Sentences with phrase «offering special education vouchers»

There is a strong and growing body of evidence that offering special education vouchers to disabled students would be desirable public policy.

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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.

Measures on knotty issues expected to be the heart of the Individuals with Disabilities Act revision — reducing paperwork related to the law, disciplining special education students, «fully funding» the law, and offering a voucher program for students with disabilities — will...

And, the final US Department of Education report on the Washington, DC voucher program showed that a main reason why students didn't use a voucher offered to them was that they were unable to find a participating school with services for their learning or physical disability or other special needs.

Prior to the adoption of the special needs scholarship, Georgia already offered no less than 11 scholarship, grant or voucher programs related to the care and education of its young people.

For example, the final Department of Education report on the D.C. voucher showed that one of the main reasons why students didn't use a voucher offered to them was that they were unable to find a participating school that offered services for their learning or physical disability or other special needs.

While private schools that receive vouchers through the program can not discriminate against students with disabilities, they are also not required to offer special education services beyond those that can be provided with «minor adjustments» to their educational program.2 This means that schools can deny admission outright to students such as Trinity if their needs are considered too severe.