The partial
scholarship program requires listed students to pay only for their food and accommodation while the tuition fee is entirely waived off.
Not exact matches
The plan, known as the Excelsior
Scholarship program, includes incentives to ensure that more students graduate on time, including
requiring that each year, students complete the full - time requirement of 30 credits per year.
They agreed to «accept responsibility for the conditions under which the laboratory was operated,» to create a law school
scholarship in Sheri's name and to establish, in all the chemistry labs on all of the system's 10 campuses, an extensive
program of
required safety training and compliance for all lab workers.
Scholarship funds will offset either all or a portion of the tuition and fees
required to attend the educational
program.
By
requiring that the
scholarship recipients be the children of homeowners, the
program addresses pledges Mr. McDermott made in his campaign.
Many
programs, including TBB, offer need - based
scholarships, but accessing those funds
requires both information and guidance, a tall order in urban schools where a single college counselor can have 700 students on his or her caseload.
A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide
scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not
require the creation of a new direct - spending
program.
Every STC
program requires that
scholarship organizations spend no more than 10 % on administrative costs, the exceptions being Florida's 3 % maximum and Pennsylvania's unnecessarily high 20 % maximum.
A more interesting thing was the Children's
Scholarship Fund
program, in which 1.25 million families applied for 40,000
scholarships, each of which
requires that recipients spend at least $ 1,000 out of their own pocket.
Additional amendments
required private school students to take the state's standardized tests and the state to fully fund its school aid formula before implementing the
scholarship program.
For this reason, students who decide to use their $ 500
scholarships at private schools would still be
required to participate in their state's testing
program.
Some colleges and universities, such as both the University of California and California State University systems,
require a diploma from an accredited high school, as do various state - based
scholarship programs and some military - enlistment
programs.
Moreover, the NYC
program was only a partial
scholarship, which as far as I can tell
required families to pay for a portion of schooling (which makes it hard to generalize to families that could not afford to pay).
On school requirements, the
program requires schools to have state approval and administer a nationally norm referenced test to
scholarship students, but avoids unnecessary regulations.
Those, like Louisiana's
scholarship program, that
require participating private schools to administer the same, uniform statewide assessment levied on the public school system.
The Louisiana
Scholarship Program (LSP)
requires that participating private schools administer LSP students the same assessments
required of students at district schools statewide.
Lawmakers sent a pretty clear signal about what they think about teacher training when they decided to defund the NC Teaching Fellows
program, which provides
scholarships to undergrads seeking degrees in education and
requires that they teach in the state for four years after graduation.
For local education agencies that have schools in the bottom five percent of achievement and are mandated to participate in the statewide
scholarship program, the shift of state and
required local BEP funding from these local education agencies to the non-public participating schools is estimated as follows: $ 16,570,000 in FY15 - 16; $ 25,473,800 in FY16 - 17; $ 34,815,000 in FY17 - 18; and an amount exceeding $ 69,630,000 in FY18 - 19 and subsequent years.
Utah Code Section 53A - 1a - 704 (10)
requires that parents of students with an IEP who are enrolled in public schools be notified of the availability of a
scholarship to attend a private school through the Carson Smith Scholarsh
scholarship to attend a private school through the Carson Smith
ScholarshipScholarship Program.
Stam gutted and amended S456 to
require the state to award more Opportunity
Scholarships (also known as school vouchers) to kindergartners and first graders, a move seen by some as a set up for the
program's expansion down the road.
In the first two years of the
program,
scholarship organizations were
required to award 70 percent of
scholarship funds to students who previously attended a public school («switchers») or to switchers who already received a
scholarship.
However, if a federal policy encouraged or
required states to adopt or expand their own tax credit
scholarship programs, the opportunities for double - dipping could multiply.
In 2018 — 19, the
program will
require 45 percent of
scholarship recipients to be switchers.
There's the aforementioned Corporate Tax Credit Voucher, Voluntary Pre-K, McKay
Scholarship for Exceptional Education Students (ESE) students and a targeted ESA
program called the Gardiner Personal Learning Account that expanded the pool of eligible ESE to include 504 classifications and
requires recipients to relinquish their right to public education.
The regulation proposed in Georgia would
require all SGOs participating in tax - credit
scholarship programs to issue
scholarships to any student wishing to attend any school.
All College
Scholarship Program applicants are
required to have eligible SAT and / or ACT test scores in order to apply.
The
programs require authorizations for companies and the subsequent
scholarship contributions to be made by the end of the year.
In particular, the study found severe accountability problems with both
programs, most notably: they do not serve students in rural areas where there were virtually no private schools or
scholarship organizations (SOs) present; they fund primarily religious schools, which are not
required to be accredited or adhere to the same standards for curricula as public schools; they do not
require the same testing requirements as public schools, making it impossible to gauge student achievement; and they do not
require reporting by schools or SOs.
Many
Scholarship Organizations now
require their families who receive
scholarships to write to their elected officials to thank them for their support of the initiative, thus generating thousands of letters a year to Harrisburg on behalf of the EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit)
Program.
Even targeted taxcredit initiatives still
require the involvement of taxpayers, businesses, and
scholarship organizations, which provide crucial organizational and political support for the
programs.
Neither the EITC nor the OSTC
programs require students using «
scholarships» to take any tests to measure academic achievement.
Students participating in the Louisiana
Scholarship Program are granted admission through a lottery process and are
required to take all state assessments.
After the
required verification, ITINERIS's Special Education Department forwards all applications for the Carson Smith Special Education
Program to the Utah State Department of Special Education for inclusion in the lottery conducted by the state for this
scholarship.
For example, participating private schools in the McKay
Scholarship Program in Florida are not
required to report any evidence or data of student outcomes.36 Similarly, the Georgia Department of Education releases an annual report at the end of school year for its Special Needs
Scholarship Program, but it does not include any information on student achievement.37 Parents can not make informed decisions about the best school for their child without comparable data on student outcomes.
However, students are
required to deal with
scholarship essay when they apply for the
scholarship program.
Many colleges choose to only
require essays for the most competitive
programs, such as honors
programs, engineering, and nursing, or for
scholarships, where additional information may be more instrumental in making decisions.
Profile: (CSS / Financial Aid Profile); A customized financial aid application form
required by certain colleges and
scholarship programs, which collects additional financial information to determine eligibility for institutional aid.
Scholarship and fellowship money that is NOT used for tuition, any kind of school fees, or cost of
required books and school supplies (you must be enrolled in an undergraduate degree
program)
Requires all schools to visibly display the Florida state motto, «In God We Trust,» and allows tenants of commercial property to direct tax revenue of up to $ 57.5 million in rent into the account of two
scholarship programs.
As early childhood
programs increasingly
require or encourage higher credentials for staff, states must bolster their existing
scholarship programs to help offset the cost of tuition and other expenses.
Through the Oregon
Scholarship Program,
scholarships are available for professional training and education leading to credentialing, as well as Oregon Registry credential application fees and fees associated with the observation
required for the credential.