Sentences with phrase «first federal voucher»

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

Not exact matches

The new plan would funnel federal money directly to one type of public college, taking a first step away from the existing voucher model and toward one that looks more like America's K - 12 system.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

Many Democrats see portability as the first step toward federal vouchers for private schools and argue that it would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty and profound needs to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

In Wisconsin, the governor raised the income eligibility limit on school vouchers in 2012 to 300 percent of the federal poverty level (again, that's $ 70,650 for a family of four), and families were no longer held to any income limits after the first year of receiving vouchers.

If there are more applications than available vouchers, priority will be given first to students who received vouchers in the previous year, second to students from families with incomes at or below 100 percent of the federal poverty level ($ 24,600 for a family of four in 2017 — 18) and third to students from families with incomes between 100 and 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

The appeals court first agreed with the trial court that the voucher programs did not run violate the Religion Clause, citing two Arizona Supreme Court cases, Community Council v. Jordan, 432 P. 2d 460 (Ariz. 1967), andKotterman v. Killian, 972 P. 2d 606 (1999), that suggested that Arizona's Religion Clause was «virtually indistinguishable from the United States Supreme Court's interpretation of the federal Establishment Clause.»

Trump's nominee to head the federal department of education is Betsy DeVos, chairwoman of the pro-school voucher group American Federation for Children and a big donor to Gov. Scott Walker, who has significantly expanded school vouchers in Wisconsin since he was first elected in 2010.

But their arguments could become relevant on the national stage when they contend the Colorado Supreme Court ruling, by prohibiting private religious K - 12 schools from accepting vouchers, is on a collision course with the federal First and Fourteenth Amendments.

ear after Maryland lawmakers created the state's first private school voucher program, indications are that the state is gearing up for big changes to address low - performing schools as education officials work to draft a plan to comply with the federal Every Student Succeeds Act.

But Jindal blasted the DOJ's letterbecause the central component of the lawsuit still stands: DOJ is still aiming to keep the program from granting vouchers next school year unless a federal court first approves parents» decisions about where they want to send their children to school.

The Justice Department is seeking to bar the awarding of these scholarships, also called vouchers, in public school systems that are under federal desegregation orders, unless the vouchers first are approved by a federal judge.