Sentences with phrase «opportunity scholarship program»

By contrast, the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program in Washington has been more successful in enabling minority students to enroll in diverse and high achieving private schools.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.

In 2012, 97 % of children in the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program in 12th grade graduated from high school (91 % of which went to college).

The North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program expands school choice in North Carolina by providing state - funded private school vouchers for eligible children in Kindergarten through twelfth grade.

The positive findings in the Education Department's recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provide more evidence that high - quality private and parochial schools can have invaluable benefits for low - income, minority students.

The American Federation for Children responds to findings in a newly - released report on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program by the Institute of Education Sciences.

I would like to call attention to Sand's very latest at City Journal California, which explores why at at time that so many other states have embraced a range of school choice options, from lifting caps on charter schools to launching new opportunity scholarship programs, the Golden State has struggled to maintain the few advances it's made over the past 20 years

An experimental study I led for the U.S. Department of Education of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program found that using a voucher increased the likelihood of high - school graduation by 21 percentage points, representing a 30 percent boost.

As with the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program evaluation, President Obama's very own Department of Educationassigned this study its highest rating for scientific rigor.

Finally, a Florida appellate court ruled against that state's Opportunity Scholarship Program on Blaine Amendment grounds, but on appeal the Florida Supreme Court failed to reach the issue, instead striking the program down under the state constitution's «uniformity» provision for education.

The report cites the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program which provides low - income D.C. families access to a quality private school, encouraged Congress to embrace policies that will allow students to obtain an education «regardless of where they live and the difficult circumstances they face,» and includes Denisha Merriweather's powerful story as a case study of how school choice can break the cycle of poverty.

«The Magnolia state's weak charter school law and a modest opportunity scholarship programs do not provide needed opportunity for the large majority of students in the state,» the report stated.

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.

Hanes was among a handful of Democrats who rankled some liberals in 2013 when they backed the GOP - launched Opportunity Scholarship Program, a controversial program of public vouchers that helps pay for low - income children to attend private schools, most of them with religious backgrounds.

The latest blow to the 5 - year - old Opportunity Scholarship program was dealt Nov. 12 by the full panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee, which voted 8 - 5, with one abstention, to uphold an August decision by a three - member panel of that court that found the program unconstitutional.

The federal government's official evaluation of the Washington, D.C., Opportunity Scholarship Program points to a common pattern that has emerged amid these mixed results.

Courts continue to rule in favor of school choice programs, as North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled in favor of its relatively new and oversubscribed Opportunity Scholarship Program.

On April 21, 2014, New City was featured in an article by reporter Casey Blake in the Asheville Citizen Times discussing the merits of the NC Opportunity Scholarship program.

But thousands of kids and their families who have won the lottery (literally) and have been given a shot at a good life via a good education by the likes of Eva Moskowitz's Harlem Success Academies, KIPP Schools and the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program undoubtedly won't.

A 2010 assessment of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program showed that the 3,300 low - income D.C. children improved their academic achievement significantly under the program.

PESAs share the disadvantages of North Carolina's Opportunity Scholarship program while opening new avenues for fraud.

The IES report on the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program needs to be considered in context.

Forster noted that at the time of his report there had been twelve random assignment studies of school choice programs, including the evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program mentioned above.

In 2013, Dr. Patrick Wolf and Michael McShane published «School Choice Pays Off, Literally,» which explained how the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program produced $ 2.62 in benefits for every $ 1 spent on it.

After protracted court proceedings, the Florida Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that the Florida Opportunity Scholarship Program, a universal voucher program, violated Article IX, section 1 of the Florida Constitution: «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, safe, secure and high - quality system of free public schools.

In the federally funded Opportunity Scholarship Program in Washington, D.C., for example, almost half of the available vouchers went unused in the first year of the program because its organizers didn't have adequate time to inform parents.

The American Federation for Children celebrates North Carolina's recently passed budget for its strong support of school choice and major expansion of the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program.

The caller, who said she was with a non-profit called School Choice North Carolina, wanted to help Weil figure out if her family could qualify for the state's new Opportunity Scholarships program, which will provide students with $ 4,200 annual taxpayer - funded vouchers to use at private schools beginning in the fall of 2014.

For instance, evaluations of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program and D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program found that while students who received vouchers experienced small or no test score gains relative to their counterparts in district schools, the programs significantly increased high school graduation rates among students who used vouchers.

Expands Opportunity Scholarship Program, Increases Teacher Pay, Increases Funding for Special Needs School Choice Program

The report cites the successful D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program which provides low - income D.C. families access to a quality private school, encouraged Congress to embrace policies that will allow students to -LSB-...]

In Washington, D.C., the charter sector is alive and well, but the modest Opportunity Scholarship Program must argue repeatedly for its survival.

Texas — Texas» school voucher bill, the «Equal Opportunity Scholarship Program,» died before it even reached the Senate floor, thanks in no small part to the clear lack of support it received from state House members.

If that's not enough, the document — inked by a rural Lee County private school, which is eligible to receive public funds under the state's controversial Opportunity Scholarship Program — goes on to make this declaration:

As with the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program evaluation, President Obama's very own Department of Education assigned this study its highest rating for scientific rigor.

and «Expand The DC Opportunity Scholarship Program To Serve As A Model For The Nation.»

The court voted 5 - 2 to end the Opportunity Scholarships program, which provides students who decide to leave some of the state's lowest - rated public schools with about $ 4,350 in tuition aid they can use in private or religious schools.

The «analysis» by Ulrich Boser, Meg Benner, and Erin Roth merely cherry - picks the worst result from among many in an actual analysis of the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program and compares it to other negative results from other education studies.

Over the weekend the Democrat - controlled Congress put the final nail in the coffin of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.