Sentences with phrase «for voucher recipients»

Until now, random - assignment studies have almost unanimously found positive impacts for voucher recipients generally or particular subgroups, especially those that had been the most choice deprived (e.g., low - income minorities).

More commonly they funnel students into less selective religious schools and spur the creation of new minority - dominated private schools for voucher recipients, effectively a privatization.

First systematic analysis of long - term results for voucher recipients tracks 99 % of students in original program

Not exact matches

«Some recipients would do fine with vouchers that they could use for any social services,» Olasky explains, «but it would be irresponsible to place unconstrained vouchers in the hands of addicts, alcoholics, and others not committed to changing their lives.»

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

I can send the voucher to you via email for delivery or direct to the recipient via snail - mail for a more personal touch!

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Beth Finkel, AARP New York State Director Beth Finkel will discuss Congressional proposals to create a voucher system for Medicare recipients with a projected 15,000 AARP members from across New York in a tele town hall.

One idea calls for creation of a voucher system, where recipients would negotiate with private insurers to get the best price.

When we spoke with Vicki Been, who heads up the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which administers the Section 8 program, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600» from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

When we spoke with HPD commissioner Vicki Been last month, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600 ″ from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

The inadequate number of eligible applicants has led federal officials to drop plans for a study that would have compared the achievement of voucher recipients with that of students who requested the grants but didn't receive them.

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.

Our analysis of the Louisiana Scholarship Program reveals that the vouchers used by the subset of recipients for whom information is available have supported public - school desegregation efforts.

Indeed, since the vast majority of voucher recipients are black, a victory for the DOJ would have meant keeping black students trapped in failing schools.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

At the two year mark, they found no significant achievement effects for students who were offered vouchers, but their third - year results found voucher recipients making outsized reading gains.

The Administration is being dishonest about the evaluation data, which show strong positive effects for the recipients of the DC vouchers.

At the time of the NBER study (2012 - 13), more than eight in ten of the more than 6,000 voucher recipients were African - American and the average annual family income of LSP participants was less than $ 18,000, considerably below the income eligibility cap of 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 57,625 for a family of four in 2012).

[2] rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com../Desktop/Public%20School%20Options.pdf

North Carolina public education backers are fired up this week over a new round of advocacy at the N.C. General Assembly that seems geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.

Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would allow siblings of current Choice Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.

The effort, according to education reporter Billy Ball, is «geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.»

For the academic year 2016 - 17, school voucher recipients comprised 60 percent of Trinity Christian's enrollment, according to state records.

The new rules preserve that requirement for most families, but would allow two groups — special needs students and siblings of current voucher recipients — to receive a scholarship without attending public school first.

This is particularly true for the form of vouchers espoused by DeVos, in which recipient schools would face no accountability and could even force students to waive their civil rights under federal law.

Meanwhile, the GOP - authored House package bundles in accountability reforms for the state's growing private school voucher program sought by Democrats, allocating about $ 900,000 to study voucher students» gains or losses and requiring that voucher recipients in grades 3 - 12 participate in one designated standardized test for comparison purposes.

Public education advocates and lawmakers like Cotham feared such requirements would be imposed upon potential recipients of state vouchers when funding for the program was bundled into the state's budget bill in 2013.

The IES evaluation is the first of three of this cohort of D.C. voucher recipients; the next one is slated for release in the next year or so and will evaluate student outcomes after two years in the voucher program.

The seven target districts would be responsible for the costs of transporting a voucher recipient to the new school.

But five years after the program was established, more than half of the state's voucher recipients have never attended Indiana public schools, meaning that taxpayers are now covering private and religious school tuition for children whose parents had previously footed that bill.

Most recipients are not leaving the state's worst schools: Just 3 percent of new recipients of vouchers in 2015 qualified for them because they lived in the boundaries of F - rated public schools.

A House budget proposal would at least partially take up that criticism, setting aside $ 1 million for an independent report on voucher recipients» academic outcomes and requiring that voucher students take part in a national, standardized test.

Inside, along with offers for high dollar vacation packages and luxury car rental vouchers, is a certificate from Halo, Purely for Pets ®, entitling each recipient to donate 10,000 free bowls of Halo natural pet food to the animal shelter or rescue of their choice!

Once the lucky recipient of the gift voucher decides on the preferred travel dates, it is required for him / her to contact our reservations team providing a copy of the voucher for verification purposes.

Therefore if you choose to purchase a one night voucher only, the recipient will need to pay for an extra night themselves if they wish to use the voucher for a stay that includes a Friday or Saturday night.

Moreover, Delta transportation vouchers are non-transferrable: the recipient has to be one of the passengers on the reservation — although excess funds can be used to pay for additional passengers on the same reservation.