Sentences with phrase «offer private school scholarships»

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Vouchers — sometimes called public scholarships — would offer parents an «educational check» that could be cashed at any eligible school, whether public or private.

Walton, a standout receiver at the private Bishop's School in La Jolla, Calif., was recruited to play soccer at Notre Dame; no major program offered him a football scholarship.

However, it was a private school which we could not afford and they had no scholarships this year... but even before we found out they had no money to offer, we decided to homeschool.

I explained that my son was a straight - A student, besides being a quarterback, and I was trying to find a private school that offers scholarships that are not needs based.

ALBANY — Unlike past proposals, Governor Andrew Cuomo's new legislation establishing an education tax credit offers more incentives for donations to private school scholarship funds than public schools.

While the state's Excelsior Scholarships provide eligible students free tuition to all state schools, Cuomo also offered the Enhanced Tuition program for state residents attending private colleges.

In short, as our lawmakers wrap up their 2014 session, a bill to offer tax credits to New Yorkers who donate to private - school scholarship funds or public - school programs looks dead.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

GOP leaders in the state's upper house introduced another proposal to re-authorize mayoral control of the state's largest school system, offering New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio an additional three years but pairing it with a tax credit for donations to private school scholarships — a known poison pill for Heastie and the Democratic conference he leads.

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.

Parents are mostly concerned with the college's cost and distance from home, but Morales - Armstrong encourages families to consider more competitive, private schools that may offer larger scholarships than local city colleges.

The program offers privately financed scholarships to low - income Hispanic students to attend private schools.

Greene and Buck note that in Florida, where the McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

The public school cartel was still reeling when in February 2005 state representatives Ted Hoskins and Rodney Hubbard, both Democrats, and Republican Jane Cunningham introduced a bill in the Missouri House of Representatives to offer scholarships to public school students to attend parochial and private schools.

The foundation in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships, each worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school.

The School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school for at least three School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school for at least Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school for at least scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school for at least three school for at least three years.

For the 1998 - 99 school year, PACE offered scholarships to 515 students who were in public schools and to 250 who were already enrolled in private schools in the Dayton metropolitan area.

Of those students offered scholarships, 49 percent enrolled in a private school during the second year of the program.

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.

My primary interest lies in identifying the effect of using a scholarship to attend private school, not the effect of a student's being offered a scholarship but not using it.

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.

The DC Opportunity Scholarship program offers a maximum of $ 8,381 per child for students in K - 8, and unless it is both reauthorized and redesigned one can not help but wonder if there will be many private schools for these students to attend in the years ahead.

Comparing the college enrollment rates of students who were offered a scholarship to attend private school through the OSP lottery with those of students who applied for but did not win a scholarship, we find that students who won the scholarship were neither more nor less likely to enroll in college than students who did not win the scholarship.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP) is a statewide initiative offering publicly - funded vouchers to enroll in local private schools to students in low - performing schools with family income no greater than 250 percent of the poverty line.

For 10 years, this program has offered businesses a tax cut if they donate to nonprofit K - 12 scholarship tuition organizations (STO), which help lower - income families afford the private schools of their choice.

The Patriot - News reported that [Corbett] «aims to see Pennsylvania join the growing list of states that offer taxpayer - funded vouchers to parents to send their children to a school of their choice... The governor also wants to expand the state's tax credits program that provides for business - funded private school scholarships.»

The program offers corporations tax credits for donating to organizations that provide low - and middle - income families private school and prekindergarten scholarships, as well as organizations that support innovative public school programs.

Lawmakers enacted the Opportunity Scholarship program back in 2013, which kicked off last fall offering $ 4,200 vouchers to students who want to leave the public school system and attend private schools — religious or not.

That's likely a reference that would include North Carolina's own controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program, which offers public cash to low - income students seeking to enroll in the state's primarily religious private schools, some of which reportedly maintain discriminatory admissions policies toward LGBTQ students and their families.

Other states, including Virginia, have begun indirectly steering public dollars to private schools by offering tax credits to those who donate to scholarship funds.

Yet Florida continues to offer vouchers for disabled students who want to attend private schools and awards tax credits to corporations that donate to private - school scholarship programs.

New Hampshire offers tax credits to businesses supporting Scholarship Organizations (SOs), nonprofits that provide private school scholarships or home school support to students in need.

Smaller private schools will be expected to share resources by offering up teachers to give lessons in local state schools, and independent educators must offer more scholarships and bursaries to pupils who can not afford fees.

A 2010 evaluation of the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program that I led for the U.S. Department of Education found 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.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

Rhode Island offers tax credits to businesses supporting scholarship - granting organizations (SGOs), nonprofits that provide private school scholarships.

When asked whether they favored or opposed a proposal to offer a «tax credit for individuals and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools,» 53 percent responded favorably while only 29 percent expressed opposition.

They include publicly - funded scholarship programs; tax credit programs that grant businesses or individuals a tax credit for donations to private, nonprofit scholarship - granting organizations; and personal tax credit or deduction programs that offer parents a tax credit or deduction for tuition and other education - related expenses incurred in sending their own children to school.

The new lawsuit challenging the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program claims the program violates the same constitutional provisions used to strike down the previous voucher programs — specifically, that they don't offer choice beyond a private school option — but Empowerment Accounts differ from these earlier programs in important and constitutionally relevant ways.

Senate Bill 23 by state Sen. Dan Patrick, R - Houston, would offer tax credits to businesses that provide scholarship funding for low - income students who want to transfer from low - performing public schools to private or religious schools.

But they did offer two obscure backhanded references — that «some private schools offer rigorous academics» and that «Catholic schools are among some of the most well - regarded and long - established private schools that take Florida's scholarships» — by way of presumably acknowledging that they steered clear of any school they thought might be high - performing.»

The bill would offer $ 4,200 maximum scholarships to students wishing to attend private schools instead of their local public schools.

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The price of attendance often becomes a factor in determining the socio - economic makeup of the student body, although some private schools offer scholarships to students with demonstrated financial need.

School - choice advocates on Capitol Hill also say they expect tax code reform — promised by Trump — to include a federal tax credit that would incentivize corporations to donate to state «scholarship» programs that offer tuition to private and religious schools.

This study examines the effects of private school competition on public school students» test scores in the wake of Florida's Corporate Tax Credit Scholarship (FTC) program which offered scholarships to eligible low - income students to attend private schools.

For a decade, the state has offered private school tuition subsidies to students with disabilities and tax credit scholarships that let taxpayers reduce their state taxes owed with contributions to private schools.

Bills advance: A bill that would offer bullied students a state scholarship to attend private schools is approved by a Senate subcommittee.

In addition to publicly funded voucher programs, the foundation offers significant support to so - called voucher - lite programs that offer corporations and investors generous tax credits in exchange for contributions to a scholarship fund that covers tuition costs for low - income families that enroll their children in private schools.

Illinois offers tax credits to individuals and businesses for donations to scholarship - granting organizations (SGOs), nonprofits that provide private school scholarships to low - and middle - income students.