Sentences with phrase «improvements over school vouchers»

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These higher rates of educational attainment due to the Milwaukee voucher program represent improvements of 15 — 20 percent over the rates obtained by the comparison group of public - school students — nearly as large as those for the African American students in the New York City study.

The ECT will acknowledge that School Voucher programs are not 100 % perfect — however we continue to believe (as demonstrated in other States today) that putting Parents in charge with School Vouchers and market based competition between neighboring Schools will be a big improvement over what Colorado has today.

The study found that students from particular demographics were even less likely to use a voucher: just over half (51 percent) of high school students awarded a voucher used it the next year, and only 63 % of students from «schools in need of improvement» (the target students for the program) who recieved a voucher used it the next year.

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

Many families may not have the tools to assess which voucher options are improvements over public schools, versus those that are simply online schools with poor state oversight, like some of the poor - performing charter schools in Ohio.

A key improvement of ESAs over school vouchers and tax credits is that funds not used for K - 12 educational purposes can be «saved» or rolled over each year and used for continuing or higher education, thus changing the «use it or lose it» mentality in the current public school funding system.