Sentences with phrase «like voucher systems»

Alternatively, he must also examine whether arrangements like voucher systems for parochial and private schools would be better vehicles for his goals.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

Not exact matches

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

Just like the childcare voucher system, but your employer pays the registered or approved childcare provider direct.

The candidates selected will need to take a position on hard issues, like the five outlined at reform.to, which provide concrete plans to create a small donor system for campaign financing: matching citizen contributions and providing voters with vouchers.

Those groups would like to scrap the Common Core as part of a reform agenda that would also target teacher tenure and boost charter schools and voucher systems.

Why supporters are excited: Although previous attempts at campaign finance reform in states like Maine and Arizona have had mixed results, supporters feel Seattle's voucher system will be different.

Jeffries, like his colleagues, inveighed against Ryan's separate proposal to convert Medicare into a system of vouchers for private insurance.

Schreibman accuses his foe of supporting a proposal for a voucher - like system that he says could cost seniors an average of $ 6,400 a year.

The vouchers have two layers of encryption, rather like an envelope inside another envelope, explains Jan Camenisch, one of the system's developers at IBM's research lab in Zurich, Switzerland.

Specifically, it would move American higher education from a voucher - funded market to a system with a free public option much like traditional K 12 public schools.

One of its central themes is that Americans are on both «sides» of the voucher issue at once: they like the public school system and they are positively inclined toward vouchers.

The new plan would funnel federal money directly to one type of public college, taking a first step away from the existing voucher model and toward one that looks more like America's K - 12 system.

With the advent of competitive reforms such as merit pay, test - based accountability, and market - based systems like vouchers and charters, we are already seeing unintended consequences in the forms of cheating, competition for scarce resources, and a system of winners and losers.

And the way New Orleans» computerized enrollment system works, when these parents chose a private school voucher, they gave up their claim to any particular public school they might have liked.

But I'd much prefer a system like vouchers and school choice to let all parents decide what their children learn in school.

Private schools and voucher expansion don't harm the public system like you assert.

Bush is a major figure in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.

The results of Louisiana's voucher program are particularly poor, research shows; many experts say that's partly because schools can choose whether or not to participate in the program, much like the French system.

Like traditional vouchers, ESAs remove public funds from the public system, resulting in fewer resources for the 5 million + students who are still educated by public schools.

Vouchers and voucher - like «education savings accounts» similarly reduce per - student funding for public school systems without providing relief on fixed costs.

Much like publicly funded vouchers, digital learning options and traditional school system choice programs, charter schools are helping set the standard for choice - based education reform.»

Forget moving to make the Buckeye State take full responsibility for education funding (and thus transforming school dollars into a voucher - like system in which kids can attend any school within the state).

In state after state, lawmakers sought to overhaul school funding formulas, rearrange accountability systems, and expand school choice options like vouchers, education savings accounts, and the charter school sector.