Sentences with phrase «create vouchers for private schools»

In addition, $ 250 million would go to create vouchers for private schools, and $ 167 million for charter schools.

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He urged state lawmakers to create a voucher program that would allow kids to use public dollars for private school tuition.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

Such a decline is likely larger for voucher students who move to a private school immediately after a choice program is created, because the schools also have to adjust — to an influx of new, disadvantaged students.

The Racine Parental Choice Program, created in 2011, provides private school vouchers for low - income students in the Racine Unified School Disschool vouchers for low - income students in the Racine Unified School DisSchool District.

Though the program differed from vouchers in that students were selected and all participating schools were Catholic, its essence — creating new opportunities for disadvantaged students by giving them access to private schools — inspired the voucher movement.

Also Thursday, the Assembly passed Senate Bill 584, which creates stricter accreditation and accounting standards for private voucher schools.

Since the program was created two years ago, the majority of students receiving vouchers were already attending private schools, which has served as the basis for critics» arguments against expansion.

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

Walker's positions contradict a Senate bill's proposal to create two new review boards — one for public and charter schools and one for private voucher schools — and also a provision in the Assembly's version that would require persistently low - performing public schools be turned into charter schools.

DPI said in the letter that a preliminary, but reliable look at the way schools measure up under the new formula shows no school districts are now eligible for a new program lawmakers also created during the last budget cycle that would give county executives the power to turn such schools in their county into private voucher schools or independent charter schools.

Only about half of the private schools participating in voucher programs provided special education or disability related information on their websites, creating a significant problem for families making a decision about where to send their children.

$ 250 million in new spending to fund a newly created private - school choice program — this funding would most likely be used to provide vouchers for families to use at private or parochial schools.

Local officials worked with the Virginia General Assembly to create a «tuition grant» program that allocated vouchers for white students to attend segregated private schools or other nearby public schools.

If lawmakers move forward with creating such a program, it would add another option for Wisconsin parents, who already have a variety of alternatives to their designated public school, including open enrollment to other public schools, voucher - assisted private schools and independent charter schools.

R. 1511), a bill that would create a tuition tax credit program, allowing a dollar - for - dollar tax credit for individuals and corporations who donate to organizations that provide vouchers to low - income students to attend private schools.

The EITC program was created in 2001 and provides a tax credit to corporations who donate to Scholarship Organizations (SOs) that provide private school vouchers for low - income students.

ear after Maryland lawmakers created the state's first private school voucher program, indications are that the state is gearing up for big changes to address low - performing schools as education officials work to draft a plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

K - 12 - Creates voucher - like scholarships to pay for students who are bullied in public schools so they can attend private schools.