These results are certainly a bright spot for proponents of
expanding access to private school for disadvantaged children.
A new study from the Urban Institute finds that a Florida program designed to
expand access to private schools has helped more low income students enroll in college.
Won't
expanding access to private schools for disabled students impose significantly greater costs on the public?
Both expanded access to private school options and greater variety of options that students have in terms of the religious (or secular) affiliations of private schools are positively associated with public - school students» test scores following the introduction of the FTC program.
There are three main ways in which a program that
expands access to private schools could affect public school performance.
Proponents of vouchers and other measures that
expand access to private schooling often claim that competition from privately operated schools will spur student achievement — and, perhaps, lower costs — in public schools.
The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to
expand access to private schools.
Not exact matches
SR: Potential nonacademic benefits include
expanded access to job networks, more interracial friendships, and enhanced
access to educational networks, including
private schools and colleges.
The Lumina Foundation, an Indianapolis - based,
private, independent foundation, strives
to help people achieve their potential by
expanding access and success in education beyond high
school.
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.
We estimate that
private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families
to choose any traditional public
school in their district) have the largest potential
to expand the sets of
schools to which families have
access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice»
schools within five miles of home.
We estimate that intradistrict and
private school choice most
expand the sets of
schools to which families have
access, affecting up
to about 80 percent of families willing and able
to travel up
to five miles.
Such
private -
school outcomes are persuasive and have led countries around the world
to expand access to them.
This sliding scale of regulatory involvement allows for all qualified
private schools to access public funding and
expands private school access for low - income Louisiana families.
The implication is that with no government requirement for open admissions or standard measurement, historically higher - performing
private schools would
expand access to students eligible for vouchers.
This suggests that
school vouchers or other programmatic interventions that
expand families»
access to private schools have a good chance of boosting levels of parental satisfaction.
Capping tuition may be intended
to increase
access to more educational options, but the effect is
to discourage
private schools from
expanding or participating at all.
While the President's FY 2012 Budget requests funding
to improve D.C. public
schools and
expand high - quality public charter
schools, the Administration opposes targeting resources
to help a small number of individuals attend
private schools rather than creating
access to great public
schools for every child.
Will Betsy DeVos
expand access to charters and
private schools, shifting public money
to private and quasi-
private sectors?
The holdout senators this week released a list of budget demands that included
expanding access to private voucher
schools outside Milwaukee and Racine, operational changes
to the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, requiring counties or municipalities that enact wheel taxes
to do so by voter referendum and moving up the effective date of the budget's repeal of the state's prevailing wage requirement.
A Wiltshire academy that started a «grammar stream», giving a small group of children
access to specialist teachers and lectures at a nearby
private school, will continue the project for at least another year and may
expand the model.
Education Week reported: «Over the objections of teachers» unions and many Democrats, Louisiana's Republican governor and GOP - controlled legislature have crafted one of the most exhaustive education overhauls of any state in the country, through measures that will dramatically
expand families»
access to public money
to cover the costs of both
private school tuition and individual courses offered by a menu of providers.»
DeVos is a proponent of policies that
expand access to charter
schools and
private schools.
If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have
to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from
expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about
private primary and secondary
schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving
to a different neighborhood, or
to the suburbs,
to avoid sending our children
to school with kids who are not like them.
The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and
school choice activists in the Sunshine State
to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public
school dollars for
expanding access to high - quality
private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.
Like CAP, Weingarten drew parallels between the history of
private school vouchers and efforts today by the President and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos
to deny public
schools adequate funding while
expanding access to vouchers.