Sentences with phrase «financed vouchers for private schools»

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Florida's teachers union struck out Wednesday in its latest effort to dismantle a tax credit scholarship program as the state's Supreme Court rejected the union's appeal for legal standing to challenge the voucher - like program that finances students from low - performing schools who want to attend private schools.

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.»

In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.47

The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating funding for scores of K - 12, higher education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I portability programs and private school vouchers.25

The Advocate Louisiana Legislature uses Sunday to prepare for final drive to adjournment «House approved legislation Sunday night that revamped how donors would be able to write off state taxes to finance private school vouchers.»

The version approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week included flat funding for public schools, expanded private voucher schools attendance, continued teacher licensing, conversion of some Milwaukee schools to charter or private voucher schools, reduced transportation spending, huge slashing on the University of Wisconsin's funding, and elimination of 60 guard tower positions in the state's prisons.

Complicating matters for public school finance directors and special education providers is a new voucher program enacted by lawmakers last year that, beginning this fall, will funnel money out of public coffers into private educational settings.

For instance, Chile has both municipal and private subsidized schools financed through vouchers.8 In South Korea, government funding of private schools has been present since the end of the Korean War.9 The first nine years of education are compulsory schooling «free» of charge, and the finance of private schools is almost entirely dependent upon the government.10 Recently, this has also been extended in part to private high schools.11