Sentences with phrase «enacted tuition vouchers»

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Were Congress to enact some semblance of portability, Congress — and any states choosing to take up the option — would need to address questions like under what conditions (tuition, selectivity, compliance with state and federal curricular and civil rights requirements) private schools would be allowed to accept the vouchers.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

The institute aims to make big changes to the state's education system, including ending teacher tenure and enacting vouchers in the form of «tuition tax credits,» along with other efforts that critics say would privatize education in the state.

For years, the institute has been laying the groundwork for radical changes to Missouri's education system, producing reports, testimony, and policy papers purporting to show the benefits of ending teacher tenure and enacting vouchers in the form of «tuition tax credits,» along with other efforts to privatize education and undermine teachers» unions.