Sentences with phrase «of voucher»

Passage of a voucher bill required political change.

The smaller gains achieved by always - D and sometimes - D schools compared with the performance of voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools, despite the similar characteristics of all these schools, strengthen our confidence that voucher competition is the cause of the improvements.

Meanwhile, advocates invoked the «hypocrisy» of voucher critics in Congress who were rich enough to send their own children to private schools but would deny that option to the city's poorer families.

In Ohio, the findings were positive: The introduction of voucher competition modestly improved the outcomes of students who remained in their public schools — in the range of one - eighth of the magnitude of the black - white test - score gap.

Figlio was only able to credibly examine a small sample of voucher participants.

Also part of the longitudinal study, a matched sample of voucher and Milwaukee Public Schools students are taking the same tests to produce a sound comparison.

Each of these results is statistically significant at a very high level, meaning that we can be highly confident that the test - score gains made by schools facing the actuality or prospect of voucher competition were larger than the gains made by other public schools.

Currently, Douglas County's school board is split 4 — 3 in favor of the voucher program.

And, as Cavanagh points out, the jury is still out on the benefits of voucher programs to Catholic schools.

Launched in 2011, the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program is the nation's largest voucher program, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all voucher students nationwide.

Video: Jay Greene talks with Education Next about vouchers for disabled kids, the fastest - growing type of voucher today.

Private schools, even those with large concentrations of voucher students, are not given state report cards and grades.

Based on historical attrition rates, if all the students on the waitlist remain on the waitlist, the number of voucher users this year will be about 560 lower than last year.

About one - third of Saint Martin's $ 6.6 million annual budget comes from the two voucher programs, putting the school in a unique category among schools in Ohio with a high percentage of voucher students: unlike other such schools, the state does not pay the bulk of Saint Martin's bills.

DOJ's attempt to shoehorn its regulation of the voucher program into an entirely unrelated forty - year - old case represents more than ineffective lawyering.

Moreover, her criticisms of voucher programs are often off the mark.

I was concerned about whether test prep and manipulation were responsible for the exceptional gains made by low - graded schools that faced the prospects of voucher competition if their results did not improve.

In 2012 — 13, Youngstown Christian had the third - largest number of voucher students — 284 — among the almost 300 private schools in the state that accept them.

Trying to save face and still limit the reach of the voucher program, Holder and DOJ asked federal district judge Ivan Lemelle to force the state to provide data on the students receiving vouchers and to give DOJ authority to veto vouchers for particular students.

If LSP funding is increased so that all waitlist students receive vouchers, the number of voucher users would still be about 120 smaller than last year.

The best explanation for the lesser impact of the program on Hispanic students is that they were more likely to enroll in college even in the absence of a voucher.

That increased by 4 percentage points if the student received the offer of a voucher, a better than 100 percent increment in the percentage enrolled in a selective college, a very large increment from a very low baseline.

Past evaluations of voucher programs have not been able to take full advantage of a random - assignment research design.

But the results of this investigation nonetheless advance our understanding of the effects of school choice policies by providing the first experimentally generated information on the long - term impact of a voucher intervention.

The original evaluation identified, after three years, large positive effects of the voucher opportunity on the test scores of African Americans but not on the test scores of students from other ethnic groups.

What is the impact of a voucher system on equality of educational opportunity?

The impact of a voucher offer was to increase this rate by 7 percentage points, a 25 percent increment.

(Andy, many years ago, wrote a piece saying that «accountability and accessibility» should be demanded of any voucher program.)

The impact of the voucher offer we observe for African American students is also much larger than the impact of exposure to a highly effective teacher.

The estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment was roughly 5 percentage points greater for African American students than for Hispanic students, raising the question of why such a difference is observed between these two groups, both of which came from socioeconomically disadvantaged families.

Fifty percent of voucher students attended racially isolated schools, compared with 61 percent of public - school students in the Cleveland metropolitan area.

The inadequate number of eligible applicants has led federal officials to drop plans for a study that would have compared the achievement of voucher recipients with that of students who requested the grants but didn't receive them.

For this group as a whole, the estimated impact of the voucher offer on college enrollment within three years of expected graduation has a negative sign but is imprecisely estimated.

Proposed legislation, which initially prohibited for - profit education organizations, now would require that such entities make available to the public information on their profitability as well as their use of voucher funds.

In this paper, we extend the original evaluation of the SCSF program by estimating impacts of the offer of a voucher on college enrollment.

We find that the offer of a voucher increased college enrollment within three years of the student's expected graduation from high school by 0.7 percentage points, an insignificant impact.

Therefore, a simple comparison between public and private school students is inappropriate because certain students may be more likely to take advantage of a voucher.

We ought not speculate upon the hypothesized risks of voucher programs in isolation, but ought to weigh their potential risks and benefits against the current condition of local public schooling.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis of the Milwaukee voucher program concludes that the share of voucher students in a private school is the key to success — that private schools with few students using vouchers do well, while schools with many students using vouchers do poorly.

As noted above, Hispanic students were considerably more likely to attend college in the absence of a voucher opportunity.

The effect of the voucher offer is referred to as an intent - to - treat (ITT) estimate, as offering a voucher to a family is an attempt by SCSF to induce the family to make use of a private school.

Our results provide the first experimental evidence of the effects of a voucher intervention on this outcome.

This comparative advantage resulted directly from the 1998 expansion of the voucher program to include religious schools, according to my research with George Mitchell.

For African - American students, however, the receipt of a voucher made a substantial difference.

Put differently, even if the quality of voucher - participating private schools was identical in every city, they would all show different effects depending on the academic effectiveness of the publicly funded alternatives.

Only 30.2 percent of voucher participants said they received all services required under federal law from their public school, while 86 percent reported their McKay school provided all the services they promised to provide.

The enactment of voucher programs renewed the debate over the role of private school choice in American education.

Since then, another 28 state legislatures have passed some kind of voucher program, tax credit, education savings account, or other intervention that provides government aid to students attending private schools.

The department also proposed that schools be prohibited from requiring the parents of voucher...

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.