Sentences with phrase «of school choice scholarships»

Similarly, last year the legislature passed a modest program of school choice scholarships allowing tax credits for businesses that donate to organizations that give scholarships to students of lower levels of income.

Last year, we had 110 students at our school, 9 of which took advantage of the school choice scholarship.

Kovner is a founder of the School Choice Scholarship Foundation, which awards scholarships to financially disadvantaged elementary school kids in New York City, offering 1,300 scholarships of up to $ 1,400.

Not exact matches

As a youth growing up in Canoga Park, Calif., the son of an Italian - American father and an Irish - French mother, Tim Foli was such a talented athlete that by the time he graduated from high school he was offered both football and baseball scholarships to the University of Southern California and Notre Dame and a $ 75,000 baseball bonus by the Mets, who had made him their first choice in the 1968 free - agent draft.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

BISON Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

«Scholarships give our students the gift of freedom: to make career choices based on purpose and passion, rather than the price of education; to use time to study, explore science, and volunteer to help others, rather than working to make ends meet; and to succeed because someone who never met them saw enough potential to invest in their dreams,» said Catherine Lucey, MD, vice dean for education at UCSF's School of Medicine.

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Second, scholarship tax - credit laws enable supporters of school choice to organize so that they can more effectively fight harmful regulations: Scholarship organizations can help both scholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful lscholarship tax - credit laws enable supporters of school choice to organize so that they can more effectively fight harmful regulations: Scholarship organizations can help both scholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful lScholarship organizations can help both scholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful lscholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful legislation.

The non-profits are dedicated to the scholarships, and the idea of school choice is built into their mission.

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.

The program allows businesses to receive an 85 percent tax credit on contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low - and middle - income families attending the private school, home school, or out - of - district public school of their choice.

In total, about 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.

Included in the two - year state budget is a provision that more than quadruples the size of the EdChoice Scholarship Program over the next two years, ultimately resulting in up to 60,000 students having access to private school choice by the 2012 - 2013 school year.

«Today's reauthorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program should send a strong message to parents across the country who seek to fight for their children's rights: If you fight for your children and you never give up, the road will not always be easy, but in the end, justice will prevail,» said Virginia Walden Ford, executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income Washington D.C. children to use school vouchers to attend the private schools of their parents» choice, was scheduled to be terminated as its funding had run its course.

Martin Lueken of EdChoice and Benjamin Scafidi of Kennesaw State University sit down with Paul E. Peterson to discuss their reasearch on the effect of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program on school district resources.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

The Granite State's STC program grants tax credits to corporations worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that aid low - and middle - income students attending the schools of their choice.

Every voucher and tax - credit scholarship program is at least fiscally neutral, and most produce significant savings for school districts, according to the foundation, which supports vouchers and other forms of school choice.

Resulting in the direction of about $ 146 million in public funding towards private schools last year, the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program has been in operation for about five years to date.

And Tuesday's interminable «expose» of state - level tax - credit scholarship programs certainly deepens one's impression that the writer (and, presumably, her editors) is in love with anything that smacks of «public dollars» or «public schools» and at war with anything that might be seen as diverting even a penny from state coffers into the hands of parents to educate their kids at schools of their choice.

Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental control group.

I've always found the president's blind spot on private - school choice troubling given his own schooling, which included St. Francis of Assisi and the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu, which he attended from grades five to twelve — on a scholaschool choice troubling given his own schooling, which included St. Francis of Assisi and the prestigious Punahou School in Honolulu, which he attended from grades five to twelve — on a scholaSchool in Honolulu, which he attended from grades five to twelve — on a scholarship.

I am a fierce supporter of school choice — and that includes vouchers, tax credits, opportunity scholarships and all the other devices that make private schools part of the choice equation — and I am broadly on team two, believing we have a moral obligation to empower parents with more choices and greater freedom in how they choose to educate their child.

While Obama was moderately supportive of public - school choice options such as charters, he was hostile toward private - school options such as the D.C. scholarship program.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

Or consider private school choice mechanisms like voucher and tax credit scholarship programs: Despite the positive impacts of these programs, only eleven of our thirty cities are located in states where they are legal.

As the controversy raged in the late 1990s, a group of philanthropists created the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF), which offered three - year vouchers worth up to $ 1,400 annually to as many as 1,000 low - income families with children who were either entering 1st grade or were public school students about to enter grades two throughSchool Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF), which offered three - year vouchers worth up to $ 1,400 annually to as many as 1,000 low - income families with children who were either entering 1st grade or were public school students about to enter grades two throughschool students about to enter grades two through five.

In my view, the big parts also need a total makeover — and would be a terrific vehicle for school choice akin to Florida's McKay Scholarship Program — but everyone in Washington seems allergic to touching special ed, an issue that would challenge even the most politically sure - footed of Presidents.

Second, a handful of programs that already promote school choice — aid to charter schools, the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program, etc. — could be expanded.

In the spring of 1998, Parents Advancing Choice in Education (PACE) offered low - income students in grades K - 12 the opportunity to win a scholarship to attend private school.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

Roughly 76 percent of Indiana's private schools take part in the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program, including almost 100 percent of Indiana's Catholic schools.

Some critics of school choice have suggested that small classes in private schools «explain» the achievement benefits of private - school scholarships and voucher programs.

In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could suschool children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could suSchool Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.

The No Child Left Behind Act famously endorses the use of «scientifically based research,» the federal Institute of Education Sciences has elevated the profile of rigorous scholarship, and presidential candidates tout studies on teacher quality, testing, and school choice.

Research shows that private - school choice through vouchers or scholarships is one of our nation's most effective dropout - prevention programs for African Americans.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Educationfound that students offered private - school choice by winning a random lottery graduated from high school at the rate of 82 percent, compared with 70 percent for the control group.

Today, 28 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) operate 54 private - school - choice programs, which include not only government - issued vouchers but also tax - credit scholarships, education savings accounts (ESAs), and town - tuitioning programs for rural families.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.

This study of Washington, DC's, Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) provides the first experimental evidence on the effect of a publicly funded private school choice program on college enrollment.

But the FutureEd analysis of the Indiana School Choice Scholarship program suggests that few of the program's hoped - for benefits have yet materialized.

Title I portability proposals should incorporate language similar to that included in the law authorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to children from low - income families living in the nation's capital to attend a private school of choice.

«We have always believed that the ultimate legality of our choice scholarship program would be decided by the federal courts under the United States Constitution,» Douglas County School Board President Kevin Larsen sad.

Last week, several news outlets circulated a report by the U.S. Department of Education's research division that found negative results for students who participated in the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only private school choice program for low - income children in Washington, D.C. Predictably, opponents of school choice descended on the report to tout it as evidence that school choice does not work.

Indiana's Choice Scholarship Program empowers thousands of families to choose the best K - 12 schools for their children — public, private or religious — just like state - funded college scholarship programs have done fScholarship Program empowers thousands of families to choose the best K - 12 schools for their children — public, private or religious — just like state - funded college scholarship programs have done fscholarship programs have done for decades.

Douglas County, Colorado The Choice Scholarship Program was created by the Douglas County Board of Education to provide school vouchers for students living in Douglas County.

Alabama's scholarship tax credit programs follow in the footsteps of at least six similar tax credits dating to the 1970s that give students a choice of public, private or religious schools, demonstrating that scholarship tax credits are constitutional.