Sentences with phrase «including voucher programs»

DeVos was among President Donald Trump's more controversial cabinet nominees in part because of her strong support for school choice alternatives, including voucher programs.

Louisiana recently passed a trigger law as part of a package of reforms that included voucher program expansion.

In 1988, Gov. Thompson vetoed legislation to increase funding for the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and provide additional teachers to reduce class size — but he included a voucher program proposal in his state budget.

In Douglas County south of Denver, voters who in 2009 and 2013 supported conservative reformers for the school board voted against three of them who had pushed controversial measures, including a voucher program.

As a district of choice, Orleans families have multiple education options, including the voucher program.

Not exact matches

The Comptroller General of the United States (referred to in this section as the Comptroller General) shall conduct a study addressing the effectiveness and overall impact of the following priority review voucher programs, including any such programs amended or established by this Act:

HUD today unveiled plans for a major overhaul of its rental assistance programs — including Section 8 Tenant - Based Rental Assistance, Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers and Section 8 Project - Based Rental Assistance — to help the agency meet its budget goals.

l Includes housing choice vouchers, Section 8 project - based rental assistance and housing certificate fund, public - housing operating subsidies, public - housing capital subsidies, and rural rental assistance program.

Proposals for a second term included a «minority job voucher program» and a «faith based office in the state government... to provide resources» to» faith based organizations.»

The Trump administration's «skinny» education budget includes what Mulgrew called «a billion - dollar voucher program» and cuts to after - school and summer programs [see page 3].

The tax credit's opponents — including the state's teachers unions — contend the proposal would ultimately hurt public schools and is a back - door voucher program.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

The Governor also touched on familiar themes such as his education plan which included more overall funding for schools, expanding school choice as well as the state's voucher program and pre-K.

Democrats contended that the race in New York's 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

School choice supporters, including hundreds of private school students in crisp uniforms, filled Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza last May to protest a congressional decision to eliminate the city's federally funded school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click here).

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.

Hess's other case studies include the state - funded voucher program in Cleveland and a privately funded scholarship program in the Edgewood district of San Antonio, Texas.

The research included in this volume suggests that vouchers and faith - based programs had slightly positive effects relative to the traditional education systems in several nations (for instance, Chile, Columbia, and Sierra Leone), but the volume also includes some evidence that serves to counter an overly - optimistic view of PPPs.

Florida's choice strategy also included the creation of the nation's largest voucher program — the McKay Scholarship Program — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged chprogram — the McKay Scholarship Program — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged chProgram — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged children.

The predictions come as Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, and other voucher supporters are exploring ways to keep the affected program afloat, including by attempting to amend the state constitution.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court last week upheld a 1995 state law that expanded the pioneering Milwaukee voucher program to include religious schools.

In a feature article for the winter 2010 issue of Education Next, education researchers Jay P. Greene and Stuart Buck of the University of Arkansas, drawing on extensive previous research on the effects of special education vouchers, dispel several common myths about these programs and show how they have benefited handicapped children in states where they have been enacted, including those not in private placements.

Critics of the program, including the National Education Association, say they plan to appeal — and that's fine with voucher supporters.

Today, 28 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) operate 54 private - school - choice programs, which include not only government - issued vouchers but also -LSB-...]

There are two major concerns: a proposed $ 20 billion federal school - voucher program and DeVos's longtime advocacy for more - rigorous academic standards, which has included support for organizations advancing Common Core State Standards.

Since the early 1990s, Milwaukee has been home to an increasingly varied array of school choice programs that now includes the nation's oldest voucher program, numerous charter schools, and extensive inter - and intra-district public - school choice systems.

Defenders of the status quo in education routinely label certain proposed reforms — including tax credits, voucher programs, for - profit education management organizations (or EMOs), and charter schooling — as «anti-public education,» often to great effect.

One in four state charter laws includes a desegregation clause, and some voucher programs, like Cleveland's, were begun to address what desegregation orders had not.

Applicants during the early years of the program were included in a federally mandated evaluation that compared students who won the voucher lottery to those who applied but lost.

But the country's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, still frets that the program lacks sufficient accountability for results: «Voucher students are not included in state assessments, so taxpayers have no way of knowing how the voucher funds have been spent, and how students have fared.»

This comparative advantage resulted directly from the 1998 expansion of the voucher program to include religious schools, according to my research with George Mitchell.

Heavy regulation caused two - thirds of the private schools in Louisiana to refuse to participate in the state's voucher program, including most of the best private schools in the state.

Using the most conservative 4 % voucher advantage from our study, that means that the 801 students in ninth grade in the voucher program in 2006 included 32 extra graduates who wouldn't have completed high school and gone to college if they had instead been required to attend MPS.

Unveiled last month, it includes such items as a school - voucher demonstration program and a «religious equality» constitutional amendment that would likely affect...

Programs that enable students to attend private schools, including both vouchers and scholarships funded with tax credits, have become increasingly common in recent years.

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.

Information about local district rankings increases public support for school choice programs, including charter schools, parent trigger mechanisms, and, especially, school vouchers for all students.

Hailing what he sees as California's bounce back from the brink of economic oblivion, an upbeat Gov. Pete Wilson proposed last week that the state pay for several new education programs, including a school - voucher plan.

Still, there are a handful of examples of school choice programs that diminished achievement but improved high school graduation rates, including the Milwaukee voucher program and a set of Texas charter schools.

The Milwaukee movement would experience another major victory six years later when the voucher program was expanded to include religious schools.

Indeed, while Zelman established that states enacting voucher programs may include religious schools, a decision in favor of Trinity Lutheran could imply that they must.

The main findings were not affected when the study estimated different kinds of models and made the sample larger by including students that became eligible for a voucher in any year after the program initially started in 2007.

Because of the study's design, the research within this one year's data only included students in their first year enrolled in the state's voucher program.

[11] Competitive effects are interesting because they potentially include many students not using vouchers but benefiting academically from the voucher program.

Today, 28 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) operate 54 private - school - choice programs, which include not only government - issued vouchers but also tax - credit scholarships, education savings accounts (ESAs), and town - tuitioning programs for rural families.

Although Zelman gives a bright green light to states looking to include religious schools in voucher programs, it does not resolve all of the potential legal challenges awaiting such programs.

About a year ago, no one knew whether voucher programs could include private religious schools without running afoul of the First Amendment's establishment clause.

Although further research is necessary to understand the variation in the Indiana program's effects — including the organizational and instructional environments of voucher schools — our research to date offers some clear policy implications: