Sentences with phrase «funded vouchers for»

(from The New York Times) Some advocates for school choice saw a Supreme Court ruling issued Monday as a «game changer» in the debate over publicly funded vouchers for private schools.

DeVos» strong support for taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and parochial schools has intensified trepidation about her nomination in New York.

Publicly funded vouchers for private schools evolved from conservative dream to on - the - ground reality.

Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center: Still No Accountability with Taxpayer - funded Vouchers for Private and Religious School Tuition (2017)

But school choice advocates across the nation saw the decision as a game changer in the divisive debate over publicly funded vouchers for private religious schools.

Some people - including President - elect Donald Trump - believe that to improve U.S. education, the nation should stop spending so many tax dollars on public schools and instead invest in alternatives, including charter schools and taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and religious schools.

Both lawmakers, whom Humphries referred to as his campaign co-chairmen, have been supportive of the expansion of taxpayer - funded vouchers for private schools.

The new Special Needs Act has set aside more than $ 3 - million worth of state - funded vouchers for about 430 of Mississippi's roughly 60,000 students with disabilities.

Take D.C., which has one of the country's most robust set of educational options for parents — public schools, charter schools and federally funded vouchers for private schools.

Even if their income levels increased in year two or beyond, families could still receive the taxpayer - funded vouchers for use at private schools.

Q: The budget would gradually lift the 1,000 - student cap on taxpayer - funded vouchers for private schools under the statewide program.

She also met with lawmakers who are considering a bill to expand statewide a program offering tax - funded vouchers for private school tuition.

Proponents of a measure that would provide poor families in Arizona with state - funded vouchers for private school tuition hope to coax enough support from lawmakers this week to encourage Gov. Fife Symington to call a special legislative session to act on the plan.

DeVos» strong support for taxpayer - funded vouchers for private and parochial schools has intensified trepidation about her nomination in New York.

A new South Dakota law allows insurance companies sizable tax credits if they fund vouchers for students to attend private schools, but companies have yet to put forth the cash.

One example is the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which federally funds vouchers for low - income children to attend private schools in Washington D.C..

Not exact matches

In addition to the significant rebates we provide insurance plans (including those who offer high deductible plans) to secure formulary positions, we fund co-pay cards and vouchers that commercially - insured patients can use for up to two years to offset those out - of - pocket costs they're incurring.»

Another possibility is expanding school choice by providing vouchers for poor families to attend better - funded schools in rich neighborhoods.

Sarepta chief Ed Kaye says that the money raised from its review voucher sale will go into funding R&D for future muscular dystrophy treatments.

Shipments containing cash or other means of payment, precious metals, art work, jewelry, watches, precious stones or other articles of value or securities for which, in the event of damage, no stoppage and no cancellation and replacement procedure can be carried out; for the avoidance of doubt the following valuable goods are exempted from this rule: Shipments using the Registered Mail special service, which contain stamps, telephone cards, vouchers for goods and low - value goods in these classes (e.g. fashion jewelry and promotional articles), up to an actual value of 30 Special Drawing Rights of the International Monetary Fund (SDR) per shipment, and individual tickets and entrance tickets;

An ESA is like a school voucher because it offers eligible families state - funded access to private school tuition, but unlike a school voucher, the ESA deposits money into an account that families can use for other expenses besides school tuition — for transportation or education - related technology, for example.

Public health minister Anne Milton had been exploring options to replace the free milk funding with more money for the Healthy Start voucher.

These have all yielded no conclusions, as the payment vouchers to support the fact that the endowment fund monies were used for operational purposes were never provided.

Given that he was (unfairly) attacked for not paying capital gains tax when he was not liable for it, I wonder if that makes whether or not to use one of the last full Child Trust Fund vouchers a dilemma for him?

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

«If you are going to be a Democrat and you believe in bread - and - butter Democratic issues like funding public schools, you should do that and not keep — you've got to fund the schools better and not keep siphoning off money for vouchers and charters,» Nixon said.

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.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

The Governor also touched on familiar themes such as his education plan which included more overall funding for schools, expanding school choice as well as the state's voucher program and pre-K.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

Around 30 % of parents do not use their child trust fund voucher (worth # 250, or more if they are poor) to open a savings account for their new born child.

Vouchers are provided to a PI of a funded equipment grant to pay for use of the equipment if it's placed in a core.

Still, Black persevered, thanks largely to his old friend Joel Silver, who vouched for the filmmaker and secured funding from Warner Bros..

Now, according to a poll just released by Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, vouchers that use taxpayer funds for low - income students to attend private schools gathered support from 43 % of the public, with only 31 % opposed.

The subject of high - profile lawsuits and heated political rhetoric, vouchers tend to split people into two camps — those who believe they are a valuable tool for helping disadvantaged children escape failing public schools and those who charge that they strip funds from public schools...

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

Half our sample was instead asked a question about vouchers that did not mention wider choice for families but referred to the use of «government funds» for private - school tuition.

I simulate the effects of using all Title I funds appropriated in FY2015 for vouchers to Title I - eligible (poor) school - aged children.

The «government funds» question fetches very low levels of support when respondents are asked about vouchers for all families.

«Position A: Government should give parents more educational choices by providing taxpayer - funded vouchers to help pay for private or religious schools.

In fact, when Congress passed a private school voucher program for Washington, D.C., alongside new funding for the district and charter sectors, the overall reform plan was called the «three - sector approach.»

This would include funding for a pilot private - school voucher program, new money for charter schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to the public school of their choice.

But though fabricated out of thin air, the court nevertheless used its new exclusivity doctrine to stop the legislature from running its publicly - funded K - 12 voucher program for a general student population.

The new version of the «at public expense» question asked, «Would you vote for or against a system giving parents government - funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at a private school?»

The second PDK item became the following: «Would you vote for or against a system giving parents the option of using government - funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at the public, private, or religious school of their choice?»

Unlike state - subsidized voucher programs, which are funded by collected tax revenues, this program bypasses state coffers by giving corporations a dollar - for - dollar tax break when they contribute to a scholarship funding organization.

The underlying reason is that instead of funding the vouchers out of the savings to the state's general fund, 45 percent of voucher expenditures are still deducted from Milwaukee's state aid, even though their aid has not included funds for voucher students since 2000.

In fact, by draining critical funds from public schools, the voucher program obstructs Brown «s mandate for states to educate all «on equal terms.»

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.