Sentences with word «neovoucher»

The 2011 conference of the National Leadership Roundtable of Church Management, a Catholic organization, called for an aggressive strategy to implement tuition tax credit programs or neovouchers in all 50 states.

Welner admits that STC programs «provide financial assistance to many lower - income families» but says that he «didn't read [Strauss»] statement to be saying that zero low - income families receive neovouchers.»

But in none of the states, Florida included, does the law provide the sort of data and transparency needed to answer the question of how neovoucher students do academically or the question of how many students are prompted by the law to attend private school instead of public school.

The report examines tax policies in 20 states that have circumvented public opposition or even constitutional obstacles to publicly funded private school vouchers by using their tax codes to either encourage donations to private school scholarship funds, also known as neovouchers or backdoor vouchers or to offset the cost of private school tuition.

Most vouchers and neovouchers fund students attending schools with no curricula requirements or public accountability.

States using neovouchers - or backdoor vouchers - to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit when making charitable contributions to private schools,...

In past neovoucher discussions, I have found myself «aligned» in some way with Cato's position.

I also agree with Cato that neovoucher policies are less likely to come with regulations and transparency.

This and a few other differences do make neovouchers different from vouchers, but I would disagree with Mr. Bedrick's assertion that the two approaches «differ greatly».

«Neovouchers» is a confusing term that appears nowhere in any of the fourteen STC laws.

Yet another group is comprised of religious leaders, perhaps not ideologically opposed to public education but anxious to use vouchers or neovouchers to fill the desks of their own schools.

These tax credit programs, sometimes referred to as «neovouchers» or back - door vouchers, have received less public scrutiny than vouchers, even as they currently comprise the largest private school choice programs in numbers of students.

In Florida and Pennsylvania, the two states with the largest private school choice programs (both are corporate tax credit programs or neovouchers), many of the students who receive neovoucher money attend fundamentalist Christian, conservative evangelical, or nondenominational schools.

In these programs, sometimes called «neovouchers,» people and companies earn tax credits by giving money to nonprofit scholarship funds.

States using «neovouchers» — or backdoor vouchers — to encourage donations to private school scholarship funds or to offset the costs of private school tuitions illegally allow wealthy taxpayers to turn a profit when making charitable contributions to private schools, according to a new report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

The neovoucher approach is more circuitous and convoluted, but the purposes and end results are largely the same.

What the Arizona Supreme Court decided in 1999 was that this money - laundering mechanism is sufficient to cleanse the neovoucher — to bring the neovoucher out from under a state constitutional provision forbidding state spending for these purposes.

With a neovoucher system, however, the taxpayer never pays (all or most of) the taxes, which are forgiven through the tax credit when the taxpayer instead pays the money to a private non-profit (often called a «school tuition organization» or STO).

As I discussed in my 2008 book, «NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling,» parents of children in the schools have entered into agreements, whereby one set of parents designates a classmate as a beneficiary, while that classmate's parents return the favor for the first set of parents.

There is no question that these programs, which I have called «neovouchers» (for reasons I explain below), do indeed provide financial assistance to many lower - income families.

That is, when a taxpayer chooses to donate to the (hypothetical) Arizona Pastafarian School Tuition Organization, which only provides neovouchers for a few associated Pastafarian private schools, a parent wishing to go to a different private school can not receive the resulting neovoucher for that purpose.

While those parents would be free to choose those Catholic schools under a conventional voucher plan, they are at the mercy of donor preference in a neovoucher plan.