Sentences with phrase «more vouchers for private schools»

-- K - 12 & higher ed: In what was clearly a tit - for - tat yesterday between the House and the Senate, the House passed the Senate's top education priority, making Bright Futures scholarships permanently cover full tuition, at almost the exact same time as the Senate passed the House's top education priority, more vouchers for private schools and the decertification of some teachers unions.

Not exact matches

Though he has been light on details, Trump is pushing an agenda that includes more charter schools and a voucher system for students who want to attend private schools.

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.

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.

«Position A: Government should give parents more educational choices by providing taxpayer - funded vouchers to help pay for private or religious schools.

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.

A midrange estimate derived from this literature is that about 10 percent of voucher - using students from low - income families in big cities would have attended private schools anyway (the percentage is higher for one - year attendance and lower for more sustained attendance).

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.

When presented with research evidence that claims «students learn no more in private schools than in public schools,» support for school vouchers dropped by 10 percentage points, an impact almost as large as the President's.

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.

The first step Mr. Obama should take is to push for more private - school choice through vouchers or scholarship programs.

Although the promise and potential of parental choice is nowhere more evident than in the realm of technology, the arguments for allowing students ready access to cyberschools extend to interdistrict school choice, charter schools, private schools, and vouchers as well.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

For example, voucher - using students might have more motivation to succeed academically, or parents of those students might be so inclined, or parents may have attended private schools themselves and want their children to attend them, too.

Private schools deciding whether to participate in a voucher or tax credit scholarship program must weigh multiple factors: Do they have room for more pupils?

Once voucher programs start to account for the independence of high - performing private schools, and recognize that the autonomy those schools have is the main reason for their high performance, you'll see more schools participating.

That reality is becoming increasingly possible for private schools as vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and education savings accounts (ESAs) reach more families in more states.

More commonly they funnel students into less selective religious schools and spur the creation of new minority - dominated private schools for voucher recipients, effectively a privatization.

What's more, because private management could be introduced directly into any of the nation's 80,000 public schools, private management might improve the quality of schools more rapidly than would vouchers for private schools, which must change the public schools indirectly through competition.

As of the spring of 2001, the Center for Education Reform estimated that 1,750 charter schools were educating about 520,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, more than seven times the number of students in all the public and private voucher programs combined.

Nothing wrong with any of those, and I'm all for maximizing the variety of quality school choices available to students — the more so as states enact voucher and tax - credit scholarship programs that draw more families closer to affording private options.

Many Democrats see portability as the first step toward federal vouchers for private schools and argue that it would siphon dollars from schools with high poverty and profound needs to those in more affluent neighborhoods.

The rise of private schools in the South and the diversion of public funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfare Fund.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

Their budget proposal would slash the Education Department's budget by more than 13 percent, or $ 9 billion, while providing $ 1.25 billion for school choice, including $ 250 million for private school vouchers.2

Some may view the recent decline in private school enrollment as evidence of a need for more tuition vouchers and tax credits.

We recently surveyed more that 2,000 Indiana parents who selected private schools for their children — some via the state's voucher or tax - credit scholarship programs and some without state assistance — to find out why and how they chose their schools.

No more than 53 percent of private schools in voucher programs designed for students with disabilities provided disability - related information on their websites.

Advocates for school choice in the US (especially for vouchers) also argue that private schools are more adept at providing education to parents with a variety of different academic, vocational or religious preferences for their children.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The administration achieves this reduction by slashing or eliminating funding for scores of K - 12, higher education, and adult literacy programs by even more than $ 9.2 billion in order to finance massive increases in defense spending coupled with, in the education context, a more than $ 1 billion allocation for Title I portability programs and private school vouchers.25

So here's a glimpse into what next - to - nothing accountability for a publicly - funded school voucher program looks like: current law only requires private schools with more than 25 voucher students to make public their annual standardized test results.

School choice is the avenue for more federalized control over education through vouchers and tax credits, both of which will eventually render inert the only REAL choices in education right now — home schooling and private schooling.

In this regard, tax - credit scholarships (outside New Hampshire) are more like vouchers to the extent they can only be used for private schools.

That's not the same as saying a little more than half came from private schools, but either way it's definitely a better deal for taxpayers than having to pay tuition for the 73 percent of students in the expanded statewide voucher program whose families were already sending their kids to private school.

Speaking on background, a staffer for Rep. Sondy Pope, who has been outspoken in her criticism of underwriting private school tuition with vouchers, said «our caucus as a whole is looking» to do something even more stringent than in Racine, but was less than optimistic about Republicans going along.

* Two grants totaling $ 50,000 went to Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina, a group pushing for more public charters schools as well as private school vouchers.

In 2014, the state moved to terminate an underperforming private school from the Milwaukee voucher program that had operated for almost four years without accreditation — and received more than $ 1 million in taxpayer money during that time.

Private schools in Florida are becoming vastly more dependent on state voucher programs that pay all or part of tuition for students with disabilities or from low - income families, an Orlando Sentinel analysis has found.

AFC also believes that Congress and the Administration should pursue additional and bold policies to fulfill the President's promise to expand school choice, including: a K - 12 tax credit to leverage private money in support of scholarships for lower income families; vouchers for children of active duty military members so they can attend schools of their parents» choice; Education Savings Accounts for children in Bureau of Indian Education schools; and more funding for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.

For more information about private school vouchers and voucher - like programs, and a state - by - state breakdown of voucher policies and legislation, visit the research sections of the websites for the National Council of State Legislatures, www.ncsl.org, or Education Commission of the States, www.ecs.oFor more information about private school vouchers and voucher - like programs, and a state - by - state breakdown of voucher policies and legislation, visit the research sections of the websites for the National Council of State Legislatures, www.ncsl.org, or Education Commission of the States, www.ecs.ofor the National Council of State Legislatures, www.ncsl.org, or Education Commission of the States, www.ecs.org.

Finally, here's the accountability mechanism currently in place when it comes to transparency for private voucher schools» academic track record: require all private voucher schools to administer a nationally normed standardized test of their choosing once a year, and require that schools with 25 or more voucher students make those test results on the aggregate a public record.

Whereas vouchers give parents the freedom to choose a private school for their children, using some public funding, ESAs — now a reality in five states — are more expansive, typically allowing restricted but multiple uses of the money.

At the same time we are defunding public education, how long will it take before taxpayers are paying a billion or more dollars a year for a statewide voucher system that supports unaccountable private and religious schools?

signs in honor of National School Choice Week, pushing for options including more charter and magnet schools, home schooling and vouchers for private schools.

For school choice to work, Butcher said, policymakers should give families vouchers to attend private schools, and allow more charter schools to open.

More than 40 percent strongly favored vouchers for use at private or religious schools (an equal number said vouchers were a bad idea).

He also favors adding about 20 more private schools in Milwaukee County to those now eligible for the voucher funding, which are all currently located within Milwaukee city limits.

Advocates for vouchers argue that private schools and more competition would offer a better education for American students.

All teachers will still be awarded raises from the same pool of money for traditional public schools, and Pike, the union leader, worries that pool will shrink over time, particularly as the state spends more on private school vouchers and charter schools.