Sentences with phrase «n't accept voucher»

In Seattle, where «democracy vouchers» allow residents to donate $ 100 to the city candidate of their choice, political donations increased significantly in every income bracket under $ 150,000 per annum, compared to donations in races that did not accept the vouchers.

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.

Due to the LSP's high regulatory burden, two - thirds of Louisiana private schools do not accept voucher students.

The apartments that don't accept vouchers tend to be in the very places where many people would want to live, says John Henneberger, co-director of the Texas Low Income Housing Information Service and a 2014 MacArthur Fellow.

Not exact matches

Preiss accepted, tweeting a photo of the voucher while saying «this is how badly United didn't want to give me cash.»

Online vouchers must be printed, mobile devices can not be accepted.

Whilst I appreciate your comments regarding the wording on the vouchers Mike, and to be honest I would be inclined to agree that there is nothing to specify the promotion excludes infant milk, I can assure you as policy it would not be accepted.

They also send vouchers which most stores do not accept.

While some Catholic schools do not advertise that they accept vouchers, Immaculate unabashedly uses the program as a recruiting tool.

The Wolf / Kisida / Rhinesmith survey found that most private schools that opted not to accept voucher students were very concerned about threats to their «independence, character, or identity.»

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

In addition, the nature of the impact was left up to Milwaukee: it could choose to let the voucher money follow the child, accepting a net reduction in total (but not per - pupil) MPS revenues.

There are five status groups of participants in the MTO experiment: control group families, experimental movers (who received restricted vouchers), experimental non-movers (who were offered but did not accept restricted vouchers), Section 8 movers, and Section 8 non-movers.

Private schools that accept voucher students struggle to make ends meet, but are strikingly mission focused, often with a crusader's zeal to educate every child that comes through their door, bearing a voucher or not.

Lawson said parents are grateful for the voucher program, but too many don't accept their responsibilities under it.

Yet given the political maelstroms of vouchers — not to mention the research scrutiny — it comes as a surprise that few analysts or advocates have asked about the private schools that accept scholarship students.

Schools taking a smaller number of vouchers also accept all students and administer the state test, but do not have a calculated performance rating.

In particular, the fact that voucher programs involve a subsidy to religious schools could complicate the analysis, because the Court has occasionally accepted the argument that the failure to provide a subsidy for an activity or institution does not itself constitute impermissible discrimination.

Based on ratings from the organization GreatSchools, the schools participating in the Louisiana voucher program were not of lesser quality than those that did not participate, though the voucher - accepting schools did charge lower tuition.

Among non-participating private schools, 28 percent said that the inadequate scholarship amount played a role in their decision not to accept LSP students, and 43 percent expressed concerns that the voucher amount would not keep up with increasing costs.

Schools that wish to accept voucher students may not set admissions criteria for voucher applicants.

These amendments included provisions requiring private and parochial schools accepting vouchers to comply with state and federal safety regulations; not to teach hatred of any person or group; to be fiscally solvent; and to conduct background checks for school employees.

Since private schools are not required to adhere to federal or state requirements for education, there may be inconsistencies that prohibit their ability to accept vouchers.

Students accepting vouchers would not necessarily receive all the services listed on the IEP that they currently receive in their public school.

However, it's important to note that private schools are not required to accept vouchers as a form of payment.

Most voucher programs also permit schools to discriminate in their admission policies and do not have to accept a student with a disability.

They argue private schools accepting vouchers should not necessarily be subject to the law because embedded in vouchers is a different kind of accountability, accountability to parents that can choose to take their children, and their tax dollars, elsewhere.

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

Rep. Leo Daughtry (R - Smithfield) told the committee a private school in his district that accepted school vouchers didn't seem fit for accepting tax dollars.

While the changes could rope more siblings into the voucher program, school choice proponents have told StateImpact many of the state's private schools are already nearing capacity — and unless the state increases the amount of a scholarship, it's not likely more private schools will open to accept them.

Rep. Leo Daughtry (R - Smithfield) told colleagues that a private school in his district accepting school vouchers didn't seem fit to take tax dollars.

-LSB-...] voucher supporters observed that many private schools in Louisiana chose not to accept voucher students, and those that did had -LSB-...]

Betty Mitchell, head of the school, and five of her relatives and one other woman accepted more than $ 200,000 in state voucher money, textbook publishers and even landscapers — all money intended for disabled children who didn't even attend the school.

It's impossible to know how many other private schools may have been experiencing financial troubles before being approved to accept school vouchers — they are not required to submit any financial information up front in order to be approved to participate in the program, aside from stating their tuition and fee rates for 2014 - 15.

And I can't vouch for this estimate's reliability because I had to accept what each trust said they received on rebrokerage (this may not be the same as what the DfE says it is).

Under both bills, failing private schools in the voucher program wouldn't be allowed to accept new students on vouchers.

Private voucher schools would be restricted from accepting new students or be removed from the program altogether if improvement is not made.

While the poll data show that Americans «accept choice and charters as part of the education landscape,» the public does not support vouchers.

By January, the Mississippi Department of Education had approved vouchers for 286 students, yet have only reimbursed 131 of those because parents could not find schools that would accept their children.

Opponents of the bill argued that under the bill, private schools would be able to accept students with vouchers even if they do not have staff trained to work with special education students.

Schools that accept vouchers are not giving students better options — just more.

Texas is a voucher - free state because vouchers divert much - needed funding from neighborhood public schools to private and religious schools, they provide no accountability to taxpayers, they allow private schools to pick and choose the students they want to accept and they don't improve student performance.

Finally, we need to consider not only which students accept and benefit from a voucher, but also the extent to those who do attend private school - or any nontraditional alternative - are actually able to do so over the long term.

We will not accept the Trump / DeVos voucher agenda.

Students accepting vouchers would not necessarily receive all of the services listed on their individualized education plans (IEPs) that they are currently receiving in their public school.

That same study found that 2 % of students didn't even accept a voucher because they did not want to attend a school that provided religious instruction.

Tax credits command support from a larger coalition of conservatives, free market advocates, and private schools than do vouchers, in large part for the same reason they are more legally viable: they are not government funds and pose less danger to the autonomy of private schools that accept them.

Jim Bender, president of the pro-voucher group School Choice Wisconsin, supports closing voucher schools that don't use taxpayer money responsibly but pointed to the difficulty in finding a model for evaluating school performance that various types of schools will accept.

In presentation materials that explain the school voucher process developed by Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina (PEFNC), who are key advocates for school vouchers, a footnote is included that reads «For nonpublic schools that accept scholarship students, the scholarships will not be considered funding from the State of North Carolina.»

In 2012, the Trust did not accept students into the voucher program until many of the participating schools had closed their admissions process for the year.