Sentences with phrase «new federal voucher»

Bender, who attended DeVos» nomination hearing, said he doesn't believe there's an appetite in a Republican - controlled Congress to create a new federal voucher program.

The missions of NCPE's member organizations greatly vary, yet we are united in our position that Congress should not expand existing or create new federal voucher programs.

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Affordable housing: New York would take a $ 229.9 million cut in federal aid for Housing Choice vouchers, affecting 13,620 low - income families who find housing in the private market.

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 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 found.

The two federal lawsuits, filed in Manhattan and Brooklyn, claimed that NYCHA's new computer and phone systems cost Section 8 tenants their housing vouchers, causing them to pay additional rent and endure lengthy housing court proceedings.

The new plan would funnel federal money directly to one type of public college, taking a first step away from the existing voucher model and toward one that looks more like America's K - 12 system.

The irony in the Ninth Circuit outcome is that the tax - credit mechanism, which Arizona adopted in order to avoid legal challenges, created a new pitfall; there is little doubt that a program that offered vouchers directly to parents instead would now be acceptable as a matter of federal law.

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

The panel calls on federal, state, and community leaders to plan carefully so that such alternatives — including charter schools and vouchers — actually help children whose parents exercise new options, while avoiding harm to the...

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

The blow to states - rights principles from national standards could be softened with pledges to block - grant federal education spending and encourage competition through charter schools or school vouchers, along the lines described in the contribution from Chester Finn and Michael Petrilli in this issue (see «A New New Federalism,» p. 48).

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports Do Vouchers Lead to Sorting under Random Private - School Selection?

The new platform called education choice «one of the greatest civil rights challenges of our time» and detailed the Party's support for education savings accounts (ESAs), vouchers, tuition tax credits, and portability of federal funding:

That left House leadership facing new criticism from the right because the GOP bill omits school vouchers, radical reductions to federal mandates and other right - wing proposals.

Washington — About 85 percent of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all of the surveyed teachers believe that charter schools and private schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as public schools.

The state Department of Public Instruction — which oversees the state's four voucher programs — said Johnson's amendment would remove federal oversight of the treatment of students who attend private schools participating in the state's voucher programs, including a new one specifically for students with disabilities.

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At the same time, it seeks a historic $ 1.4 billlon federal investment in school choice, including new money for private school vouchers and charter schools, as well as directing $ 1 billion to follow students to the school of their choice.

They don't appear keen on approving money for a new voucher program, though a federal education tax credit program has some, though not overwhelming, support in Congress, and it could be slipped into a tax - overhaul bill.

The new federal Child Care Development Fund block grant will pay for 3,800 more child - care voucher slots.

Hundreds of protesters hit the streets in Denver to send a message to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos... Voucher proponents on the Hill are pushing a federal tax credit voucher program... two new community schools announced in Philadelphia, and activists in Florida campaign against for - profit charter corporations.

While legislation may be brought forward at the federal level to create new student voucher programs, given that California's vibrant and growing charter school sector affords parents their fundamental right to choose where their students go to school, we believe that vouchers would be at odds with the needs of California's public school system, and we will work actively to resist them from being forced upon our state.

Trump has said he wants to spend $ 20 billion to help states expand voucher programs, and the people who administer the only federally funded voucher program currently operating, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, say they expect to get more federal money soon to expand by «hundreds of new students» for the 2017 - 2018 school year.

A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) says many of the nation's state voucher programs — as well as many private schools — aren't providing parents with the information about how leaving the public schools may affect the federal protections available to children with disabilities.

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