Sentences with phrase «new voucher programs»

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.

The new voucher programs are not focused on poor students.

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

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

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.

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.

STANFORD — In a decade in which many school voucher programs have been limited or rolled back in Washington, DC, Utah, Arizona, and Florida, the Louisiana legislature in 2008 passed a new voucher program for New Orleans.

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.

A recent Friedman Foundation report, for example, bemoaned testing requirements that «may force all participating schools to move in the direction of a single, monopolistic curriculum and pedagogy...» And analysts at the Cato Institute went so far as to send letters to Indiana private schools urging them not to participate in the state's new voucher program, which it called a «strategic defeat» for school reform, in part because of its testing and transparency requirements.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Democrats contended that the race in New York's 26th Congressional District — which the GOP had held since the 1960s — became competitive through their efforts tying Corwin to the House Republican budget plan that included a provision to turn Medicare into a voucher program.

[Updated at 6:52 p.m. with comment from NYCHA] Rep. Jerrold Nadler and his nine fellow New York Democrats are urging the New York City Housing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the progrNew York Democrats are urging the New York City Housing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the progrNew York City Housing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the progrnew computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the program.

The Spring Creek Towers subsidized housing complex in East New York is rejecting potential tenants using rent vouchers from Mayor Bill de Blasio's Living in Communities Rental Assistance (LINC) program, a new lawsuit allegNew York is rejecting potential tenants using rent vouchers from Mayor Bill de Blasio's Living in Communities Rental Assistance (LINC) program, a new lawsuit allegnew lawsuit alleges.

Negotiating with the Obama administration in 2009 on the «cash for clunkers» program, which gave Americans vouchers to trade in their old, gas - guzzling vehicles for new, efficient models.

They're proposing to replace them with a voucher program where you'd give a chit to any worker who could document that he or she was down there and let them go to their private doctor in New Jersey, Ohio, or Florida — wherever they happened to live.

In the past few years, new statewide voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax - credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look like.

Paul E. Peterson talks with Anna Egalite of N.C. State about her new study looking at why some private schools do and others don't participate in North Carolina's means - tested voucher program and also at how families make the decision about whether or not to use a school voucher.

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

Private schools in the Milwaukee voucher program are starting to take stock of the double - whammy: higher costs to comply with new regulations at the same time that their financial support is declining.

A New York Times report and subsequent editorial claimed that «three of the largest voucher programs in the country, enrolling nearly 180,000 children nationwide, showed negative results.»

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study estimates that between 7.5 and 14 percent of students in Milwaukee's voucher program have disabilities, a much higher rate than the one provided by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which has stated, «about 1.6 percent of choice students have a disability.»

In fact, when Congress passed a private school voucher program for Washington, D.C., alongside new funding for the district and charter sectors, the overall reform plan was called the «three - sector approach.»

This would include funding for a pilot private - school voucher program, new money for charter schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to the public school of their choice.

But though fabricated out of thin air, the court nevertheless used its new exclusivity doctrine to stop the legislature from running its publicly - funded K - 12 voucher program for a general student population.

In addition to the creation of a new program and the EdChoice Program's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship aprogram and the EdChoice Program's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship aProgram's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship aProgram, will see increases in scholarship amounts.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

In 2009 - 10, the second year of the voucher program, 1,324 New Orleans students attended 31 private schools using vouchers with a maximum value of over $ 7,000.

The new research is significant in that it affords an unusual opportunity to obtain high quality information on the participation rate in school voucher programs by students with disabilities.

And Peterson and Chingos examined a privately funded voucher program in New York City and found that African - American voucher recipients experienced a 9 percentage point increase in attending college.

While voucher, tuition tax credit, and education savings - account programs have been successful in filling excess capacity in existing private schools, they have not led to widespread scaling of high - quality school models or to the creation of new, high - quality schools.