Sentences with phrase «many students using vouchers»

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

• Among students using the voucher to attend a private elementary school (most students attended Catholic schools), the estimated impact on full - time college enrollment was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 %.

A study comparing the performance of students using vouchers to attend private school in Milwaukee with students who attend public schools found that students in both groups are exhibiting similar levels of growth.

In Louisiana, we have seen many life - saving schools accept students using vouchers, just as we have seen a small number of fiscally or academically irresponsible schools accept such students.

Paul E. Peterson, a prominent voucher researcher and a professor of government at Harvard University, found last year that black students using the vouchers...

Without test results, for instance, we would not know that online and virtual charters appear to be demonstrably harmful to students, as are many Louisiana private schools attended by students using vouchers.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis of the Milwaukee voucher program concludes that the share of voucher students in a private school is the key to success — that private schools with few students using vouchers do well, while schools with many students using vouchers do poorly.

Among students using the voucher to attend a private school, the estimated impact was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 percent.

Professor Warren's report, available here, says that Milwaukee students using vouchers were 18 per cent more likely to graduate than MPS students.

Given the fact for the last 40 years or so, no more than 12 percent of students have attended private schools at any point, and today a fraction of 1 percent of students use a voucher or tax credit to attend private schools, it's hard to think they're responsible for America's creationist tendencies.

Since the LSP has been reduced in size, students using the voucher in private schools will transfer back to their local public school districts.

A 2013 study found that students using vouchers to attend private schools, 70 percent of whom were black, were 5 percent more likely to enroll in a four - year college after graduating than were a carefully matched sample of students in Milwaukee public schools.

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

In either case, these «unobserved» variables get in the way because students using vouchers may have had different academic outcomes even if there were no voucher program.

The study notes that students using the voucher for more years appear to have smaller negative effects, but, as noted above, these are not the same students being followed for more years, which is the case in Louisiana (and will be in future reports for the DC study).

Our findings also speak only to the achievement gains of students using vouchers to switch to a private school in grades 5 — 8.

We focused on students using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school in grades 5 — 8 during the program's first four years (2011 — 12 through 2014 — 15).

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

Looking at longitudinal studies in Milwaukee and Louisiana, she describes them in a way that will leave the impression that the results were negative for school choice: «In both cases, programs were used primarily by black students and generally did not exacerbate segregation in public schools; however, students using vouchers did not gain access to integrated private schools, and segregation in private schools actually increased.»

In Milwaukee, the number of students using vouchers has increased sharply (see Figure 2), but the voucher itself has been worth only between 50 and 70 percent of per - pupil spending in the public schools.

Also, while some might point to the fact that both programs show signs of helping lift achievement in traditional public schools a bit by increasing competition between schools, I don't think anyone would argue that we should sacrifice the achievement of students using vouchers in order to help others.

Since most of the students using vouchers are black, it is, as State Education Superintendent John White pointed out to the New Orleans Times - Picayune, «a little ridiculous» to argue that the departure of mostly black students to voucher schools would make their home school systems less white.

This year does mark a record high for the number of students using vouchers who have never attended public school in Indiana.

Most Students Use Vouchers to Attend Religious Schools — A significant majority of the private schools participating in the DC voucher program are religious, which threatens fundamental principles of church state separation: «A higher share of participating schools than non-participating private schools is religiously affiliated (64 percent versus 29 percent).»

A chronically failing voucher school may not accept new students using vouchers for three years after being identified and only after reapplying to participate.

But a Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.

During the 2011 - 2012 school year — the first year vouchers were available — around 10 percent of students using vouchers never attended an Indiana public school.

The program's original intention was to award vouchers to students attending failing schools, but data shows the number students using the vouchers who never attended a public school grew.

The districts won't be able to raise taxes to make up the money, but will be able to start counting students using vouchers in their enrollment to determine state aid levels and revenue limits.

The number of students using vouchers to attend private schools grew from 22,439 during the 2011 - 12 school year to 29,609 last school year, according to the DPI.

Tuchtenhagen acknowledges that when students use vouchers to move to private schools, it means public schools are educating fewer kids.

Lawmakers also included a change in the amount private schools receive for each student using a voucher for students with disabilities, and for disabled students who attend a school district through the open enrollment program.

Professor Peterson said in the report that the gains by black students using vouchers were statistically significant in each city after two years.

Notably, one public school in Saint Landry Parish (Louisiana calls its counties «parishes») was so high - performing that 20 students used their vouchers there.

Also unmentioned is that this study was the first report — ever — using a randomized control trial that found negative effects for students using vouchers.

When a student uses a voucher to leave a public school, the public school district's revenue declines.

When a student uses a voucher to leave a public school, the student is usually no longer counted in the state's school funding formula.

«A Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.»

And, in states like Louisiana, students using vouchers are being taught creationism in science classes.

The latest evaluation examined the outcomes of students using vouchers in Indiana for two, three, or four years between the 2011 - 12 and 2014 - 15 school years.

Madison's only school in the program, Lighthouse Christian, has 10 students using vouchers — the same as last year.

St. Johns County students using vouchers increased from 111 last year to 144 this year.

In many cases, students using vouchers to attend private schools and religious academies are doing worse than their counterparts in public schools.

Not exact matches

Now, according to a poll just released by Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, vouchers that use taxpayer funds for low - income students to attend private schools gathered support from 43 % of the public, with only 31 % opposed.

EdNext (targeted vouchers, government funding emphasis): A proposal has been made that would use government funds to pay the tuition of low - income students who choose to attend private schools.

Though voucher programs tend to receive more attention, more than six in ten students attending private school through an educational choice program are using tax - credit scholarships.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

Furthermore, these effect sizes are not comparable because the standard deviation used to scale the voucher results is from a much less diverse sample: low - income, inner - city students who participated in the experiment.

When comparable samples and measuring sticks are used, the improvement in test scores for black students from attending a small class based on the Tennessee STAR experiment is about 50 percent larger than the gain from switching to a private school based on the voucher experiments in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Dayton, Ohio.

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control group.