Sentences with phrase «student using vouchers»

Our findings also speak only to the achievement gains of students using vouchers to switch to a private school in grades 5 — 8.

State budgets typically save money when students use vouchers to attend private schools.

The program's original intention was to award vouchers to students attending failing schools, but data shows the number students using the vouchers who never attended a public school grew.

Among students using the voucher to attend a private school, the estimated impact was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 percent.

Students using vouchers experience academic losses that are larger than the academic gains experienced by students not using vouchers.

The story refers to one school enrolling students using vouchers that closed last year.

Students using vouchers tend to be more advantaged and higher performing than their peers who were eligible to participate in the program but remained in public schools.

A chronically failing voucher school may not accept new students using vouchers for three years after being identified and only after reapplying to participate.

Looking at longitudinal studies in Milwaukee and Louisiana, she describes them in a way that will leave the impression that the results were negative for school choice: «In both cases, programs were used primarily by black students and generally did not exacerbate segregation in public schools; however, students using vouchers did not gain access to integrated private schools, and segregation in private schools actually increased.»

In Louisiana, we have seen many life - saving schools accept students using vouchers, just as we have seen a small number of fiscally or academically irresponsible schools accept such students.

Professor Peterson said in the report that the gains by black students using vouchers were statistically significant in each city after two years.

As it is now, voucher programs don't provide enough money for a student to enroll in a high - tuition private school without additional financial help, and thus many students using vouchers go to religious schools.

But a Washington Post review found that hundreds of students use their voucher dollars to attend schools that are unaccredited or are in unconventional settings, such as a family - run K - 12 school operating out of a storefront, a Nation of Islam school based in a converted Deanwood residence, and a school built around the philosophy of a Bulgarian psychotherapist.

Without test results, for instance, we would not know that online and virtual charters appear to be demonstrably harmful to students, as are many Louisiana private schools attended by students using vouchers.

And, as more students use vouchers to attend private schools, the cost to educate those students in private schools rises, taking away the argument that it is more cost effective to educate a student in private school.

Most Students Use Vouchers to Attend Religious Schools — A significant majority of the private schools participating in the DC voucher program are religious, which threatens fundamental principles of church state separation: «A higher share of participating schools than non-participating private schools is religiously affiliated (64 percent versus 29 percent).»

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

Professor Warren's report, available here, says that Milwaukee students using vouchers were 18 per cent more likely to graduate than MPS students.

In either case, these «unobserved» variables get in the way because students using vouchers may have had different academic outcomes even if there were no voucher program.

Ohio did not conduct lotteries, but state assessments were administered to all students receiving vouchers, and the study matched students using vouchers to similar students that did not use them.

We focused on students using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school in grades 5 — 8 during the program's first four years (2011 — 12 through 2014 — 15).

Up in Fort Wayne, which has the highest number of Hoosier students using vouchers, the district has invested in billboards, promotional items and personal outreach.

The districts won't be able to raise taxes to make up the money, but will be able to start counting students using vouchers in their enrollment to determine state aid levels and revenue limits.

Notably, one public school in Saint Landry Parish (Louisiana calls its counties «parishes») was so high - performing that 20 students used their vouchers there.

St. Johns County students using vouchers increased from 111 last year to 144 this year.

During the 2011 - 2012 school year — the first year vouchers were available — around 10 percent of students using vouchers never attended an Indiana public school.

The study notes that students using the voucher for more years appear to have smaller negative effects, but, as noted above, these are not the same students being followed for more years, which is the case in Louisiana (and will be in future reports for the DC study).

Tuchtenhagen acknowledges that when students use vouchers to move to private schools, it means public schools are educating fewer kids.

This year does mark a record high for the number of students using vouchers who have never attended public school in Indiana, and more students are using state special education funds to access services through private schools.

Paul E. Peterson, a prominent voucher researcher and a professor of government at Harvard University, found last year that black students using the vouchers...

Schools accepting students using the voucher may not charge those students more than non-voucher students.

This year does mark a record high for the number of students using vouchers who have never attended public school in Indiana.

After entering a lottery based on space availability at local private schools, nearly 5,000 students used vouchers to enroll in private schools.

But, regardless of those recent patterns, that question — what happens when a student uses a voucher to move from a public to a private school — is only a very small part of what we want to know to decide about the merits of private school choice.

A study comparing the performance of students using vouchers to attend private school in Milwaukee with students who attend public schools found that students in both groups are exhibiting similar levels of growth.

In 2001, Tom Loveless, then director of the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy, wrote the following, based on then - existing research, in the Brown Center Report on American Education: «Although controversial, research generally shows positive effects for students using vouchers to attend private schools.»

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis of the Milwaukee voucher program concludes that the share of voucher students in a private school is the key to success — that private schools with few students using vouchers do well, while schools with many students using vouchers do poorly.

Given the fact for the last 40 years or so, no more than 12 percent of students have attended private schools at any point, and today a fraction of 1 percent of students use a voucher or tax credit to attend private schools, it's hard to think they're responsible for America's creationist tendencies.

Since the LSP has been reduced in size, students using the voucher in private schools will transfer back to their local public school districts.

A 2013 study found that students using vouchers to attend private schools, 70 percent of whom were black, were 5 percent more likely to enroll in a four - year college after graduating than were a carefully matched sample of students in Milwaukee public schools.

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

For example, if a student uses a voucher to attend 6th grade at a K - 8 private school and the failing public school manages to turn things around the next year, the student may keep his voucher until he completes the 8th grade.

That some students used vouchers for longer periods puts more strain on the matching method because the case that unobserved variables are affecting their outcomes gets stronger.

The study estimated that students using vouchers had lower math scores on the Louisiana state assessment — in fact, scores were quite a lot lower.

A few thousand students use vouchers, and a million or more students attend charter schools, but home - schooled students, now estimated at some 2 million, outnumber the other two groups combined.