Sentences with phrase «debate over the voucher program»
The push comes amid a heated debate over the voucher program, which the state teachers union and local officials contend pulls money away from traditional public schools.
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Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.
STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.
The development of voucher programs in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida has fostered a serious national debate over a question that once could be discussed only on the outer margins of politics.
The enactment of voucher programs renewed the debate over the role of private school choice in American education.
There are also debates over standardized testing, Common Core standards, integration programs, and voucher and charter schools.
In order to add necessary context to the recent voucher research — and the debate over the budget — the authors compare the negative outcomes of one of these voucher programs — the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — to other factors that negatively affect student achievement.