Sentences with phrase «receiving public vouchers»

Supporters say private schools offer an option for parents whose children have been failed by traditional public schools, but opponents note schools receiving public vouchers maintain policies that are openly discriminatory toward LGBTQ students and their families.

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The sponsor of a material threat medical countermeasure application that receives a priority review voucher under this section may transfer (including by sale) the entitlement to such voucher to a sponsor of a human drug for which an application under section 505 (b)(1) or section 351 (a) of the Public Health Service Act will be submitted after the date of the approval of the material threat medical countermeasure application.

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.

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.

In Cleveland, children who accept a voucher get only $ 2,250 in government funding; those in public schools receive $ 7,746, the highest of any district in Ohio.

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.

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.

First, our evaluation found that families reported obtaining higher - quality services in a private setting with a McKay voucher than they had received in public schools.

When participants in Florida's McKay voucher program were surveyed, only 30 percent reported they had received all services required under federal law from their previous public school, while 86 percent reported their McKay school provided all the services they promised to provide.

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.

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.

Only 30.2 percent of voucher participants said they received all services required under federal law from their public school, while 86 percent reported their McKay school provided all the services they promised to provide.

Families have to be low - income to receive a voucher in Louisiana so public schools represent the main plausible alternative.

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

They will note that vouchers in DC are worth almost 1/3 as much as the per pupil funding received by DC's traditional public schools and almost half as much as DC's charter schools.

In this view, public schools will struggle to meet the higher standards — and not receive the resources with which to do so — and this will open the door to the expansion of charter schools, private - school voucher programs, and online virtual learning.

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.

Thus they once faced the prospect of vouchers but no longer do because they have survived the four - year time period without receiving another F. Analyzing this group clarifies whether schools continue to improve relative to the rest of the public schools in Florida once the threat of vouchers disappears.

Their students then become eligible to receive vouchers, called opportunity scholarships, which they can use at another public school or at a private school.

Private schools that elected to participate by accepting vouchers as payment also had to administer the Louisiana state assessment to voucher - receiving students and were graded by the state using the same A-F scheme the state used for its public schools.

Statewide, students receiving vouchers were low - achieving before entering private schools (on average, performing at the 42nd percentile compared to public - and private - school students statewide).

Meanwhile, also on Monday, studies of two existing voucher programs in Louisiana and Indiana were released showing that after an initial backslide, students receiving vouchers make up ground and perform roughly as well as their public school peers after a few years.

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.

And the achievement of students receiving vouchers appears to be as high as or higher than that of students in comparable public schools.

Findings: Louisiana — Students who applied to the Louisiana Scholarship Program in 2012 --- 13, won a school - level random lottery to receive a voucher, and attended a private school in 2012 — 13 and 2013 — 14 experienced a decrease in academic achievement compared to their peers who did not win the lottery and instead attended public schools.

However, an insistence on the secular control of public funds meant that Catholic and other church - based schools could not receive publicly funded vouchers, even in academically failing school districts where other private schools are unavailable to poor students.

First, he uses a 2002 GAO study to say that students who receive vouchers fare no better than comparable public school students, even though a veritable mountain of evidence to the contrary has been published since then.

Given the ferocity of the debate over vouchers, it is often forgotten that early in the history of the United States, religiously affiliated schools at times received generous public funding from states and cities.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

For instance, most private schools in the Milwaukee voucher program «lack the full complement of educational programs that students with disabilities are entitled to if they receive their education in the public sector,» and as a result, students with disabilities have been discouraged or excluded from participating.

Students accepting vouchers would not necessarily receive all the services listed on the IEP that they currently receive in their public school.

These tax credit programs, sometimes referred to as «neovouchers» or back - door vouchers, have received less public scrutiny than vouchers, even as they currently comprise the largest private school choice programs in numbers of students.

Trinity Christian isn't the only high profile private school basketball program to receive public dollars by way of the state's school voucher program.

[4] Recent research has concluded that public school students who receive vouchers to attend private schools score much lower on both reading and math tests than similar students who remain in the public schools.

A: If a public school student receiving special education services had applied to attend a new school district through the state's open enrollment program and was denied, that student could receive a voucher that school year.

Contract with a certified public accountant to perform a financial review for schools that accept students who receive more than $ 300,000 in voucher grants

This testing disparity exists even though private schools receiving vouchers can and frequently do refuse to accept students with special needs, while public schools, laudably, may turn no one away.

Still Milwaukee public school students fared better than those students who received vouchers to attend private and charter schools.

A private religious school receiving by far the largest payout from the state's new school voucher program was in financial trouble during the last school year, pleading for help from the public online to fund its $ 150,000 shortfall so the school could complete the 2013 - 14 school year.

Private schools that participate in the D.C. program don't have to disclose the number of voucher students they enroll or how much public money they receive, and many declined to release such information to The Post.

Yet, private schools receiving the vouchers are not bound by the accountability or reporting requirements assigned to their public counterparts.

«Wisconsin now has more than 32,000 students statewide enrolled in its voucher plan, even though approximately three - quarters of the new students receiving that public money were already attending private schools.

He says requiring public, charter and private schools that receive voucher money to teach to the same standards will diminish school choice in Indiana.

Walker has said he supports subjecting all schools that receive taxpayer money to the same level of scrutiny and has supported legislation aimed at doing that in the past legislative session, including giving report cards to all public, charter and private voucher schools.

If the Greensboro Islamic Academy — or any other school receiving taxpayer funds under the new school voucher program — finds itself in a situation in which it can not complete the next school year thanks to financial instability, then recovering public voucher dollars would likely be impossible.

The school is the biggest recipient of all those participating in the state's new Opportunity Scholarship Program, having already received 43 school vouchers totaling more than $ 90,000 dollars in public funds.