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.
Not exact matches
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 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
program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship
Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test
Program — the
new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.
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.
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.
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.
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 schoo
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 schoo
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.