Sentences with phrase «funded vouchers for private schools»

(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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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

(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.)

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.

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.

«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.

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?»

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.

This is the same rationale used earlier this year by voucher opponents in the Wisconsin legislature, which cut funding for private schools in Milwaukee's school choice program and enacted a public school - style regulatory regime for those schools.

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

The poor, so this logic goes, need government assistance if they are to get a good education, which helps explain why, in the United States, many school choice enthusiasts believe that the only way the poor can get the education they deserve is through vouchers or charter schools, proxies for those better private or independent schools, paid for with public funds.

Private schools should be required to take vouchers as payment in full for their services: private schools should not be permitted to discriminate against families who are unable to top off the tuition with personalPrivate schools should be required to take vouchers as payment in full for their services: private schools should not be permitted to discriminate against families who are unable to top off the tuition with personalprivate schools should not be permitted to discriminate against families who are unable to top off the tuition with personal funds.

• Traditional public educators adamantly resist vouchers, which are publicly or privately funded scholarships to families for their children to attend private schools.

Romney's major proposal would expand school choice by essentially turning $ 15 billion in Title I funding and $ 12 billion in IDEA funds into «vouchers» that eligible students could spend to attend any district, charter, or private school (state law permitting) or for tutoring programs or digital courses.

Governor Romney has made the expansion of school choice for disadvantaged students central to his campaign, calling for the expansion of the Washington, D.C., voucher program and for allowing low - income and special education students to use federal funds to enroll in private schools.

For instance, a 2015 study of a privately funded voucher program in New York City found that being offered a voucher to attend a private school increased college enrollment rates among black and Hispanic students by 4.4 percentage points, a 10 percent gain relative to the control group, and also increased bachelor's degree completion rates among black and Hispanic students by 2.4 percentage points, a 27 percent gain.

Through this plan, any student who had been enrolled in district schools for at least one year could apply for a voucher of approximately $ 4,600, equal to 75 percent of state per - pupil funding, to attend a «partner» private school, with the school district keeping the other 25 percent.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

When combined with a federal tax loophole that allows taxpayers to receive a federal deduction on a dollar - for - dollar state tax credit, 10 of these states» credits are so lucrative that they allow some upper - income taxpayers to turn a profit (at federal taxpayer expense) on contributions they make to fund private school vouchers.

Private school vouchers, which provide public funds for students to attend K - 12 private schools, are one example of an education reform that introduces choice and compePrivate school vouchers, which provide public funds for students to attend K - 12 private schools, are one example of an education reform that introduces choice and compeprivate schools, are one example of an education reform that introduces choice and competition.

This targeted school voucher program provides funding for low - income, mostly minority students in the lowest - graded public schools to enroll in participating private schools.

Indiana's new voucher program that provides state - funded scholarships to private schools, the nation's broadest, is proving to be a boon for Roman Catholic schools that nationwide have been struggling against dwindling enrollment numbers for years.

Proponents of vouchers and tax policies that fund private schooling argue that for the types of students they often serve — low - income children, students with disabilities, and students in low - performing schools — it's a good investment to let parents choose a setting they think will best serve their children's needs.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

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

This targeted school voucher program has provided public funds for low - income students in low - performing public schools to enroll in participating private schools since the 2012 - 13 school year.

«Vouchers in any form divert tax money to private schools or homeschoolers and take it from under - funded public schools, where the vast majority of school children will continue to be educated,» said Clay Robison, a spokesman for the Texas State Teachers Association.

When only funding for private schools is mentioned, Christians and non-Christians react similarly, with 52 % and 51 % opposing vouchers, respectively.

Ms. DeVos, a wealthy Republican donor, has spent decades promoting publicly funded, privately run charter schools and vouchers for low - income students to use to attend private and religious schools.

«The DCSD voucher program took taxpayer funds, intended for public education, and used that money to pay for private school education for a few select students.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

ESAs are distinct from vouchers because parents can use the funds for different education services, while vouchers can only be used for private school tuition.

School construction, smaller class sizes, and barring federally funded private school vouchers should be top priorities for Congress next year, Ms. Lincoln, a Democrat and former member of the House, declared in thanking the group for its endorsSchool construction, smaller class sizes, and barring federally funded private school vouchers should be top priorities for Congress next year, Ms. Lincoln, a Democrat and former member of the House, declared in thanking the group for its endorsschool vouchers should be top priorities for Congress next year, Ms. Lincoln, a Democrat and former member of the House, declared in thanking the group for its endorsement.

The income limit for many District of Columbia families of students who have received federally funded private school vouchers will go up under a measure approved by Congress last week.

The impacts of the first private school voucher programs in the South still reverberate today in battles for adequate and equitable funding of public education.

The rise of private schools in the South and the diversion of public funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfare Fund.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

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.»

The school - choice legislation signed by Rosselló allows for the establishment of charter schools and voucher programs to fund private school.