Sentences with phrase «of voucher systems»

The authors note that this «indicat [es] that the LSP may attract private schools struggling to maintain enrollment,» and they conclude that these results «suggest caution in the design of voucher systems aimed at expanding school choice for disadvantaged students.»

Other countries (notably Sweden) and Canadian provinces (Alberta and other western provinces) allow variants of the voucher system to operate.

Destroying the public school system is the purpose of the voucher system.

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

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

Taking cues from the failure of the voucher system in New Orleans, where state money came with additional regulations, Texas would continue to allow private and religious schools academic freedom.

The private school voucher system is costing the state around $ 16 million, according to a report the Department of Education released this week that detailed the financial impact of the voucher system.

Owens concluded by acknowledging the limitations of a voucher system in improving the overall educational justice that has been diverted from our communities:

Critics of the voucher system say the program will siphon desperately needed funds out of the public school system to offer what would effectively be a tax break to families who can already afford to send their children to private schools.

The group said the program allows private schools to offer more scholarships to students unable to pay because of the voucher system, but did not provide data confirming the claim.

This year, SB573 / HB715 and SB115 / HB364 seek to drop some of these limitations and greatly expand the impact of this voucher system.

Not exact matches

Can we develop a voucher system that encourages competition among retailers to win the business of eligible households?

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

Much of what the authors argue for here makes great sense» for example, injecting «a healthy dose of competition» into our educational system through the use of educational vouchers.

Would vouchers improve the ability of the educational system to respond to a broad spectrum of needs?

The American Muslim community is keenly involved and interested in the possibility of vouchers, for an Islamic education system is clearly in the making.

One example of the threats to religious liberty that have arisen in Congress is the current bill proposing a «voucher» system directing education funds to either public or private (including religious) schools.

Maybe we need to rethink the voucher system so that we can send our tax dollars to schools whose administrators prove their worthiness through test results of the kids.

How about changing the system to give the value of the voucher to the parent to spend as they please, so they can save money if they breastfeed?

«By the end of December, coming to January this year, that is last month, we mopped up more than N2.2 trn which we have used through the bureaucracy system to raise vouchers and sign cheques so that they don't go into the next budget.»

Those groups would like to scrap the Common Core as part of a reform agenda that would also target teacher tenure and boost charter schools and voucher systems.

they can think of a new subsidy voucher system for the folks that can not afford a $ 10,000 a year increase to their rent.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

As head of the Common Council's audit committee, Hoffay helped revamp cash collection procedures to help the city better track money collected from parking meters and recreation fees, and helped implement a new system where the committee reviews vouchers from all city departments.

Call it The Hochul Effect: the strategy of tying Republicans to Ryan's well - known and controversial proposal to swap the current Medicare system to a voucher program.

Jeffries, like his colleagues, inveighed against Ryan's separate proposal to convert Medicare into a system of vouchers for private insurance.

At least three Republican senators are demanding big 11th - hour changes to the plan, including prohibiting the University of Wisconsin System from spending on diversity training, greatly raising the income eligibility limit for the statewide school - voucher program and repealing the state's remaining prevailing - wage laws within months.

Sharpton added that Devos — a longtime backer of charter and Christian schools --» does not believe in public education,» and would transform federal school funding into a voucher system that would favor a small percentage of well - off students while neglecting the rest.

She said she would stand up for Second Amendment rights, scrap the Common Core and push for a system of school vouchers.

In a range of proposals designed to show the coalition has not run out of ideas, Cameron and Clegg will set out plans for a flat - rate childcare voucher paid through the tax system, likely to be worth up to # 2,000 per child; a cap on the cost of social care; new help with mortgages; and transport investment through road tolls.

Earlier this year, state lawmakers, as part of an ethics reform package, implemented a swipe - card system and other measures intended to prevent abuses of travel vouchers.

Schreibman accuses his foe of supporting a proposal for a voucher - like system that he says could cost seniors an average of $ 6,400 a year.

The voucher program began in 2009, when a group of conservative candidates won control of the district school board and began a sweeping effort to privatize the education system in Douglas County — one of the wealthiest in the country.

[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 program.

The Obama administration has retained the structure of Medicare and made moves to keep it afloat, whereas a Romney - Ryan administration proposes an overhaul and a voucher system to purchase insurance in a new private marketplace

The vouchers have two layers of encryption, rather like an envelope inside another envelope, explains Jan Camenisch, one of the system's developers at IBM's research lab in Zurich, Switzerland.

Called Idemix, the software uses a system of anonymous vouchers that simply confirm a piece of information about an individual, such as that he or she is over 18, meaning they do not need to disclose identifying details in return for services.

The program is the oldest and one of the largest school voucher systems in the nation, serving 21,000 students, or nearly a fifth of Milwaukee's K - 12 population.

and the vouch system is helpful in weeding out some of the creeps.

We have remastered our vouching and verified system that kicks scammers out of our community.

Sony Italy recently announced PS Plus Bonus, a system of further discounts and vouchers exclusive to PS Plus subscribers in Italy.

While these results support the contention that vouchers would improve the quality of education for the entire education system, it remains to be seen whether even the prospect of competition can provoke a public school response.

A third possible direction goes back to diversity and individualism — through privatization, including such mechanisms as tuition tax credits, vouchers (enabling students to opt out of the public school system), and home schooling.

The intuition here is that high - scoring F schools and low - scoring D schools are very much alike initially, yet one group is subject to the accountability system's punishments (the F label and the prospect of vouchers), while the other group of schools is not.

The theory undergirding this system is that schools in danger of failing will improve their academic performance to avoid the political embarrassment and potential loss in revenues from having their students depart with tuition vouchers.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

The Sunshine State had instituted school voucher programs, increased the number of charter schools, and devised a sophisticated accountability system that evaluates schools on the basis of their progress as measured by the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT).

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The research included in this volume suggests that vouchers and faith - based programs had slightly positive effects relative to the traditional education systems in several nations (for instance, Chile, Columbia, and Sierra Leone), but the volume also includes some evidence that serves to counter an overly - optimistic view of PPPs.