Sentences with phrase «serving voucher students»

Yet there are approximately 120 other private schools in Milwaukee serving voucher students.

Private - school educators may need additional training to prepare for serving voucher students.

Not exact matches

The program is the oldest and one of the largest school voucher systems in the nation, serving 21,000 students, or nearly a fifth of Milwaukee's K - 12 population.

In Louisiana, participating private schools that serve more than forty voucher students must administer all of the state tests to them.

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.

In my view, these descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming.

Opportunity Scholarships Currently, 13 directly funded voucher programs operate in four U.S. cities and six states, serving approximately 65,000 students.

Who is most likely to be willing to abandon control over their admissions, accept tiny voucher amounts as payment in full for serving the lowest achieving students, and be willing to take the state achievement tests?

The report, «Special Choices: Do voucher schools serve students with disabilities?»

The report by Congress» investigative arm, «School Vouchers: Characteristics of Privately Funded Programs,» focuses on 78 such programs operating around the country that together serve 46,000 students and provide $ 60 million in tuition assistance.

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

The state voucher program served only 763 students and commanded little political support when it was struck down in 2006.

The Milwaukee voucher program is the largest and longest - running urban school choice program in the U.S., established in 1990 and now serving over 22,000 low - income students who attend 107 private schools using $ 6,000 vouchers toward tuition.

«These descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming,» Wolf says.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

Now serving more than 22,000 students in four states — Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Utah — these programs, which serve families from all social and economic boundaries, reveal the kind of broad support that vouchers can generate.

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.

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

This means that simply comparing student achievement at schools serving more and fewer voucher students is apt to be misleading.

In the weeks after the storm, the superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of New Orleans appeared before the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) urging board members to consider using vouchers as a way for the state and Catholic schools to collaborate in serving the students who remained in the city.

Apart from programs serving disabled students, only Wisconsin, Ohio, and Washington, D.C., have publicly funded voucher programs in operation.

Private schools were more likely to participate if the gap between their tuition level and the usually lower voucher amount was smaller, if they already had experience serving disadvantaged students, and if they were Catholic schools.

Private schools can decline to participate in voucher programs, but if they agree to serve students on vouchers, in most cases they must accept all comers.

Proponents of vouchers and tax policies that fund private schooling argue that for the types of students they often serve — low - income children, students with disabilities, and students in low - performing schools — it's a good investment to let parents choose a setting they think will best serve their children's needs.

Yet once in office, his administration aggressively sought to defund the DC Opportunity Scholarship program, a federally funded model voucher program serving about 1,500 students in Washington, D.C. Early on, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs made it clear that Obama's open - mindedness had reached its expiration date: «The president doesn't believe that vouchers are a long - term answer to our educational problems.»

I also think there are things you can do to solve for equity (significantly weighting vouchers for at - risk students), that will lead to higher performing private schools enrolling hard to serve kids.

The Mississippi Speech - Language Therapy Scholarship For Students With Speech - Language Impairments Program, enacted in 2013, is a special needs voucher program, serving students gradeStudents With Speech - Language Impairments Program, enacted in 2013, is a special needs voucher program, serving students gradestudents grades K - 6.

Who is most likely to be willing to abandon control over their admissions, accept tiny voucher amounts as payment in full for serving the lowest achieving students, and is willing to take the state achievement tests?

Mississippi The Dyslexia Scholarship voucher program was enacted in 2012, and serves students, grades 1 - 6, who have been diagnosed with dyslexia.

We asked them also to survey private schools in communities served by four of the country's most prominent voucher programs (city - specific programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland, statewide programs in Ohio and Indiana) to ascertain how both participating and non-participating schools view those programs and their regulations and how heavily they weigh program requirements (and other constraints) when deciding whether to sign up for and accept the programs» students.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program, which aims to serve low - income students in «low - performing» public schools, is the state's first school voucher program.

Charter schools have been known to counsel out students with disabilities out of school and private schools participating in voucher programs have dropped students that become too costly or challenging to serve.

I played a tiny role in helping launch the D.C. voucher program when I served at the U.S. Department of Education, and I support the expansion of private school choice programs for low - income students.

This educational choice program, the state's third, serves some students with special needs and can be used in conjunction with the state's two voucher programs.

«Those options do not divert federal dollars to non-public schools as vouchers and tuition tax credits do, and are effective in expanding opportunities for students and can help schools in their efforts to serve our nation's 50 million public school students.»

Scott Jensen, a former Assembly speaker and senior adviser for the pro-voucher Wisconsin Federation for Children, said in February that the planned voucher expansion was «part of a nationwide civil rights movement that empowers parents, serves students, and creates a more equal education system.»

Given that the LSP is the first statewide voucher program systematically studied (other rigorously studied programs serve smaller samples of students in urban school districts), the program's scale may have played a role;

Examples from interviews with administrators from the largest voucher programs in Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Ohio, and Wisconsin — collectively serving over two - thirds of all students in voucher programs — include:

When that data is weighted by the number of students served in each school, the religiously - affiliated schools rise to 81 % of all voucher schools.

The change would allow more students to get vouchers in the short term, and, with longer waiting lists, demonstrate increased demand that would serve as justification for the program's expansion in the long run.

Another 2,200 average school districts that have five to eight schools where vouchers may not work and risk harming existing schools» ability to serve millions of students

Public school students between ages 3 and 21 identified as disabled under federal disability rights law are eligible to receive vouchers, as well as students with special needs in private schools that served students with disabilities prior to participating in the program.

Not only could unregulated school voucher systems fail to serve the students for whom they are intended, North Carolina could be looking forward to dealing with the kind of fraud and abuse of taxpayer dollars that Milwaukee, Florida, and countless other locales have faced should these bills pass with little regulatory provisions.

«Many existing voucher programs are limited in the number and type of students they're allowed to serve and the amount of choice they're allowed to offer.

Figlio said it was important to note two things about the voucher systems he had studied — the types of students they served, and the number, and cautioned against overstating the research.

She added that voucher programs for private schools, which DeVos supports, have often failed students with disabilities — private schools either aren't willing to serve them, or require them to waive their rights under federal laws such as the ADA and the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

Since the program was created two years ago, the majority of students receiving vouchers were already attending private schools, which has served as the basis for critics» arguments against expansion.

Black and Hispanic religious leaders and civil rights activists, including Martin Luther King III, implored the Florida Education Association to drop its lawsuit challenging the voucher - like program that serves about 75,000 students.

Good Morning A school choice victory in Oklahoma — as the the Oklahoma Supreme Court upheld the state's special needs voucher program, the Lindsey Nicole Henry Scholarship for Students with Disabilities Program, which has been serving special needs students sinStudents with Disabilities Program, which has been serving special needs students sinstudents since 2010.