Both the Wisconsin and Milwaukee Parental Choice Programs allow families to
send their children to private schools tuition - free through a voucher program.
Not exact matches
On issues like
tuition vouchers for families
to send their
children to private and parochial
schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)
If you're thinking about
sending your
child to a nearby
private school, then make sure it has a good reputation and an affordable
tuition before you take the plunge.
In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public
school parents say they would
send their
children to private schools if they could afford the
tuition.
There is no assurance that these studies have successfully controlled for an intangible factor: the willingness of parents
to pay
tuition to send their
children to private school and all that this implies about the value they place on education.
Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter
schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated;
private school vouchers, which cover all or part of
private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public
school vouchers) that allow parents
to send their
child to any public
school in the district.
Most controversially,
school choice also includes vouchers and
tuition tax - credits, which allow families
to use public dollars in order
to send their
children to private schools or provide tax credits
to individuals or corporations that make donations
to organizations that grant scholarships
to students.
In their simplest form, legislated
tuition tax credits would permit those people who
send their
children to private schools a credit on their income...
Parents who live in Pennsylvania's Southeast Delco district but
send their
children to private schools or
to other districts will not receive the
tuition reimbursements they expected.
Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who
sent their
children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public
school taxes and again by paying
tuition for their
children's
private schools.
offer parents the option
to receive money in an account that they can use for
private school tuition and other educational expenses
to supplement learning or in lieu of
sending their
children to public
schools
ESA's, known as «Vouchers 2.0» by education reformers, offer parents the option
to receive money in an account that they can use for
private school tuition and other educational expenses
to supplement learning or in lieu of
sending their
children to public
schools.
These government funded dollars will serve as
tuition payments for families who want
to send their
children to a
private school of choice.
But when its contract was approaching expiration a few years ago, the town decided
to give local parents the option of
sending their
children to private schools as well, and the town would cover
tuition up
to the amount that it was spending per pupil at the neighboring district
school (about $ 12,000).
They include publicly - funded scholarship programs; tax credit programs that grant businesses or individuals a tax credit for donations
to private, nonprofit scholarship - granting organizations; and personal tax credit or deduction programs that offer parents a tax credit or deduction for
tuition and other education - related expenses incurred in
sending their own
children to school.
In some neighborhoods, families have a choice of
sending their
children to high - performing district
schools or affording a
private or parochial education; meanwhile, many families in low - performing districts who can not afford
to pay
tuition have no high - quality choices — or can't gain access
to the handful that do exist.
A little known benefit of working at a
private school is that faculty and staff usually can
send their
children to the
school for a reduced rate, a service known as
tuition remission.
This change
to 529 savings accounts immediately benefit wealthy families who already
send their
children to private schools, but now they will be able
to offset their
tuition that they already intended
to pay for, but now can receive a tax credit for it.
They would be able
to send their
children to the local public
school, or they can receive a voucher valued at roughly $ 600 and use it
to help pay for
tuition at a
private or parochial
school, or at a public
school in another district.