Sentences with phrase «more than the voucher»

Noting that I had raised concerns about the unintended consequences of prohibiting voucher schools from setting their own admissions criteria or charging more than the voucher, Kingsland wrote:

In Chile, students are found in four types of schools: elite schools that do not accept vouchers and charge considerably more than the voucher; for - profit voucher schools; nonprofit (usually religious) voucher schools; and municipal schools.

Not exact matches

He said the most people who are denied boarding are happy about it because «the person who paid $ 200 is usually happy because they got a voucher» worth more than what they paid for their ticket.»

When Sarepta Therapeutics nabbed a pioneering approval for a Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) drug last year, it won more than just bragging rights and a controversial FDA approval: the firm also landed a coveted «priority review voucher,» which can either be sold off to another company or used to slash the review period for a future Sarepta treatment.

And when states fail to increase their per - child payments to keep pace with market rates, parents find themselves armed with a voucher than no one will take: Since the child care providers can make more money accepting a child whose parents can afford to pay market rates, that's what they do.

More than 7,000 vouchers have been distributed since the Fuel Bank pilot was launched last April in Kingston on Thames, Durham, Gloucestershire and the Wirral.

As waiting lists for voucher lotteries and a 55 percent increase in charter - school students since 2004 attest, many parents, and disproportionately poor and minority parents, appear more than willing to shoulder this lamentable burden.

Recent polls consistently show that African - Americans, especially poorer, inner - city people and those with school - age children favor vouchers more than do middle - class whites.

According to its most recent update, Catholic Charities has provided emergency assistance to more than 23,800 people and has distributed $ 587,247 in food vouchers and $ 78,770 in emergency food boxes.

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.

One could hardly think of a suggestion more incompatible with the mindset of liberals in general, and liberal New York Jews in particular, than providing educational vouchers that could be used to subsidize enrollment at parochial schools.

Finally, I have always vouched for Coquelin (he's improved a lot more than we think).

The government needs to understand though that more than just cash or vouchers for nursing, moms need a culture or society that helps and guides moms in their breastfeeding journey.

If people ask what they can buy for presents, a voucher for cleaning services is more valuable gift than a set of baby china.

«By the end of December, coming to January this year, that is last month, we mopped up more than N2.2 trn which we have used through the bureaucracy system to raise vouchers and sign cheques so that they don't go into the next budget.»

More than 39,000 households benefit from Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers, which are completely funded by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to the analysis.

Quick Pay enables vendors to get paid significantly more expeditiously rather than experiencing the delays caused by the standard voucher process.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to nonprofits that rely primarily on businesses to fund them.

Critics say seniors lose under the voucher plan because private insurance will cost more than Medicare.

Scarborough, 69, resigned his seat in May as part of a guilty plea to charges of wire fraud and theft, stemming from accusations that he submitted 174 fraudulent travel vouchers from 2009 through 2012 to net more than $ 50,000 in reimbursements.

But auditors also discovered errors — totaling more than $ 1.1 million — in the monthly claim vouchers submitted to the county by agency.

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 foMore 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 fomore 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 Utah Education Association spent more than $ 3 million in the fight against vouchers in 2007.

He added, «Freedom of education, by means of vouchers for parents so they can choose how and where education dollars should be spent, is a prime example of a powerful conservative solution to both fiscal and social ills directly related to outdated liberal social experiments that are more socialist than American.»

Why would shopping vouchers be more of an incentive than their child's well - being?

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

In his activity, the entrepreneur nevertheless continued to use the cash vouchers rather than this new standing, because he was not obliged to and because it was more restrictive than the cash vouchers.

Recertification vouchers awarded to ACE Certified Professionals who hold more than one certification will be automatically applied to the next on - time recertification processed, not necessarily the next certification up for renewal.

And after looking through pretty much every item on the Pixie Market website, I can vouch that EVERYTHING looks like it costs way more than it does.

My voucher was certainly enough to get me far more than two truffles, and a lot of the joy in my expedition was in deciding what treats to get for friends and family.

A hint for the boys... treat your other half to a voucher, rather than a steak dinner tonight, and you might have more chance of adding some B to your S!

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.

Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

The estimated gain from being offered a voucher is only half as large as the gain from switching to private school (in response to being offered a voucher), so the estimated impact of offering vouchers is no more than one - eighth as large as the black - white test score gap.

Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

In Louisiana, participating private schools that serve more than forty voucher students must administer all of the state tests to them.

On the other hand, the less - educated are only 5 percentage points more likely to support vouchers targeted to low - income families than are the more - educated (38 % to 33 %).

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

Earlier experimental evaluations of voucher programs were somewhat more likely to report achievement gains from the programs in math than in reading — the opposite of what was observed for the OSP.

The prohibition against schools charging more than the value of the voucher is intended to ensure that low - income students are not turned away due to inability to pay.

Conversely, «if a white student uses a LSP voucher to attend a school that is more white than its surrounding community, the transfer would be reducing integration at the new school.»

Rep. George Miller, D - Calif., chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, called vouchers «a huge waste of energy» in an interview in late January, and the political climate is even more hostile for vouchers than it was in 2001.

However, an analysis of individuals by political party reveals that support for universal vouchers has increased by 13 percentage points among Republicans (to 54 %) but fallen by 9 percentage points (to 40 %) among Democrats, whereas in 2016, Democrats were more supportive than Republicans of universal vouchers by an 8 - percentage point margin.

But 56 percent of independents thought teacher unions had «done more harm than good,» 54 percent supported school vouchers, and only 34 percent favored raising teacher salaries, once they had been informed about average salary levels in their state.

We followed students who participated in a voucher experiment in New York City in the 1990s, and found that African - American students who won a voucher were more likely to go to college than those who were not offered the opportunity.

By contrast, Krueger and Zhu concluded, «The provision of vouchers in New York City probably had no more than a trivial effect on the average test performance of participating black students.»

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families who used vouchers to go to Catholic schools were much more likely to complete high school within four years than similar students who were in the city's public schools.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.