Sentences with phrase «help send children to private schools»

A superior court judge ruled last week that using taxpayer dollars to help send children to private schools is unconstitutional.

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Cuomo had wanted an education tax credit that would benefited donors who give up to $ 1 million to help send poor children to private schools.

The credits cut taxes on businesses that donate to non-profit scholarship organizations, and those organizations help needy families who want to send their children to private schools.

It's too soon to draw sweeping conclusions about the academic impact of privately financed programs that provide vouchers to help needy families send their children to private schools, the General Accounting Office concludes in a recent report.

In 2010 and 2011, we asked instead about «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help parents send their children to private schools,» language that implies the scholarships could be used by any family, regardless of income.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

• When not given a neutral option, 73 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 27 % opposed.

• 57 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 16 % opposed.

School voucher programs, which allow eligible families to send their children to private schools with the help of public funds, have sparked controversy since the first such initiative was launched in Milwaukee in 1991.

Kast says she and her daughter, Jacob's mother, could not afford to send him to a private school established to help children with special needs.

The program, also known as Opportunity Scholarships, uses taxpayer dollars to help low - income families send their children to private schools.

When asked whether they favored or opposed a proposal to offer a «tax credit for individuals and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools,» 53 percent responded favorably while only 29 percent expressed opposition.

This past legislative session, these charter school and education reform entities spent in excess of $ 500,000 successfully persuading legislators to cut their own district's public school funding, at the same time they were sending even more taxpayer money to Connecticut's charter schools, despite the fact that these private institutions have traditionally refused to educate their fair share of students who need special education services, children who require help learning the English Language or those who have behavioral issues.

This may sound like a reasonable option for parents interested in sending their children to private schools, but in reality the plan would do little to help many families with the cost.

60 percent of Americans and 59 percent of parents «completely» or «somewhat» support «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» (Education Next 2014).

They would be able to send their children to the local public school, or they can receive a voucher valued at roughly $ 600 and use it to help pay for tuition at a private or parochial school, or at a public school in another district.