Sentences with phrase «statewide voucher program»

Today, policy advocates are way out in front of the evidence, especially with the current proliferation of statewide voucher programs.

Under the proposed 2015 - 17 state budget, the cap on the two - year - old statewide voucher program, currently at 1,000 students, would be slowly increased over 10 years.

Studies of other statewide voucher programs have made similar findings.

Although we have much to discover about the impacts of statewide voucher programs, we are beginning to understand what policymakers and educators should consider when implementing new ones.

Another possible reason for the uninspiring results is that the private schools that participate in statewide voucher programs are simply not very effective.

Nearly three of every four students in the expanded statewide voucher program for 2014 - 15 were already attending private schools prior to this school year, state education officials announced Wednesday.

The negative math effects in the early years are similar to recent findings for students participating in new statewide voucher programs in Louisiana and Ohio, though smaller in magnitude.

WFC spokesman Brian Fraley, a former editor of conservative blog Right Wisconsin, said the name change reflects a new commitment to the state particularly with an important upcoming election that could affect the ability of the state to expand a recently created statewide voucher program beyond 1,000 students.

That's not the same as saying a little more than half came from private schools, but either way it's definitely a better deal for taxpayers than having to pay tuition for the 73 percent of students in the expanded statewide voucher program whose families were already sending their kids to private school.

Texas, Wisconsin and New Jersey each considered statewide voucher programs during this year's legislative sessions.

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;

«It is no surprise that State District Judge Tim Kelley today ruled the unnecessarily aggressive and overreaching statewide voucher program unconstitutional,» Landrieu said.

Louisiana is one of two states where statewide voucher programs have been studied.

In Indiana and Louisiana, for example, despite much - vaunted statewide voucher programs, only a third of private schools participate.

In the past few years, new statewide voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax - credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look like.

Harris points only to research on statewide voucher programs in Louisiana and Ohio that found negative impacts, but he ignores the near - consensus of more than a dozen random - assignment studies that found modest positive impacts on student performance on tests as well as on high school graduation and college matriculation.

Burke also rejects expanding the two - year - old statewide voucher program, calling it an «entitlement program» for families who send their children to private schools, noting most students attending private schools in the program did not attend public schools previously.

Ms. DeVos entered educational advocacy primarily as a backer of statewide voucher programs, which was considered a «fringe idea» until her family pushed it to the front and center of the Republican Party.

One of the most talked - about education studies in recent months is a new working paper on the effects of Louisiana's statewide voucher program during its first year of operation.

Nass, Stroebel and Kapenga wrote a memo demanding amendments that would prohibit UW from spending $ 4 million on diversity training for students and faculty; raise the income eligibility for the statewide voucher program to 300 percent of the federal poverty level; repeal the state prevailing wage on Jan. 1; and forbid municipalities to impose any wheel tax not approved through a referendum.

The Florida Supreme Court's decision striking down a statewide voucher program has sparked speculation that the ruling will aid efforts to battle other voucher initiatives, and could even pose a threat to charter schools.

Outlining an agenda that includes both more money for schools and tax breaks for Florida residents, Gov. Jeb Bush urged legislators last week to support what could become the first statewide voucher program in the country.

The first, conducted by Abdulkadiroglu, Pathak, and Walters, showed significant negative effects for students participating in private school voucher programs in both math and English in 2012 - 2013, the first school year of the statewide voucher program's existence.

Louisiana schools participating in the statewide voucher program in 2012 - 2013 had never before participated in an accountability system using standard measures.

In the first round, the state supreme court in 2004 struck down a statewide voucher program enacted by the legislature for the benefit of students in low - performing districts.

If the Richland Parish case haunted the choice provisions of NCLB, it is likely to haunt as well a new statewide voucher program that Louisiana has launched for low - income students who attend underperforming schools.

Just four statewide voucher programs have been formally evaluated, and only one has shown any signs of success.

Louisiana's statewide voucher program is available to low - income students in low - performing public schools.

To support my case, I presented three categories of evidence: (1) the fact that national reform groups seem deeply concerned about Detroit; (2) the similarity in performance between the city's charter and traditional public schools; and (3) the large negative effects of two statewide voucher programs on student outcomes.

Just four statewide voucher programs have been formally evaluated, and only one has shown any signs of success,» he writes, emphasizing that in no other field would policymakers move forward with such a tenuous understanding of potential impact.

The statewide voucher program in Florida affected only two public schools directly.

(In our toolkit, we applaud Louisiana and Indiana policymakers for doing a darn good job on this front with their statewide voucher programs.)

For example, the statewide voucher program in Florida provides a voucher to students in low - performing schools.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and fellow Republicans in the state legislature are working on several fronts to respond to a recent court decision that struck down a statewide voucher program.

The New Hampshire House is scheduled to vote on SB 193, the bill that creates a statewide voucher program through education freedom savings accounts, on Wednesday, January 3.

Since inception and through last school year, payments to private and religious schools in Wisconsin for the statewide voucher program total $ 10,557,520.

The House Finance Committee will hold a public hearing on SB 193, the bill that would create a statewide voucher program, on Tuesday, January 16 at 1:30 p.m. in LOB 210 - 211.

In addition, there are 31 new private schools applying to participate in the statewide voucher program.

Expanding the income limits for the statewide voucher program would add an additional 550 students in 2018 - 19, according to the Legislative Fiscal Bureau.

While Republican Senators oppose increasing income limits, the word is that they would support lifting enrollment caps for the statewide voucher program.

Gov. Scott Walker's two - year budget calls for lifting caps on the statewide voucher program.