Sentences with phrase «goals of school vouchers»

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To support student outcomes, appropriate uses of public funds, and democratic goals when offering private school vouchers, states can:

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The bill eliminates certain standards, one of which participating schools must achieve — either that 70 percent of voucher students advance one grade level, 80 percent demonstrate significant academic progress, average attendance rates among participants of 90 percent or 70 percent of voucher parents meet participation goals.

We added to this literature by investigating the impact of the Swedish voucher scheme on a fundamental democratic goal of schooling, social cohesion, measured as civic attitudes of students toward ethnic minorities and immigrants.

In service of the goals of its benefactor, WILL has undertaken an aggressive campaign of actual and threatened litigation to ward off scrutiny of and crackdowns on voucher program abuses, to force taxpayers to underwrite transportation for private school voucher students and to advocate for further expansion of the voucher program in the media and with the release of pseudo-science.

Arne Duncan, education secretary under President Barack Obama, was a supporter of charter schools (though not vouchers) but still spoke about the need for — and the aspirational goals of — public education.

«My goal is to give parents options,» said Robert Enlow, president of EdChoice, an Indianapolis - based organization that advocates for vouchers and other programs that allow tax dollars to pay private - school tuition.

While Louisiana's proficiency goal is for all students to be Basic and above, in the voucher schools, only 35 % of 3rd graders and 29 % of 4th graders earned scores indicating they are grade level proficient in reading.

The goal of the voucher program, of course, is to help ensure low - income youth aren't tethered to their often under - resourced and under - performing neighborhood schools.

While vouchers were initially billed as a social mobility ticket for minority or disadvantaged students, «universal vouchers» for all families — rich and poor — attending both private and religious schools, are now openly the goal of ALEC and most school voucher proponents.

DOJ contends that the goal of the lawsuit isn't to shut down Louisiana's school voucher program.

Proponents of vouchers in Tennessee have stated that their ultimate goal is no limitations on voucher eligibility, so that even high - income families can take money from the public school budget to send their children to private school.