At least three
federal voucher initiatives are in the works or have been proposed in recent weeks.
The OSP is the only
federal voucher initiative.
Not exact matches
It would offer individuals and / or corporations a
federal tax credit if they donated to scholarship (i.e.,
voucher) programs in states with their own tax credit
initiatives.
This approach has several advantages over
vouchers funded out of the
federal budget: no existing
federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure
federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.
The death of a small
federal school - integration
initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school
vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.
With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a
federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and
voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.
President Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from
federal education
initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for
vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.
Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools,
vouchers and other «school choice»
initiatives.
You have in your packet a blue sheet that gives you the order of the day, so I won't belabor that too much, but I will just remind you that we're going to start out with a session on history this morning; then go to a lunchtime segment that will focus on some of the relevant
federal constitutional issues, including evaluations of the
federal attacks on and defenses of the Blaine amendments; then we will finish off the day with a session that will focus on litigation strategy related to these amendments and some of the arguments being made for and against them in that litigation, as well as a focus on how debates over faith - based
initiatives and school
vouchers are affected by these particular state constitutional restrictions.
President Donald Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from
federal education
initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for
vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.
In a similar proposal to last year, the Trump administration said Monday that it wants to spend more
federal dollars on a school choice program — which includes private school
vouchers — and less on after - school
initiatives and teacher training.