Sentences with phrase «for voucher schemes»

As a result, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) today stressed that the proposals for a voucher scheme were still at a preliminary stage, and said the final details of the contract would not be finalised until February.

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Martin Keown is supporting McDonald's coaching voucher scheme, offering anyone in football, the chance to apply for one of 500 coaching vouchers each worth # 100.

Some pregnant women are entitled to free vitamin supplements and vouchers for milk, fruit and vegetables, and infant formula milk and under the Healthy Start scheme.

Yes, you might be able to take advantage of a childcare voucher scheme to pay for childcare.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has urged the Government to provide greater clarity to parents on the many recent and planned changes to child support.1 The tax campaigners are concerned that the childcare support landscape has become very complex and it is difficult for parents to understand how schemes are supposed to interact, such as tax credits, the planned tax free childcare (TFC), universal credit, free childcare entitlement and childcare vouchers.

The Government had previously announced in the 2016 Budget that it intended to close childcare vouchers for brand new applicants from 6 April 2018, with the new Tax - Free Childcare (TFC) scheme providing help with childcare costs instead.

«Although TFC will eventually replace the tax and national insurance relief associated with childcare vouchers, the rules for the TFC scheme are different.

Proposals, which are also sought for these clusters, are expected to cover a variety of activities such as studentships, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Third Sector placements and a voucher scheme designed to allow Third Sector organisations to «buy in» academic expertise.

The «One World Conservatism» green paper also proposes «payment by results» funding for agencies and a controversial scheme concerning aid vouchers, which would give impoverished communities choice over the help they receive.

The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has started a scheme of offering modest rewards - such as shopping vouchers - for DCLG civil servants who come up with innovative, thrifty ideas that saves taxpayers» money.

In October 2001, he had to apologise after speaking up in favour of Home Secretary David Blunkett's abolition of the voucher scheme for asylum seekers.

«The Trust is recommending that the government introduce a means - tested voucher scheme to enable lower income families to provide tuition for their children.»

Private schools that elected to participate by accepting vouchers as payment also had to administer the Louisiana state assessment to voucher - receiving students and were graded by the state using the same A-F scheme the state used for its public schools.

«The funders are the same organizations trying to dismantle public education in North Carolina through private school voucher schemes and for - profit management organizations.

One of its changes is to bar for - profit schools from the voucher scheme.

Dismantling our nation's public education system while investing in unproven schemes to incentivize private school vouchers that have no evidence of improving student achievement could have devastating consequences for students that could take decades to fix.

«If the Court does not rule against these voucher schemes, it will strengthen efforts that seek to erode school board members» ability to prepare all students for success in the 21st century.»

In Milwaukee, which has been disproportionately burdened in a statewide voucher funding scheme, the city has had to raise property taxes several times in order to ensure adequate funding for the city's schools.

Despite the fact that 90 percent of students attend public schools, this budget dramatically reduces funding for these schools in favor of a massive investment of $ 1 billion — four times the amount in last year's proposal — in ineffective private school voucher schemes, putting the most vulnerable students at risk.

And those offering vouchers, performance pay schemes, and other unproven policies should not be faulted for at least making an effort to change the numbers.

Instead of looking to improve education for all children, he parroted failed voucher and privatization schemes that have not improved student learning.

A new vehicle for carrying vouchers (HB1049 / SB999) is the chosen method for implementing a voucher scheme in Tennessee.

These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

But now he's so much of a big, fat voucher proponent that he even threw a party at his Castle Rock home in May of this year when Douglas County passed their faux - charter - for - vouchers scheme.

The charter effort to strip elected school boards of their right to approve and negotiate contracts also died in committee as did a confusing Return on Investment grading scheme for public schools, which exempted for - profit charters and private voucher schools.

The Trust is recommending that the government introduce a means - tested voucher scheme to provide tuition for their children.

What they know is that their universal voucher scheme (i.e., a voucher in every backpack), where public dollars flow directly to families rather than schools, makes it impossible for a public school infrastructure to survive.

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

For at least two reasons, we initially suspected that the expansion of the Swedish voucher scheme would be accompanied by a decline in social cohesion.

It's past time for a long, careful look at the troubling voucher scheme in North Carolina.

«Legislative Republicans are literally proposing to launder money for private voucher schools through our public schools with their latest scheme,» said OWN executive director Scot Ross in a statement.

Parents for Educational Freedom NC (PEFNC)-- a pro-voucher lobby in North Carolina that receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family — has made campaign contributions to Stam and has even flown him and other lawmakers to Florida in 2013 to learn more about that state's own voucher scheme.

The scheme would funnel public funds out of public schools and into private schools by allowing parents to use a voucher to pay for some or all of their child's private school tuition.

For starters, if the court rules in FEA's favor, striking down Florida's voucher program, it will be very difficult for reformers in this state to convert the current corporate tax credit scheme to the much broader next generation Choice 2.0 Education Savings Accounts (ESFor starters, if the court rules in FEA's favor, striking down Florida's voucher program, it will be very difficult for reformers in this state to convert the current corporate tax credit scheme to the much broader next generation Choice 2.0 Education Savings Accounts (ESfor reformers in this state to convert the current corporate tax credit scheme to the much broader next generation Choice 2.0 Education Savings Accounts (ESA).

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

For example, ALEC is a big supporter of vouchers and tuition tax credit schemes which use public dollars to subsidize tuition at private or religious schools.

She has lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers — which take away funding and local control from our public schools — to fund private schools at taxpayers» expense.

Or will that money be used to correct the currently unconstitutional funding mechanism for Adam Laxalt and Brian Sandoval's school voucher scheme or Education Savings Accounts?

Funded by major Wall Street executives and the education reform foundations, DFER and its related entities lobby for charter schools, the Common Core testing scheme, teacher evaluations based on scores and school vouchers.

Though marketed as distinct from traditional school vouchers, the ESA is simply different dressing on a familiar scheme to redirect public taxpayer dollars to pay for private, unregulated, and unaccountable services.

Talking Points for Local School Board Members Use these talking points to let your Senators and Representatives know that you oppose draining critical resources from public schools to fund school vouchers and other voucher schemes:

In what may yet prove a canny move, Tesco is making the device available under its Clubcard Boost scheme, doubling the value of shoppers» vouchers and club card points which, Tesco hopes, will reduce the price to under # 100 for many buyers.

Fruit and Veg: Healthy Start is a scheme which gives # 3.10 / week in vouchers if you're pregnant or have kids under four (# 6.20 / week for babies under 1) to buy milk and fresh or frozen fruit & veg.

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Sign up for loyalty schemes and start using them, make use of vouchers and keep your eyes open for free and cheap entertainment.

This scheme involves our supporters earning Lifelines when purchasing items in Pets at Home stores, which is then converted into vouchers for our branches and centres to spend in their local store.

Sterilisation as a means of controlling the community cat population has been carried out by members of the public using their own resources, with support from the Cat Welfare Society's reimbursement scheme and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's sterilisation voucher scheme for the past 7 years.

Under its new «money - focused» scheme, South African Airways is really pushing members to use miles for non-airline awards, such as car rentals, spa vouchers and retail products.

Communication initiatives include SHOUTback, a digital publication that outlines all of the firm's fundraising and PR activities, while the Above and Beyond scheme provides each staff member with vouchers to award to colleagues, with six employees shortlisted for a platinum award each quarter.

Perks: Private medical insurance, group life assurance scheme, auto - enrolment pension scheme, employee assistance programme, 25 days» holiday, plus bank and public holidays, day off for your birthday, unique shared ownership and bonus scheme, flexible working and family friendly policies, childcare vouchers, cycle to work scheme, opportunity to join a number of social clubs - free or minimal cost, enhanced maternity and paternity pay