Sentences with phrase «on voucher recipients»

A House budget proposal would at least partially take up that criticism, setting aside $ 1 million for an independent report on voucher recipients» academic outcomes and requiring that voucher students take part in a national, standardized test.

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There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

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.

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.

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.

Mead says it's unclear how the U.S. Supreme Court would side on states neglecting more stringent discrimination protections, given that the high court's 2002 decision upholding Ohio vouchers in Zelman v. Simmons - Harris stated that voucher recipients can not be defined by religion and that they have a «genuine choice» between religious and non-religious schools.

The bill also would give priority to students from public schools rated a D or an F on the state's accountability assessment in cases where voucher recipients outnumber available spots in private schools.

D or F rated private schools had, on average, twice as many voucher - recipient students as the A schools.

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.

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.

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Moreover, Delta transportation vouchers are non-transferrable: the recipient has to be one of the passengers on the reservation — although excess funds can be used to pay for additional passengers on the same reservation.