Sentences with phrase «of voucher recipients»

Data from Serving Our Children, a nonprofit that administers the voucher program, show that 98 percent of voucher recipients graduated from high school on time last year, a far higher rate than the 70 percent of students who graduated in four years from D.C. Public Schools.

The proposed bill would also allow disabled students, foster children, siblings of voucher recipients and children of active duty military servicemembers and veterans to receive vouchers regardless of family income.

As a practical matter, this makes it impossible to accurately compare the performance of voucher recipients to their public school counterparts.

Last week, the Department of Public Instruction announced that almost three - fourths of voucher recipients in the state's new expanded voucher program were already attending private school.

Indeed, since the vast majority of voucher recipients are black, a victory for the DOJ would have meant keeping black students trapped in failing schools.

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.

Not exact matches

«Some recipients would do fine with vouchers that they could use for any social services,» Olasky explains, «but it would be irresponsible to place unconstrained vouchers in the hands of addicts, alcoholics, and others not committed to changing their lives.»

One idea calls for creation of a voucher system, where recipients would negotiate with private insurers to get the best price.

When we spoke with Vicki Been, who heads up the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which administers the Section 8 program, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600» from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

The voucher program began in the 1970s as a means of breaking up pockets of poverty and allowing poor recipients to move closer to quality schools and job opportunities by offering subsidies to be used on the open rental market.

When we spoke with HPD commissioner Vicki Been last month, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600 ″ from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

First systematic analysis of long - term results for voucher recipients tracks 99 % of students in original program

In most places, private schools accepting voucher recipients must meet standards set by the government, and voucher recipients must meet eligibility requirements, such as family income, disability status, and / or the performance of their assigned public school.

The first study involved recipients of privately funded vouchers in New York City, the District of Columbia, and Dayton, Ohio.

If vouchers are found constitutional only if charters are available and secular private schools open themselves to voucher recipients, the result could profoundly affect the future of school choice in ways neither side anticipated.

The state of Louisiana recently banned four schools from receiving new voucher students because the scores of prior voucher recipients had been so low.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

In April, Judge Lemelle ruled that Louisiana had to provide DOJ with a list of all voucher applicants and recipients.

Our analysis of the Louisiana Scholarship Program reveals that the vouchers used by the subset of recipients for whom information is available have supported public - school desegregation efforts.

Voucher programs that give recipients the free and independent choice of an array of providers, including faith - based organizations, have a long and established history in Arizona, including six different educational voucher programs that help more than 22,000 students annually attend the public, private or religious school of their choice.

Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

More commonly they funnel students into less selective religious schools and spur the creation of new minority - dominated private schools for voucher recipients, effectively a privatization.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

Our reviewers generally agree about one issue (the greater levels of satisfaction among voucher recipients) not because they agree ideologically or because their assessments of the research on this topic are principled and objective.

The Administration is being dishonest about the evaluation data, which show strong positive effects for the recipients of the DC vouchers.

If you are a HGSE degree holder, a Certificate of Advanced Study recipient, a voucher holder, or a Harvard employee eligible to take a course through the Tuition Assistance Program (TAP), you do not need to fill out this application.

At the time of the NBER study (2012 - 13), more than eight in ten of the more than 6,000 voucher recipients were African - American and the average annual family income of LSP participants was less than $ 18,000, considerably below the income eligibility cap of 250 percent of the federal poverty line ($ 57,625 for a family of four in 2012).

A recent Education Department analysis of that program found that after a year in private school, voucher recipients performed worse on standardized tests than their counterparts who remained in public school.

[2] rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.: http://www.ncpolicywatch.com../Desktop/Public%20School%20Options.pdf

North Carolina public education backers are fired up this week over a new round of advocacy at the N.C. General Assembly that seems geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.

The next largest recipient of school voucher funds was Word of God Christian Academy in Raleigh, which received 26 vouchers totaling $ 54,600, followed by Trinity Christian School in Fayetteville, which received 18 vouchers totaling $ 37,800.

The school is the biggest recipient of all those participating in the state's new Opportunity Scholarship Program, having already received 43 school vouchers totaling more than $ 90,000 dollars in public funds.

Biggest recipient of taxpayer - funded school vouchers, Greensboro Islamic Academy, in financial trouble

Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would allow siblings of current Choice Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

The effort, according to education reporter Billy Ball, is «geared toward rebranding for - profit virtual charters and private school recipients of taxpayer - backed vouchers as public schools.»

For the academic year 2016 - 17, school voucher recipients comprised 60 percent of Trinity Christian's enrollment, according to state records.

The new rules preserve that requirement for most families, but would allow two groups — special needs students and siblings of current voucher recipients — to receive a scholarship without attending public school first.

The proposal would also allow disabled students, foster children, siblings of current vouchers recipients and the children of active duty military or veterans to receive vouchers, regardless of family income.

Voucher proponents like DeVos do not believe that private K - 12 schools receiving vouchers should have to follow the same rules that public recipients of federal assistance must.

This is particularly true for the form of vouchers espoused by DeVos, in which recipient schools would face no accountability and could even force students to waive their civil rights under federal law.

Public education advocates and lawmakers like Cotham feared such requirements would be imposed upon potential recipients of state vouchers when funding for the program was bundled into the state's budget bill in 2013.

The IES evaluation is the first of three of this cohort of D.C. voucher recipients; the next one is slated for release in the next year or so and will evaluate student outcomes after two years in the voucher program.

The Atlantic Why the Long Arc of School - Choice Research May Bend Toward Vouchers A new study from Louisiana shows test - score improvement among voucher recipients.

It is noteworthy to consider these instances because Trinity Christian School is the state's largest recipient of taxpayer - funded private school vouchers, known as «Opportunity Scholarships.»

North Carolina's largest recipient of private school voucher funds, Trinity Christian School in Fayetteville, has a history of delinquencies when it comes to paying federal and state taxes, court records show.

The seven target districts would be responsible for the costs of transporting a voucher recipient to the new school.

By Lindsay Wagner Senior Writer When a coach at one of Fayetteville's top private school basketball programs — a school that also happens to be the state's top recipient of private school vouchers — pleaded guilty last summer in a Wake County courthouse to embezzling...

Similarly, a 2017 study of voucher students in Washington, D.C. showed voucher recipients did significantly worse on a national exam of math skills and fell a bit behind in reading.

Mychal Thom, head of Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, estimated that at least half of his school's 366 voucher recipients last year would have enrolled at Concordia even if the voucher program did not exist.