Sentences with phrase «learn about school vouchers»

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What do we know about the impact of school vouchers on student learning and longer - term outcomes?

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

In other words, the schools can do what they like but if their voucher - bearing students don't learn enough to pass the state tests, the state will do something about it — ultimately (under Louisiana regulations) eliminating those schools from eligibility to participate in the program.

Customize your results by filtering the school choice program types you're interested in learning more about: education savings accounts, school vouchers, tax - credit scholarships and individual tax credits and deductions.

Bylines, stories, and outlets that aren't on the list include Erica Green's steady and insightful coverage of Betsy DeVos for the New York Times, NPR's deep series about school choice and vouchers, Benjamin Herold's deep dive into personalized learning for Education Week, Alvin Chang's amazing Vox story on segregation, and the Baltimore Sun's series on integration (which recently won a National Headliner Award).

«This is the first time that we have learned about this, and it gravely concerns me because there are several deaf and hard - of - hearing children who take advantage of the voucher to attend schools the parent (s) choose, or even deaf parents choosing to send their hearing children to school using vouchers,» said Schmidt.

At a hearing last week that put a temporary halt to the new Opportunity Scholarships program, Judge Robert Hobgood learned some new facts about the most popular private schools that school voucher applicants were hoping to use taxpayer...

At a hearing last week that put a temporary halt to the new Opportunity Scholarships program, Judge Robert Hobgood learned some new facts about the most popular private schools that school voucher applicants were hoping to use taxpayer funds to attend.

Paramount's Carol Miller was interested to learn about the new voucher program to help sustain her struggling school.

The debate about school choice is often animated in the United States, but critics of the idea may be surprised to learn that school voucher programs are quite common in the rest of the economically developed world.

The researchers in the district tested three theories about the negative impacts and found that only one of them may explain some of the learning loss experienced in voucher schools.46 More specifically, they investigated the possibilities that control group students were in higher - performing public schools; that voucher schools continue to offer less instructional time than public schools; and finally, that student mobility — the fact that a student is moving and adjusting to a new school — may be the underlying cause of the negative impact.47

Decisions about which schools a child may attend «should be made based on a child's individual learning needs, and that's what the school voucher program does,» voucher advocate Tosha Salyers wrote in a 2015 blog post for EdChoice, an Indianapolis - based organization that promotes school choice nationwide.

Very little of the mainstream media coverage includes specifics about what children at voucher schools are learning about dinosaurs or slaves or gay people.