Sentences with phrase «other voucher programs»

Following this bitter defeat, Governor Bush and the Florida Legislature created two other voucher programs.

Among all other voucher programs, only five collected and reported information on students» family incomes, just two of the programs collected and reported information on English Learners, and still other programs failed to report information on students» gender, race, and ethnicity.

Also a statewide program, Ohio gave vouchers to more than 18,000 students in the 2013 - 14 school year.20 The state has since expanded the program to grant vouchers to up to 60,000 qualifying students.21 Unlike other voucher programs, the Ohio program is targeted to only students attending low - performing public schools.

This proposed program suffers from the same problems as other voucher programs.

PESAs divert funds from traditional, inclusive public schools and have higher administrative costs than other voucher programs.

Income - qualified students in grades K — 4 are eligible for vouchers to attend private schools, provided they are not eligible for Ohio's other voucher programs.

And a students» family income does not matter as it does in the state's other voucher programs.

Like many other voucher programs around the nation, North Carolina's income - based program could improve per - student funding and eligibility.

Unlike other voucher programs, Indiana gives vouchers to students living in relatively middle - income families, though students living in families closer to the poverty line are eligible for larger vouchers.

With a few notable exceptions, research from other voucher programs around the country and world has found similar positive impacts on performance and attainment.

In addition to the creation of a new program and the EdChoice Program's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship amounts.

Not exact matches

After a post-ASH meltdown of epic proportions, SPK - 8011 and other pipeline programs appear to be written off (perhaps prematurely), the market is in «show me» mode regarding the LUXTURNA launch, and it has a substantial cash position following the ex-US deal (plus priority voucher to monetize).

Voucher programs that affect only a fraction of students do leave others behind, but that is not an argument against vouchers; it is an argument in favor of a voucher plan that is comprehensive.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

The Republicans want a LOT in return for DACA, not just the wall, but end to the voucher program and (I should read up, but other stuff I imagine), but if DACA will pass anyway, the Democrat feeling is that they shouldn't get a lot in exchange.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 80» and 90's, Westchester County purposely move people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

It is well - known throughout political circles that in the 1980» and 90's, Westchester County purposely moved people living on Welfare, Receiving Section 8 Vouchers, and homeless shelters to cities like Mt. Vernon, Yonkers, Peekskill and other high minority populated areas and did not give financial assistance to fund support programs for the large migration of needy families that were purposely sent to these cities by the Westchester County government.

Recertification voucher promotions override all other discount programs and may not be used in conjunction with other discounts.

Paul E. Peterson talks with Anna Egalite of N.C. State about her new study looking at why some private schools do and others don't participate in North Carolina's means - tested voucher program and also at how families make the decision about whether or not to use a school voucher.

Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

In my view, these descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming.

But all previous evaluations of the effects of private schools or of school voucher programs reported test - score results for both reading and math, or a composite measure of the two, even if the researchers thought that one or the other was a better measure of school performance.

Lawmakers considering portability or other federal voucher programs must understand that the concept of federal dollars going into a «backpack of cash» that follows eligible students to the schools of their choice, whether public or private, is only part of the story.

Hess's other case studies include the state - funded voucher program in Cleveland and a privately funded scholarship program in the Edgewood district of San Antonio, Texas.

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.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Matt Chingos, one of the authors of the study, talks with Marty West about how the Florida Tax Credit scholarship program works, how the effects of the program were studied, and how his findings fit in with those of other studies of voucher and tax credit programs.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

Some voucher programs have been found unconstitutional while others have been upheld.

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

A productive response to that question would not contemplate the merits of «voucher programs» per se but would instead view vouchers as one vehicle among others for growing the number of high - quality individual school choices available to low - income families.

The predictions come as Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, and other voucher supporters are exploring ways to keep the affected program afloat, including by attempting to amend the state constitution.

«These descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming,» Wolf says.

Control group families did not receive a voucher or any assistance from the MTO program, but could have acquired HUD vouchers through other means.

Every voucher and tax - credit scholarship program is at least fiscally neutral, and most produce significant savings for school districts, according to the foundation, which supports vouchers and other forms of school choice.

Vouchers in Wisconsin and choice programs in other states make parents the masters of their own destiny and agents in their own kids» development.

One can derive a better estimate from recent research conducted on other urban voucher programs that serve low - income families.

The Florida program is more regulated than other tax credit scholarship programs, but less regulated than most voucher programs, according to a 2013 Fordham Institute study.

The Florida Supreme Court's decision striking down a statewide voucher program has sparked speculation that the ruling will aid efforts to battle other voucher initiatives, and could even pose a threat to charter schools.

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

The most generous judicial interpretation of the voucher question could at most require that states not exclude religious schools from choice programs that are open to other private schools.

These provisions, as well as others that were added later, could have a major impact on the future viability of voucher programs - but not without opening the door to yet another wave of litigation.

In addition to academic gains for students in some voucher programs, other scholars have identified benefits among public schools as a result of such programs.

Since then, another 28 state legislatures have passed some kind of voucher program, tax credit, education savings account, or other intervention that provides government aid to students attending private schools.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

In other words, the schools can do what they like but if their voucher - bearing students don't learn enough to pass the state tests, the state will do something about it — ultimately (under Louisiana regulations) eliminating those schools from eligibility to participate in the program.

Ed Week, Ed Sector, and others are picking up on a hyperventilating story from the free weekly Miami New Times about misconduct in Florida's McKay Scholarship voucher program for disabled students.

The program is a bold stroke, and it has broken school choice out of the tiny, marginal voucher programs seen in other states.

About one - third of Saint Martin's $ 6.6 million annual budget comes from the two voucher programs, putting the school in a unique category among schools in Ohio with a high percentage of voucher students: unlike other such schools, the state does not pay the bulk of Saint Martin's bills.

This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.