Sentences with phrase «larger voucher programs»

Until quality data are collected from larger voucher programs, ideology will continue to serve as a cheap substitute for hard evidence on the likely effects of school vouchers.

JB: Florida's universal preschool policy is actually the largest voucher program in the nation, with about 80 percent of eligible kids participating.

A New York Times report and subsequent editorial claimed that «three of the largest voucher programs in the country, enrolling nearly 180,000 children nationwide, showed negative results.»

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 children.

In Milwaukee, home to the nation's oldest and largest voucher program, racial integration is significantly greater in participating private schools than it is in Milwaukee's public schools.

A recent study of Milwaukee's older and larger voucher program found that 94 % of students who stayed in the program throughout high school graduated, versus just 75 % of students in Milwaukee's traditional public schools.

Launched in 2011, the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program is the nation's largest voucher program, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all voucher students nationwide.

As we consider the merits of private - school choice and what it would take to make it succeed, this initiative deserves particular attention: it is the nation's largest voucher program, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all voucher students nationwide, with 34,299 students receiving vouchers and 313 private schools participating during the 2016 — 17 academic year.

That study, while reporting negative achievement effects for participants in Ohio's largest voucher program, also found that students remaining in public schools performed higher on tests, owing to program - induced competition.

Indiana has one of the largest voucher programs in the country with over 34,000 students receiving tax dollars to pay for private schools.

For instance despite the constant refrain from choice opponents that private schools would cream and that public schools take «everyone» (i.e. everyone who can afford to live in their attendance boundary) the McKay Scholarship program has been statewide in FL since 2001, was still the nation's largest voucher program last time I checked, and only served special needs children.

Indiana is home to the largest voucher program in the United States.

Activists in the effort were largely liberal until the 1980s and 1990s, when conservatives and religious leaders began to capitalize on the idea as a model that could open the door to a larger voucher program.

Today, much - anticipated reviews of not one but two of the nation's largest voucher programs add some depth and a few twists to the voucher narrative.

The Opportunity Scholarships program, an even larger voucher program that will enable taxpayer dollars to be funneled directly to private schools — $ 10 million in 2014 - 15 and $ 40 million in 2015 - 16, with the hope of expanding the program even further in the future.

Examples from interviews with administrators from the largest voucher programs in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin — collectively serving over two - thirds of all students in voucher programs — include:

Indiana has the largest voucher program in the nation, but a recent report shows growth for the program is slowing down.

The state's Republican - controlled government already has one of the nation's largest voucher programs, with 150,000 low - and middle - income students and children with special needs or disabilities receiving tuition assistance at an annual cost of nearly $ 1 billion.

The study, which was financed by the pro-voucher Walton Family Foundation, focused on a large voucher program in Ohio.

The Indiana study has the largest sample size — and the largest voucher program — across all studies examined in this report.

Not exact matches

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

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.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

The program is the oldest and one of the largest school voucher systems in the nation, serving 21,000 students, or nearly a fifth of Milwaukee's K - 12 population.

But in a large - scale program, we do not know what proportion of the treatment group would actually use a voucher offered to them.

The reading impact of the D.C. voucher program is the largest achievement impact yet reported in an RCT evaluation overseen by the NCEE.

The Milwaukee voucher program is the largest and longest - running urban school choice program in the U.S., established in 1990 and now serving over 22,000 low - income students who attend 107 private schools using $ 6,000 vouchers toward tuition.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

Writing for Chalkbeat, Dylan Peers McCoy describes how one of the nation's largest school voucher programs has changed the private schools that participate, leading them to focus more intensely on student test scores.

No Struggle, No Progress is the autobiography of Howard Fuller, a Milwaukee activist credited with playing a key role in the passage of the first and largest school - voucher program in the United States.

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.»

But, even when they are considered together, those two programs are not as large as a hardly known, originally noncontroversial voucher innovation, the special education voucher.

As the opportunity for private placement with a special education voucher becomes better known to parents, and as private providers become aware of the possibility of a larger clientele, one can anticipate an inexorable growth in the size and popularity of these programs.

The National Research Council has proposed a «large and ambitious» research experiment with vouchers to determine whether the controversial private - school - choice programs might benefit students.

Yet, a recent study of the first two years of Louisiana's private school voucher program documented large negative impacts on test scores.

In 1990, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) was enacted and is now the nation's oldest and largest tax - supported voucher program for low - income stProgram (MPCP) was enacted and is now the nation's oldest and largest tax - supported voucher program for low - income stprogram for low - income students.

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 FTC program, which is essentially a voucher program funded by business tax credits, is the largest private school choice program in the country and has been held up as a national model by advocates and policymakers.

The three largest non-special needs school voucher programs (Milwaukee, Indiana, and Louisiana) all require participating schools to take the same standardized tests as the public schools.

Unlike other voucher programs, Indiana gives vouchers to students living in relatively middle - income families, though students living in families closer to the poverty line are eligible for larger vouchers.

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.

The MPCP is the nation's oldest and largest urban school voucher program.

The Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, launched in 2011, offers a rich opportunity to study how a large - scale tuition - voucher program works and to analyze the results it has produced in its first fewProgram, launched in 2011, offers a rich opportunity to study how a large - scale tuition - voucher program works and to analyze the results it has produced in its first fewprogram works and to analyze the results it has produced in its first few years.

Such a decline is likely larger for voucher students who move to a private school immediately after a choice program is created, because the schools also have to adjust — to an influx of new, disadvantaged students.

Original survey data from parents participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, the nation's oldest and largest urban voucher program, are anProgram, the nation's oldest and largest urban voucher program, are anprogram, are analyzed.

There does seem to be enough in theory and evidence to support larger scale pilots of voucher programs.

The study, led by University of Arkansas education professor Patrick Wolf, looks at the nation's oldest and largest private school voucher program, which gives taxpayer - funded tuition vouchers to poor families to attend private schools.

Lottery - winning voucher users had statistically significant large negative impacts on math achievement in their first year of the program that were less negative in their second year of participation.

The survey found that a large majority of choice parents are satisfied with their new schools and were easily able to find a suitable private school that participates in the state's voucher or tax - credit scholarship program.

When studying voucher or other school choice programs, for example, we have observed modest test score benefits for participants, but fairly large attainment benefits.