Sentences with phrase «expanded educational choice programs»
As of my last update in late September, 15 states had adopted 21 new or expanded educational choice programs, including three education savings account laws, clearly making 2015 the «Year of Educational Choice.»
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Georgia would be expanding its educational choice programs from the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship Program — a voucher program with more than 4,000 students participating in 2015 — 16 — and the Qualified Education Expense Tax Credit — a tax - credit scholarship with nearly 13,000 scholarships awarded in 2015 — into a universal educational choice program.
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Identifying the kinds of private schools that boost these outcomes could enhance policymakers» ability to design private school choice programs that expand disadvantaged children's access to high - quality educational opportunities.
As the evidence on school choice continues to grow, it is tempting to compare the results achieved by school voucher programs to those of charter schools — to ask whether one option or the other represents a more promising avenue for expanding educational opportunity.
Here is the (likely) final tally for new and expanded choice programs in 2015, as well as the private educational choice lawsuits decided this year or still pending:
Scholarship tax credits would expand educational opportunities for Idaho families, building on long - standing state policies encouraging private investments in education, as well as successful school choice programs in other states.
In the wake of Congressional action, state lawmakers should take up the baton to expand educational freedom by making choice programs like education scholarship accounts available to more families.
Families that participate in school choice programs are not the only ones who benefit from expanded educational options.
We hope policymakers, philanthropists, and practitioners of educational choice programs will look to these results as confirmation of the success of America's largest private school choice program and as encouragement to expand K - 12 options for families across the country.»
School choice programs, such as tax - credit scholarships, could greatly expand the number of low - income families who might access vital educational opportunities.
LFC is dedicated to promoting educational choice by protecting, growing and expanding options for Louisiana families, including the Louisiana Scholarship Program, one of the nation's most accountable and most popular choice programs.
«He has pledged to expand all educational choice options, including the Louisiana Scholarship Program.»
The Louisiana Federation for Children, a project of the American Federation for Children and the Alliance for School Choice, is dedicated to promoting educational choice by protecting, growing and expanding scholarship programs for low and middle - income chiChoice, is dedicated to promoting educational choice by protecting, growing and expanding scholarship programs for low and middle - income chichoice by protecting, growing and expanding scholarship programs for low and middle - income children.
The Louisiana Federation for Children is a project of the American Federation for Children and the AFC Growth Fund, dedicated to promoting educational choice by protecting, growing, and expanding scholarship programs for low and middle - income children.