Sentences with phrase «of voucher schemes»

While charity ActionAid welcomed the Conservative's commitment to aid spending, they were also highly critical of the vouchers scheme.

In October 2001, he had to apologise after speaking up in favour of Home Secretary David Blunkett's abolition of the voucher scheme for asylum seekers.

Lawmakers seek massive expansion of voucher scheme that discriminates against LGBT students

Not exact matches

Martin Keown is supporting McDonald's coaching voucher scheme, offering anyone in football, the chance to apply for one of 500 coaching vouchers each worth # 100.

«As the scheme was tested in areas with low breastfeeding rates (just 28 per cent of babies were receiving any breastmilk at six - eight weeks), we were delighted that 46 per cent of all eligible mothers signed up to the scheme and over 40 per cent claimed at least one voucher.

The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world but pilot scheme suggests offering vouchers can help takeup

Yes, you might be able to take advantage of a childcare voucher scheme to pay for childcare.

As a result, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) today stressed that the proposals for a voucher scheme were still at a preliminary stage, and said the final details of the contract would not be finalised until February.

The Ghanaian government, as part of measures to clean the payroll of «ghost names» introduced a scheme to validate personnel by the various heads of departments to ensure those whose names appeared on their vouchers were indeed at post.

Broadly speaking, we understand that existing members of a scheme, those who are provided with a voucher in one of the 52 tax weeks leading up to the relevant October date, can continue benefiting from the tax and NI relief after that date as long as their employer continues to offer the scheme.

Proposals, which are also sought for these clusters, are expected to cover a variety of activities such as studentships, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Third Sector placements and a voucher scheme designed to allow Third Sector organisations to «buy in» academic expertise.

Forty SMEs are today being announced as the first winners of a groundbreaking voucher scheme which aims to create a positive link between SMEs and the Universities in the West Midlands region.

The Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, has started a scheme of offering modest rewards - such as shopping vouchers - for DCLG civil servants who come up with innovative, thrifty ideas that saves taxpayers» money.

The groups decry DeVos's support of «voucher schemes which siphon away all - too - limited education funds» and suggest her positions on women's healthcare (read: «abortion») and affirmative action are reasons to scuttle her appointment.

In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

This demonstrates that employers, including educational establishments, are witnessing the benefits of rewarding hard - working teachers with gift cards and vouchers as part of staff incentive or reward schemes.

Public school students and their teachers in Florida have been subject to endless test - based evaluation schemes and a massive expansion of school vouchers.

One of its changes is to bar for - profit schools from the voucher scheme.

Dismantling our nation's public education system while investing in unproven schemes to incentivize private school vouchers that have no evidence of improving student achievement could have devastating consequences for students that could take decades to fix.

Despite the fact that 90 percent of students attend public schools, this budget dramatically reduces funding for these schools in favor of a massive investment of $ 1 billion — four times the amount in last year's proposal — in ineffective private school voucher schemes, putting the most vulnerable students at risk.

Instead of looking to improve education for all children, he parroted failed voucher and privatization schemes that have not improved student learning.

These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

But now he's so much of a big, fat voucher proponent that he even threw a party at his Castle Rock home in May of this year when Douglas County passed their faux - charter - for - vouchers scheme.

The charter effort to strip elected school boards of their right to approve and negotiate contracts also died in committee as did a confusing Return on Investment grading scheme for public schools, which exempted for - profit charters and private voucher schools.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

Second, although the Swedish voucher scheme requires private schools to follow the same curricular framework as public schools, they operate independently in many respects and are not held to the same level of accountability.

On November 18, 2016, Judge James Wilson of the Eighth Judicial District Court, pursuant the Nevada Supreme Court's decision, issues a permanent injunction halting the ESA voucher program due to its unconstitutional funding scheme.

Thus, we expected social cohesion to fall under the voucher scheme because a smaller share of students would interact with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse peers.

DeVos has spent most of her life using her billions to privatize public education through charter and voucher school schemes.

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

For at least two reasons, we initially suspected that the expansion of the Swedish voucher scheme would be accompanied by a decline in social cohesion.

We added to this literature by investigating the impact of the Swedish voucher scheme on a fundamental democratic goal of schooling, social cohesion, measured as civic attitudes of students toward ethnic minorities and immigrants.

More than 90 percent of the private schools who receive taxpayer funds through the voucher scheme are religious and the bulk of those are conservative fundamentalist schools, many of which use the A-Beka Book curriculum and books from Bob Jones University Press.

Each of these factors influenced the voucher scheme towards a more equitable and democratic design that supported positive attitudes toward ethnic minorities and immigrants and prevented the kind of segregation that is typically observed in voucher programs in other societies.

President Trump wants to cut 13.5 % from the Department of Education's budget and slash investments in public schools, while diverting dollars to private school voucher schemes.

Parents for Educational Freedom NC (PEFNC)-- a pro-voucher lobby in North Carolina that receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family — has made campaign contributions to Stam and has even flown him and other lawmakers to Florida in 2013 to learn more about that state's own voucher scheme.

It doesn't matter how their proponents try to disguise them — education savings accounts, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships — vouchers are destructive and misguided schemes that use taxpayer dollars to «experiment with our children's education without any evidence of real, lasting positive results,» says NEA President Eskelsen García.

The scheme would funnel public funds out of public schools and into private schools by allowing parents to use a voucher to pay for some or all of their child's private school tuition.

He becomes more petulant and tries to disparage privatization by referring to vouchers and other forms of parental choice as «destructive and misguided schemes.»

The goal of creating the voucher scheme last session was not to see how a limited number of students using a limited amount of public dollars would fare in the voucher program.

«What are they so afraid of going to the courts to ensure this voucher scheme is legal?

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

The smoke of battle obscured the significance of how much energy and attention, from a Conservative - headed government, was focused on raising standards in non-selective state schools, with almost no diversionary forays into grammar schools, voucher schemes or funding private places.

For example, ALEC is a big supporter of vouchers and tuition tax credit schemes which use public dollars to subsidize tuition at private or religious schools.

While it ends a Pre-K waiting list, which is good, it's unfortunate that this class size bill had to be politicized with other controversial legislation around the gas pipeline, state board of elections and expansion of a new private school voucher scheme.»

«Vouchers, by any name, are a scheme that strips critical funds from public schools and gives a discount to individuals who can already afford private school, and all at taxpayer expense and with zero accountability,» said Kathy Miller, head of the liberal advocacy group Texas Freedom Network.

In what may yet prove a canny move, Tesco is making the device available under its Clubcard Boost scheme, doubling the value of shoppers» vouchers and club card points which, Tesco hopes, will reduce the price to under # 100 for many buyers.

Sign up for loyalty schemes and start using them, make use of vouchers and keep your eyes open for free and cheap entertainment.

Sterilisation as a means of controlling the community cat population has been carried out by members of the public using their own resources, with support from the Cat Welfare Society's reimbursement scheme and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's sterilisation voucher scheme for the past 7 years.

Rather like lawyers, opticians have enjoyed a charmed and protected life — at least until the 1980s when their monopoly came to an end with the introduction of a scheme allowing people to buy their glasses wherever they wanted with NHS vouchers.