Sentences with phrase «new voucher program»

But new voucher programs made them available to wealthy students as well, even those who already had access to excellent public schools.

The Assembly on Tuesday is scheduled to take up his proposal, attached as an amendment to a bill making technical changes to the state's new voucher program for students with disabilities.

Gov. Scott Walker and Republican lawmakers have created new voucher programs in Racine and statewide to join the program in Milwaukee, created in 1990 as the country's first.

In recent years, choice advocates cheered because Indiana and Louisiana adopted new voucher programs and because charter schools — boosted by President Obama's Race to the Top program and movies like Waiting for Superman — continued to expand and attract supporters.

Judge orders halt to Douglas County's newest voucher program Ruling says reconfigured program is not sufficiently distinct from one struck down in 2015 Denver Post

Parent Jeanetta White told StateImpact in September she pulled her four adopted kids out of South Bend public schools and enrolled them in parochial school with the help of Indiana's new voucher program because she was fed up with the public schools» performance.

(Both of these involved Louisiana's new voucher program which admittedly has some bugs that the state is addressing.

The two most recent studies were completed in neighboring Louisiana, which has a relatively new voucher program.

Among the biggest beneficiaries of Indiana's expansive new voucher program are the parents who could have paid to send their kids to private school anyway.

Vos introduced the idea as an amendment to a separate voucher bill that makes technical amendments to the state's new voucher program for students with disabilities.

Judge orders halt to Douglas County's newest voucher program Ruling says reconfigured program is not sufficiently distinct from one struck down in 2015

Jeanetta White said in September she pulled her four foster kids out of South Bend public schools and enrolled them in parochial school with the help of Indiana's new voucher program because she was fed up with the public schools» performance.

Still, the value of tax - credit programs in states with strong constitutional prohibitions on aid to religious schools was confirmed by the near - simultaneous invalidation of Arizona's new voucher programs.

But how upset should one really be about the AP report from Louisiana that some of the private schools participating in the Pelican State's new voucher program «teach creationism and reject evolution»?

Indiana's new voucher program that provides state - funded scholarships to private schools, the nation's broadest, is proving to be a boon for Roman Catholic schools that nationwide have been struggling against dwindling enrollment numbers for years.

While there is overwhelming support for the program in the House, it faces staunch opposition in the Senate, where several prominent legislators prefer the introduction of a new voucher program.

Many of the laws, including Indiana's voucher program, Arizona's savings accounts, and a new voucher program in Douglas County, Colorado, were challenged in court shortly after passage.

Lighthouse Christian School, a private religious school on Madison's West Side, is one of 28 schools that registered to participate in the new voucher program for students with disabilities.

New voucher programs were established in Florida in 1999 and Washington, D.C. in 2004.

The new voucher programs are not focused on poor students.

In addition, Arkansas adopted a new voucher program this year.

A lawsuit filed in Marion County Superior Court Friday by 12 individuals with support from the Indiana State Teacher's Association and the National Education Association says the new voucher program is unconstitutional.

According to a statement from state schools Superintendent Tony Evers, Green Bay property taxpayers will be on the hook for millions of dollars to pay for the new voucher program.

They've tried to tout the success of the new voucher program, but the fact is less than 4,000 of the 7,500 vouchers available under the new law have been used.

Arizona Republic takes a closer look at the new voucher program there.

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.

One initiative would repeal Florida's Blaine Amendment and the other would authorize Florida to create a new voucher program.

After Ball State University declined to renew the charters for two Imagine - run schools in the state, Imagine took advantage of Indiana's new voucher program and will keep the schools open as private schools in the fall.

John White, Louisiana state superintendent of schools, is refusing to release records related to the process of choosing schools to participate in the new voucher program.

Complicating matters for public school finance directors and special education providers is a new voucher program enacted by lawmakers last year that, beginning this fall, will funnel money out of public coffers into private educational settings.

Paramount's Carol Miller was interested to learn about the new voucher program to help sustain her struggling school.

Enrollment has spiked 60 percent this year at Our Lady of Hungary because of the Indiana's new voucher program.

A new voucher program could strengthen parochial and private schools that serve low - income children, which may in turn build some support.

This week, we may hear that any new voucher program will start small and will only serve a fraction of our state's students.