Sentences with phrase «rates than the voucher»

This is likely because most voucher schools charge tuition rates higher than the cap on voucher awards: during the 2011 - 2012 school year, 64 % of participating voucher schools charged higher tuition rates than the voucher cap.

Not exact matches

And when states fail to increase their per - child payments to keep pace with market rates, parents find themselves armed with a voucher than no one will take: Since the child care providers can make more money accepting a child whose parents can afford to pay market rates, that's what they do.

While Dallas» rate is worse than most, the challenge is similar in other cities where rents are high and the market is tight: Sometimes vouchers don't cover the rent or landlords prefer tenants without them.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study estimates that between 7.5 and 14 percent of students in Milwaukee's voucher program have disabilities, a much higher rate than the one provided by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which has stated, «about 1.6 percent of choice students have a disability.»

Still other researchers with national credentials report that low - income voucher students in Milwaukee graduate from high schools at higher rates than do public school students.

Beginning in 2003, after our data were collected, the Chilean government sought to alter several features of the system, although not all of the changes have been fully implemented: Rather than providing vouchers at a flat rate, voucher amounts are to be tied to family income.

Moreover, students offered vouchers graduated at a rate 12 percentage points higher than the control group, 82 percent to 70 percent respectively.

Based on historical attrition rates, if all the students on the waitlist remain on the waitlist, the number of voucher users this year will be about 560 lower than last year.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

Based on ratings from the organization GreatSchools, the schools participating in the Louisiana voucher program were not of lesser quality than those that did not participate, though the voucher - accepting schools did charge lower tuition.

The fact that Milwaukee voucher students advanced through their college years at better rates than the comparison group indicates that their higher high - school graduation rate was not driven by possibly - lower diploma standards in the private - school sector.

According to a report by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the private school participation rate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a highly regulated traditional school voucher program, is considerably lower than in other states.

In 2010, the U.S. Department of Education found that students who were offered a voucher in the Washington, D.C., voucher lottery graduated high school at a rate 12 percentage points higher than students in the control group.

The graduation rate among students who actually used the voucher was 21 percentage points higher than that of the control group.

Findings: New York, NY — African American and Hispanic students offered vouchers to attend private elementary schools in 1997 attended college within five years of expected high school graduation at a rate 4 percentage points higher than the control group and obtained a bachelor's degree at a rate 2.7 percentage points higher than the control group's rate (11.7 percent vs. 9.0 percent, respectively).

Students who used their vouchers had graduation rates that were 21 percentage points higher than control - group students.

A 2010 report from the Education Department that examined the D.C. program found that graduation rates were higher among voucher recipients than public school students, according to reports from parents.

What we do know, with considerable certainty, is that while the percentage of students in the voucher schools with disabilities is substantially lower than the disability rate in the public schools, it is at least four times higher than public officials have claimed.

Over the last 15 years, the private - voucher enrollment rate increased from one - third to more than one - half of all school - age children.

But what ultimately resulted in New Living Word's expulsion from the voucher program was not its low academic standards; rather, it was found to be charging voucher students higher tuition rates than students paying their own way — which is prohibited under Louisiana's law (nothing in the North Carolina statute specifically addresses this potential consequence).

And what of the research suggesting that students in the Milwaukee voucher program graduate at higher rates than those in public schools?

In New Orleans, voucher students who struggle academically haven't advanced to grade - level work any faster over the past two years than students in the public schools, many of which are rated D or F, state data show.

In addition, students in the DC voucher program «rated their teacher's attitude» no better than students who did not participate in the program.

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.

Proponents often assert that voucher students graduate at higher rates than public school students.

The 2015 state budget changed state law to divert state funding to voucher schools at a rate much higher per student than public schools receive.