Sentences with phrase «financed tuition vouchers»

The study showed that African - American students who had won privately financed tuition vouchers in a 1997 lottery scored 5.5 national percentile points higher on...

Less than a month into their legislative session, Florida lawmakers are knee - deep in debate over a plan to provide taxpayer - financed tuition vouchers to students in the state's most academically troubled schools.

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After weeks in legislative limbo, a plan to provide federally financed, $ 7,500 tuition vouchers for children in the District of Columbia appeared late last week to be headed for passage in Congress.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Owens last month, will provide state - financed vouchers of up to $ 5,000 to low - income students in low - performing urban districts to pay for tuition at religious or other private schools.

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.»

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.