrounds.