Sentences with phrase «receive voucher students»

But which private schools in the state are eligible to receive voucher students to begin with?

He viewed the Louisiana results as commentary on accountability as much as on vouchers, hypothesizing that it could have been the increased regulations and accountability measures, which affected both public schools and private schools receiving voucher students, that led to performance gains.

Not exact matches

A report released this month by the city's public advocate, Letitia James, found that thousands of students with disabilities who were given the vouchers weren't receiving services to which they were entitled.

Schools that had received D grades and were close to the failing grade that could precipitate vouchers» being offered to their students, by contrast, appear to have achieved somewhat greater improvements than those achieved by the schools with higher state grades.

Though voucher programs tend to receive more attention, more than six in ten students attending private school through an educational choice program are using tax - credit scholarships.

The greatest improvements should be seen among schools that had already received one F grade from the state, since their students would become eligible for vouchers if they received a second F. To test this hypothesis, average FCAT scale - score improvements for schools were broken out by the grade they received the year before.

The eighth - grade class had fourteen students, six of whom received vouchers.

Supporters of the program sought the change as the number of students receiving vouchers, which are worth up to $ 6,300, neared the previous state cap.

Because parish members receive a discount on their tuition, a voucher student whose family belongs to the church nets the school $ 1,700 less in state funds than if they were nonmembers.

This year, Immaculate also began accepting the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, a different kind of voucher that allows students on Individualized Education Plans to attend private schools and receive a voucher worth up to $ 20,000, depending on the severity of a child's disability.

(In 2013 — 14, 171 students received these vouchers.)

(At current Ohio voucher levels, student receiving this assistance from Kindergarten through twelfth grade could qualify for as much as $ 58,250 in financial help.

I then assume that each school district receives that amount for each poor student enrolled in 2014 - 15: that is, I assume that no students take their vouchers to private schools.

About 100,000 students receive school vouchers funded through tax credits.

Henry Levin likewise asserts that «the evaluators found that receiving a voucher resulted in no advantage in math or reading test scores for either [low achievers or students from SINI schools].»

It put into place a school voucher program for students who were attending schools that received the grade of F twice in a row.

The treatment group included 1,358 students who received a voucher offer; the control group included 1,279 students who did not receive a voucher offer.

Paul E. Peterson speaks with Patrick Wolf of the University of Arkansas about his study finding that students in Milwaukee who received vouchers to attend private schools were 2 - 5 percentage points less likely to be accused or convicted of crimes than comparable students who attended public schools.

A study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next looked at the impact of receiving a voucher on the college enrollment rates of students in New York City.

Participating private schools with unacceptable ratings are barred from accepting new students receiving vouchers for the following year.

Students in schools that failed to meet the state's standards could receive vouchers worth about $ 4,000 each to attend any public, private, or religious school in Florida.

Though there are currently more students participating in scholarship tax credit (STC) programs than voucher programs nationwide (about 151,000 to 104,000), the former have not received nearly as much attention as the latter.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

The opposite is true: Special education vouchers discourage school districts from over-identifying disabled students, because any student identified as disabled might leave the district for a private school, reducing district revenue received from the state.

Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental control group.

34,299 students received vouchers and 313 private schools participated during the 2016 — 17 academic year.

Because they were more interested in promoting equality of opportunity than simply consumer choice, sociologist Christopher Jencks and law professors John Coons and Stephen Sugarman proposed placing some constraints on how vouchers could be used: Disadvantaged students would receive larger vouchers, and regulations would prevent any school that accepted vouchers from imposing tuition and fees beyond the value of the voucher.

So, twenty years after the enactment of Milwaukee's program, a growing body of research shows that students receiving vouchers do as well and often better than their peers in public schools and at a fraction of the taxpayer cost.

Minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

Not only would it terminate the voucher program for 4,000 children in Cleveland; it would open to challenge the Milwaukee program through which 10,000 low - income students receive up to $ 5,553 in tuition relief for private and religious schools.

The study found that minority students who received a school voucher to attend private elementary schools in 1997 were, as of 2013, 10 percent more likely to enroll in college and 35 percent more likely than their peers in public school to obtain a bachelor's degree.

Because the voucher studies compare students who won a voucher to those who did not — and those not receiving a voucher very likely ended up in the new and improved public / charter system.

It was Justice David Souter who first posed the central question to Ohio assistant attorney general Judith French: «Isn't it true that something like 99 percent of the students who were receiving these vouchers are in religious schools?»

The state of Louisiana recently banned four schools from receiving new voucher students because the scores of prior voucher recipients had been so low.

That same year 19,852 students eligible for special education took advantage of the opportunity to use a voucher to attend private schools, and 21,493 students received scholarships averaging $ 3,750 from a tax credit program that opened private schooling to students from low - income families.

Equally important, privately run schools that had not charged tuition began receiving the same per - student voucher as the public schools.

In some places, Catholic schools must participate in these, usually as a condition of receiving students with vouchers; in a handful of places, diocesan authorities have willingly joined in, but nobody would say there's been a great rush by Catholic schools to be compared — with charter schools, with district schools, with other private schools, even with each other — on the basis of academic achievement.

The remaining students attended what might be called voucher schools, because the schools, while private, had been since 1981 heavily dependent on the subsidy that the schools received from the national government for each student they enrolled.

The inadequate number of eligible applicants has led federal officials to drop plans for a study that would have compared the achievement of voucher recipients with that of students who requested the grants but didn't receive them.

Peterson and Matthew Chingos published a study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next, «The Impact of School Vouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vVouchers on College Enrollment,» that found that African - American students benefited the most from receiving vouchersvouchers.

That increased by 4 percentage points if the student received the offer of a voucher, a better than 100 percent increment in the percentage enrolled in a selective college, a very large increment from a very low baseline.

«By mid-year, she was right up there with the rest of the students,» said Nelson - Paunescu, who receives a voucher and is president of the Parent Teacher Fellowship.

If LSP funding is increased so that all waitlist students receive vouchers, the number of voucher users would still be about 120 smaller than last year.

Trying to save face and still limit the reach of the voucher program, Holder and DOJ asked federal district judge Ivan Lemelle to force the state to provide data on the students receiving vouchers and to give DOJ authority to veto vouchers for particular students.

The former principal said he supports the state's requirement that as a condition for receiving vouchers, private schools must administer the state's proficiency tests to their voucher students and report the results.

The awarding of scholarships by lottery created a rare opportunity in educational research: a field experiment in which students were assigned randomly to both public and private schools, thus allowing me to test the effects of receiving a voucher and, more generally, to compare the performance of public and private schools.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

While opponents said that vouchers had no track record of improving student performance, supporters countered that no alternative could be worse than Washington's public schools, which in any case were in line to receive more federal aid.

Because the per - pupil voucher amount our students received from the state had not increased in more than five years, we had no reserves to fall back on, and no endowment.

These schools received one F during the three school years before the 2002 - 03 administration of the FCAT; one more F during the 2002 - 03 administration and their students would have been offered vouchers.