Sentences with phrase «including tuition vouchers»

A variety of school choice options exist today including tuition vouchers, private scholarship programs, and charter schools, which provide an alternative to the cookie - cutter district school model.

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A third possible direction goes back to diversity and individualism — through privatization, including such mechanisms as tuition tax credits, vouchers (enabling students to opt out of the public school system), and home schooling.

In contrast to vouchers (which are used for private school tuition), ESAs are accounts that families can use for a variety of education expenses — including tuition, online classes, tutoring, educational therapy services — or to contribute to a 529 college savings plan.

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.

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

The choice movement, which includes vouchers for private school tuition and the creation of charter schools, sought better education through the market mechanism of having parents choose which schools their children would attend.

In addition to vouchers, the category of private school choice now includes tuition tax credit programs, a legislative maneuver that lets business redirect taxes owed to the state toward «scholarships» for student tuition at private and religious schools.

In the same post, Ravitch quotes a Pennsylvania Republican who warns that Alexander's package only includes $ 2,100 dollars per voucher, meaning that the «school district of record» must provide the rest of the tuition.

The same President Bush established a program in Washington, D.C., that provides tuition vouchers for students to attend private, including religious, schools.

In addition to school vouchers, REACH advocates and educates the public on the benefits of tuition tax credits, charter schools (including cyber charter schools) and home schooling.

One requirement for private schools to participate in the voucher program includes providing the state with documentation of the tuition and fees the school charges.

The institute aims to make big changes to the state's education system, including ending teacher tenure and enacting vouchers in the form of «tuition tax credits,» along with other efforts that critics say would privatize education in the state.

Varieties of private choice options include full school - choice options (vouchers), special needs vouchers, tuition tax credit programs, and privately sponsored choice scholarship programs.

Rather than giving the taxpayer funds directly to the private school like traditional vouchers, the government deposits taxpayer funds into an «education savings account» that the parents can use for various educational purposes, including tuition at private, religious schools.

This all took place right after the Wisconsin Supreme Court had passed a ruling allowing low - income children in Milwaukee to utilize a state voucher to pay for their tuition to attend any school of their choice, including faith - based schools.

Because the bill included a $ 75 million tax credit (voucher) program to provide public funds to private school tuition coupons.

Some programs offer as little as $ 2,500 for a year of tuition and other programs offer close to $ 30,000.29 The average tuition of private schools across the country is $ 10,740, which does not include any additional services.30 For nonreligious schools, that number is much higher — $ 21,810.31 In most cases, parents are responsible for paying the difference between the tuition costs and the amount provided by the voucher.

Under such a program, funds typically spent by a school district would be allocated to a participating family in the form of a voucher to pay partial or full tuition for their child's private school, including both religious and non-religious options.

In addition to engaging, well - structured lessons, your tuition includes a voucher to cover the cost of the CMAA exam ($ 115 value).