Sentences with phrase «school scholarships for children»

While Arizona's tax - credit programs were fully vindicated by both the Arizona and U.S. Supreme courts, 10 the voucher programs were declared unconstitutional by the Arizona Supreme Court in Cain v. Horne under a provision of the state constitution that prohibits appropriations of public funds «in aid of» private and sectarian schools.11 In the wake of Cain v. Horne, the legislature passed Lexie's Law, 12 a corporately funded scholarship - tax - credit program to help fund private school scholarships for children with disabilities.

Not exact matches

If one child decides not to go to school, goes to a cheaper school than expected, gets a full scholarship (more on that in a minute), or for some other reason doesn't use all of the money, you can simply change the beneficiary on the account and give those funds to another child... or even to yourself, if you'd like to go back to school.

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In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

Since less than 2 % of high school athletes obtain college athletic scholarship, we know that most children play sports for fun, competition, and healthy activity.

The scholarship enabled me to complete a Master's Degree — an accomplishment that opened doors to new opportunities in school nutrition that later empowered me to seek a Ph.D, and still greater opportunities for all children to have healthy meals and develop healthy food habits.

It's fun to imagine your child overcoming the odds to receive a coveted sports scholarship to play for a good school — as long as you don't define your child's worth by whether they actually do receive a college scholarship in sports.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

The compromise would have yoked the Dream Act — which provides tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — to the tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarships as well as public school programs.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

The bill includes tax credits for donors who give money for scholarships for children at private and parochial schools.

«Having advocated for children for over 20 years, as a founder of the Bison Scholarship Fund and a former school board member, I am sickened by the stories of child sexual abuse.

Half of that money would be used to fund scholarships for low - and middle - income children to attend public schools outside their district or private and parochial schools.

The money would primarily fund scholarships for poor children to attend private and religious schools.

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 20Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 20children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

Senate Republicans and Cuomo have been pressing for an education tax credit that would allow donors who give up to $ 1 million a $ 750,000 credit on their taxes, if they donate the money to fund scholarships to poor children at private schools.

Among the concessions to neighbors would be greater access to the school's athletic events, scholarships for neighborhood children to participate in sports camps and a public dock at the waterfront.

But the governor pulled back from efforts to pass an education tax credit that would benefit donors who give up to $ 1 million, if they give money to scholarships for poor children to attend private schools.

He has gotten money to build new schools; passed legislation allowing day care workers to unionize and protecting livery car drivers from violent crimes; and created a scholarship fund for the children of people killed on American Airlines Flight 587, which crashed in Queens in 2001 on its way to Santo Domingo, the Dominican capital.

Nepali provides their craftswomen with above - market compensation, access to healthcare, and full scholarships for their children to attend school.

Yet even a preliminary assessment is remarkable, beginning with John Walton's major contribution to the nationwide Children's Scholarship Fund, which revealed to a broad public the desire for school choice among low - income families.

The budget also creates the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other services.

«Today's reauthorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program should send a strong message to parents across the country who seek to fight for their children's rights: If you fight for your children and you never give up, the road will not always be easy, but in the end, justice will prevail,» said Virginia Walden Ford, executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.

We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from low - income families (defined as those making less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced - price lunch).

Activists will also focus their energies on tax - relief programs for third parties that provide scholarships for poor children to attend religious and private schools.

In 2010 and 2011, we asked instead about «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help parents send their children to private schools,» language that implies the scholarships could be used by any family, regardless of income.

For the poorest children, the schools provide scholarships or subsidized places: 7 percent of children paid no tuition and 11 percent paid reduced fees.

For some larger purchases, like private school tuition, the scholarship organizations can pay the school directly from the child's ESA.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

After supporting lifting the cap on charter schools, and sponsoring opportunity scholarship legislation for children with special needs and low - income students, I was ostracized by my party and progressive institutions in North Carolina.

In my view, the federal government should have a limited role in advancing school choice through policy (military choice, the D.C. scholarship program, and choice for children attending BIE schools being among the few exceptions).

Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

To qualify for a scholarship, children had to be entering grades 1 through 4, live in New York City, attend a public school at the time of application, and come from families with incomes low enough to qualify for the U.S. government's free or reduced - price school - lunch program.

• Traditional public educators adamantly resist vouchers, which are publicly or privately funded scholarships to families for their children to attend private schools.

Tuition scholarships for poor families are heavily oversubscribed as are charter schools in areas where officials restrict the size and number of charter schools despite the many families that desire to enroll their children.

From the Gates Foundation high school initiative to the Annenberg Challenge, from the Children's Scholarship Fund to the Broad Prize for Urban Education, philanthropic efforts are playing a catalytic role in contemporary school reform.

The fact that only public school children were eligible to apply for a scholarship in New York obviated the need to hold separate public and private lotteries there.

Children could use these scholarships at any public or private school or for any educational program, such as private tutoring.

In the spring of 1997 over 20,000 New York City elementary school children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could suschool children applied for a half - tuition voucher offered by the School Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could suSchool Choice Scholarships Foundation, and a lottery was held to pare the number of lottery winners to around thirteen hundred students, the number that SCSF resources could support.

The proposal — a bill that would provide tax credits for donations to scholarship funds that help children pay tuition at private schools — is similar to programs that are growing in popularity in other states.

In the late 1960s, Theodore Sizer, then at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, proposed a «Poor Children's Bill of Rights» that would have supplied scholarships of $ 5,000 per child to the poorest half of children in the United States, for use at any accredited school, public or prSchool of Education, proposed a «Poor Children's Bill of Rights» that would have supplied scholarships of $ 5,000 per child to the poorest half of children in the United States, for use at any accredited school, public or Children's Bill of Rights» that would have supplied scholarships of $ 5,000 per child to the poorest half of children in the United States, for use at any accredited school, public or children in the United States, for use at any accredited school, public or prschool, public or private.

• When not given a neutral option, 73 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 27 % opposed.

• 57 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 16 % opposed.

It's providing scholarships to children and families at a very young age and actively mentoring students in middle school, high school, and through college, focusing on what it will take for them to succeed.

The Corporate School Tuition Organization Tax Credit provides scholarships for low and lower - middle - income children to attend private schools.

Florida The John M. McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program provides private school vouchers to assist children with special needs in Florida.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

Indiana The Corporate and Individual Scholarship Tax Credit Program provides scholarships for low and lower - middle income children to attend private schools.

Iowa The Individual School Tuition Organization Tax Credit provides scholarships for low and lower - middle income children to attend private schools.