Sentences with phrase «private schools of their choice»

«They wanted to make sure they were going to get a donation when they give to public schools and private schools of their choice and they would get a 90 percent tax credit at the taxpayers» expense,» said Jasmine Gripper, Alliance for Quality Education.

BISON Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

Sixty - six percent of families used their ESAs solely to pay tuition at a chosen private school of choice, in a manner similar to a school voucher.

One sensible move is to embrace full Title I portability, so that states can use federal funds to help low - income students attend the district, charter, or private school of their choice.

• School choice — a strong effort to provide additional federal funds to states that allow funding to follow students to their public or private school of choice.

Including closing weak charter schools or cutting off public funding to private schools of choice if they diminish achievement?

Fourth, Congress could enact Senator Lamar Alexander's proposed «G.I. Bill for Children,» which would give needy K — 12 students grants (in participating states) the equivalent of Pell Grants with which to pay tuition at the private school of their choice.

In the fall, 870 students in kindergarten through 3rd grade whose families earned less than two and a half times the federal poverty level and who would otherwise attend some of the worst schools in the city received vouchers worth up to $ 6,000 to attend private schools of their choice.

Title I portability proposals should incorporate language similar to that included in the law authorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to children from low - income families living in the nation's capital to attend a private school of choice.

Any proposal to allow states to have their Title I dollars follow children to private schools of choice must be coupled with strong protections for private schools.

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.

Any reauthorization of the ESEA should allow states to make Title I dollars portable, following students to a public, charter, or private school of choice.

Students in the program receive vouchers worth up to $ 6,422 to attend a private school of choice.

One sensible move would be to embrace full Title I portability, so that states can use federal funds to help low - income students attend the district, charter, or private school of their choice.

The Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, commends Louisiana Superintendent of Education John White for his plan that would remove all of the 362 students on the Louisiana Scholarship Program waiting list, and allow them to enroll in the private school of their choice.

Tax credit scholarship programs utilize voluntary, private contributions - encouraged through tax credits - to fund scholarships for children to attend the private school of their choice.

The NAACP is involved in a lawsuit in Tallahassee, Florida where over 92,000 kids, many of them children of color and from low - income families, are at risk to lose their privately funded scholarships to attend the private schools of their choice.

These programs utilize voluntary, private contributions — encouraged through tax credits — to fund scholarships for children to attend the private school of their choice.

Mississippi Congressmen Gregg Harper, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo all supported this legislation while Rep. Bennie Thompson voted against it.Under this program, low - income students in Washington D.C., usually stuck in failing public schools, can receive scholarships to attend the private school of their choice.

61 % of those surveyed agree with an Arizona law that provides tax credit scholarships to special education students in traditional public schools, allowing them to attend the public or private school of their choice.

His goal is to be a member of a symphonic orchestra, and both public and private schools of choice were an important part of his educational experience.

During the 2011 - 12 school year, 3,919 students received vouchers to attend a private school of their choice.

Trump's desire to see federal dollars follow poor children to the public or private schools of their choice echoes proposals that other Republicans have floated, including during last year's overhaul of the nation's main federal education law.

A second system — the first statewide voucher system in the country, which was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 — gave vouchers to public school students in a «failing school» to move to a public or private school of their choice, according to the conservative think tank, Washington Policy Center.

Through the Choice programs, families are able to send their children to the private school of their choice — at no cost to the family.

Established in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing and underperforming public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to enroll in the private school of their choice.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program enables more than 7,600 low - income students to attend a private school of their choice.

According to the Arizona Republic, «Ducey said he supports allowing students at failing schools to use the per - student assistance the state provides at a private school of their choice.»

Beginning today, students from across the state are able to apply to participate in the program, which allows low - income families with students enrolled in a Louisiana public school rated C, D, F or T — or entering kindergarten for the first time — to enroll in the participating private school of their choice.

The basic premise behind school vouchers is that a family receives credit for a certain amount of money that they can then apply towards tuition at the private school of their choice.

Establish in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

I can see the intuitive appeal of using money the government would otherwise spend on public schools to allow families to escape to private schools of their choice.

Also, private schools of choice must administer the state test, which may limit private school participation and provide a strong incentive for participating schools to narrow their curricula and «teach to the test.»

These government funded dollars will serve as tuition payments for families who want to send their children to a private school of choice.

From 1990 to 2011, students in six states and Washington, D.C., received $ 2.8 billion in voucher funds to attend private schools of choice.

Tax - credit scholarships allow individuals and businesses to reduce their state tax liability by making a private donation to a nonprofit organization that provides students scholarships to attend private schools of their choice.

As part of the program, children attending public schools rated below average can enter a lottery for LSP vouchers providing tuition at eligible private schools of their choice.

It expands the New Orleans school - choice voucher program — which currently allows 1,800 low - income students to attend a private school of their choice — to low - income students throughout Louisiana.

More than 32,000 students in Indiana alone receive vouchers to attend private schools of their choice.

Created in 2008 and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

Wisconsin currently has four programs that afford financially challenged families the opportunity to attend a private school of their choice with a voucher.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students enrolled in C, D or F - rated schools to transfer to the participating private school of their choice.

Vouchers — the idea that the state would give families a sum of money that they could use to enroll their child at the public or private school of their choice — had been largely ignored until its revival by 1960s liberals.

In the battle to fully fund the Louisiana Scholarship Program, parents were front and center as advocates for the program that allows their children to escape underperforming schools by attending the participating private school of their choice.

A voucher would give a kid a chance to opt out of a failing public school and use his education dollars to pay for a private school of his choice.

Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live in towns that don't have district public schools to receive their per - pupil education tax dollars to pay tuition at a neighboring town's public school or a private school of their choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.

After about 14 years, some 70,000 mostly low - income and minority students annually take advantage of vouchers that allow them the opportunity to attend any private school of their choice.

All around me, mums are borrowing unstained school uniforms for their daughters to wear to interviews at their private school of choice.

Not exact matches

Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

The UCP consistently uses the neoliberal buzzword «choice» to describe the supposed benefits of private schools — as if ordinary voters had the choice to sent their kids to a school that charges $ 26,000 a year for the privilege.