Sentences with phrase «existing voucher programs»

• The benefits provided by existing voucher programs are sometimes large, but are usually more modest in size.

The position of the Democratic nominee for governor is to allow the existing voucher programs in Milwaukee and Racine but to block statewide expansion of the program.

With both the House and Senate having passed their respective education bills, NSBA remains steadfast in working with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to pass a final bill that restores community ownership to local school boards, maximizes federal funding for Title I, and excludes private vouchers, tuition tax credits, or existing voucher programs.

«Many existing voucher programs are limited in the number and type of students they're allowed to serve and the amount of choice they're allowed to offer.

First, does the actual documented track record of existing voucher programs demonstrate that those programs in fact achieved the desired goal of enhancing student achievement?

Meanwhile, also on Monday, studies of two existing voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana were released showing that after an initial backslide, students receiving vouchers make up ground and perform roughly as well as their public school peers after a few years.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has pushed the hardest, enacting a law that removes the cap on the number of charter schools in his state, authorizes all universities to register charters and expands an existing voucher program in the state for students to attend private and charter schools (in some cases managed by for - profit companies).

Not exact matches

Trying to compare poverty in the 1960s to poverty today using the official measure yields misleading results; it implies that programs like SNAP, the EITC, and rental vouchers — all of which were either small in the 1960s or didn't yet exist — have no effect in reducing poverty, which clearly is not the case.

While voucher, tuition tax credit, and education savings - account programs have been successful in filling excess capacity in existing private schools, they have not led to widespread scaling of high - quality school models or to the creation of new, high - quality schools.

Research on the effect of existing private school voucher programs has not shown significant achievements for students in those programs, the report asserts.

In addition to legal challenges, opponents of special education vouchers are beginning to advance political and educational arguments against the idea as new programs are being considered in states such as Texas, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and South Carolina, and the existing Ohio program is poised to expand.

A useful opportunity exists here to explore differences between «long stayers» and «short stayers,» which may improve our understanding of which kinds of students benefit from voucher programs.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

The problem, at least for policymakers who might be looking to existing programs as they consider instituting vouchers, is that White and Blaufuss might both be right.

Both the Louisiana and Indiana voucher programs exist with strong school accountability environments, but that doesn't necessarily mean accountability is the key.

For example, research on a privately funded school voucher program in New York City provides some evidence in favor of a link existing between test scores and longer - term outcomes, where vouchers raised test score gains and increased the likelihood of graduating from high school and enrolling in college.

Furthermore, by dismantling the Title I funding formula, not only would public schools and students in poverty be harmed, but portability would also allow the dollars to be more easily transferred to private schools to either create a voucher or to be combined with existing state voucher programs.

Most voucher programs lack accountability measures, and according to studies of voucher programs, many also lack proper oversight to ensure they meet even the minimal standards that do exist.

Existing research on other conventional school voucher programs point to a number of problems, including: lower student performance, less accountability, reduced access and increased segregation.

One might expect special education voucher programs — as exist in Florida, Ohio, and Wisconsin — to provide the best guarantees for students with disabilities.

This report is based on a «meta - analysis» — a study that examines all of the existing research and examines the overall findings — of the research literature on private school choice programs, including vouchers and tax credit scholarships, from around the world.

The missions of NCPE's member organizations greatly vary, yet we are united in our position that Congress should not expand existing or create new federal voucher programs.

One of the sole pillars of the public education plan from President Donald Trump and Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos is to divert $ 20 billion from existing federal education programs to create a nationwide school voucher program.

Liz Hill, a DeVos spokeswoman, said later Wednesday that panel members had asked questions about a voucher program that doesn't exist yet and about topics not covered under federal law.

It doesn't make sense to start a new program at taxpayer expense (vouchers) when the existing system is hemmoraging.

The GI Bill, Pell Grants, student loans, both Presidents Bush, President Trump, the 25 states that allow parents to choose among public and private schools, Congress with its passage of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, 45 U.S. senators who voted in 2015 to allow states to use existing federal dollars for vouchers, Betsy DeVos — or her senate critics?

We must speak out and end these existing creationist voucher programs.

Informing parents about how and when they can enroll their children in voucher schools seems like a pretty «legitimate educational purpose» given that voucher programs have existed in Milwaukee since 1990, in Racine since 2011 and statewide since 2013, and the Republicans who control state government are thinking about expanding voucher availability again.

In reality, voucher programs expand and supplement existing rights under IDEA and result in greater accountability to students and increased parental satisfaction (Greene & Forster, 2003).

They want to cut $ 10.6 billion from existing programs and divert $ 1.4 billion to charter schools and to vouchers for private and religious schools.

Daniels also expanded the already existing Scholarship Tax Credit Program that gives tax credits to companies and individuals who make donations to «scholarship» organizations that, in turn, provide vouchers.

Title I «portability» proposals want to dismantle the existing program and turn it into a private school voucher: the money to help these public schools would instead «follow the child» to private schools.

A variety of school choice options exist today including tuition vouchers, private scholarship programs, and charter schools, which provide an alternative to the cookie - cutter district school model.

«The argument is that if we take monies by way of vouchers from the existing school corporations then we hurt their programs.

Mychal Thom, head of Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, estimated that at least half of his school's 366 voucher recipients last year would have enrolled at Concordia even if the voucher program did not exist.

IES's study of the D.C. voucher program is an important addition to existing voucher research.

In other states, the launch and expansion of voucher programs should be used by school choice supporters as an opportunity to team up with school data quality activists such as the Data Quality Campaign to push for the overhaul of existing data systems and the launch of new, more - comprehensive systems.

Most voucher programs lack accountability measures, and according to studies of voucher programs, many also lack proper oversight to ensure they meet the minimal standards that do exist.

The proposal would change the existing voucher funding system, which Vos proposed and was implemented for the first time this year after lawmakers revamped the system and removed the program's enrollment cap in the 2015 - 17 budget.