Sentences with phrase «support voucher»

The alternative would be a dedicated state fund to support the voucher school district.

Denise Marshall, executive director stated: «COPAA is frequently brought into discussions about the voucher dilemma — whether to allow precious tax dollars to support voucher programs regardless of such programs» support of the civil rights of students, specifically those with disabilities.

«Dan Patrick couldn't get his Senate to support the voucher bill he wanted, so he took whatever he could get.

I support voucher students taking the state exam if they choose to and opening up the door for a menu of national norm - referenced tests as well.

Most Republicans support voucher programs; most Democrats vote against them.

Moreover, Trump's approach tramples on states» rights as he is encouraging states to divert $ 110 billion of their own money to support his voucher program.

Let's imagine that a significant number of Floridian parents support the voucher program, employ it, and are happy with it.

Those who support the voucher program have been discussing the possibility of loosening its eligibility guidelines for at least a year.

Many families support voucher programs, as it allows them to use tax dollars they pay for education, but aren't able to use otherwise if they elect to attend a school other than the local private school.

This is the same Department of Education that can't support a voucher program in Washington DC to help minority children escape the grinding incompetence of the DC school system.

Still a third national survey (1997) discovered not only that a strong majority of African - Americans (57 percent) and Hispanics (65 percent) favored vouchers, but also that it was precisely the black age group most likely to have children in the public schools (those 26 to 35) who supported vouchers most strongly (86.5 percent!).

(2) Parochial school aid: In addition to supporting a voucher system, the Reagan administration has been indefatigable in its desire to channel public money generally into private schools.

He didn't just support vouchers to religious schools but allowed religious ideas in science class rooms in public schools.

It found that 54 % of the public support vouchers, with only 41 % opposed.

I am a Democrat, and I support vouchers, tax credits, etc. with all of my heart and in the deepest and truest place in my being.

On the other hand, the less - educated are only 5 percentage points more likely to support vouchers targeted to low - income families than are the more - educated (38 % to 33 %).

PDK is thus clearly suggesting to respondents that people who support public education — as most Americans do — can not at the same time support vouchers.

Every voucher and tax - credit scholarship program is at least fiscally neutral, and most produce significant savings for school districts, according to the foundation, which supports vouchers and other forms of school choice.

But even if the PDK / Gallup finding that only 34 percent of Americans support vouchers were correct, who cares?

As we've heard since the DeVos announcement on Wednesday, some education pundits seem to believe that supporting vouchers is dooming the republic; that there is some larger good served by state - run school monopolies where low - income kids have the least leverage and the least opportunity.

Thirty - nine percent now say they support vouchers, an 8 - percentage - point reversal from the 31 percent support the idea received just a year ago.

I am uneasy supporting vouchers.

Low - income, black, and Hispanic respondents were even more favorable with between 72 and 74 percent supporting vouchers.

In 1990, the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) was enacted and is now the nation's oldest and largest tax - supported voucher program for low - income students.

Sixty - eight percent of African Americans and 61 percent of Hispanics supported vouchers in 2007, but only 51 percent and 47 percent of the two groups, respectively, take a similar position in 2010.

In the aforementioned Education Next poll, 55 percent of respondents supported tax credit scholarships and 45 percent supported vouchers.

All of the Black leaders who supported vouchers, most especially Polly, took a lot of abuse from critics, who made all kinds of wild claims, including that conservatives were using us to push their own hidden agenda.

Both African Americans and Hispanics are markedly more likely to support vouchers than are whites.

She also made clear that she was supporting vouchers in a Washington test case, not for her home state.

In 2002 he gave a private pledge to business leaders organized by Terence C. Golden, a former Reagan administration Treasury official and chief executive of Host Marriott, to support vouchers as part of a broader initiative to help charter and regular public schools.

Passage of House Bill 1347 ultimately depended on the votes of rural legislators unaccustomed to supporting vouchers.

These and other results suggest that some of the most prominent ideas that dominate current policy debates — from supporting vouchers to doubling down on high - stakes tests to cutting federal education funding — are out of step with parents» main concern: They want their children prepared for life after they complete high school.

NERMEEN SHAIKH: Diane Ravitch, DeVos supports vouchers and charter schools.

Votes on vouchers consistently follow party lines, with a few urban Democrats breaking ranks to support vouchers and a few Republicans in opposition.

Stanford University education professor Martin Carnoy declares his intent to interject a «balanced perspective» in an empirical literature written «mainly by researchers who openly and actively support vouchers» and media that «report results from these analyses without necessary caveats and alternative views.»

While 45 percent of the American public supported vouchers in 2007, only 31 percent did so in 2010.

When non-public school parents were included in the survey sample, 48 percent supported vouchers.

In a 2002 interview, Williams explained the parameters under which she supported vouchers and which, by that time, had led to rifts with her former allies.

Cities led by Milwaukee and Cleveland started programs providing tax - supported vouchers for low - income children to take to private schools.

Addressed to Chairman Lamar Alexander (R — Tenn.) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D — Wash.), the bill's architects, NSBA's letter also calls upon the Committee «to oppose any proposals supporting vouchers or tuition tax credits to non-public schools» throughout the legislative process.

The fact that Walton also has supported voucher efforts across the nation shouldn't raise fears that that's what charter supporters here want, Mullin said.

Trump's secretary of education, Betsy DeVos, supports vouchers, virtual schools, and other education policies that will harm students in rural areas and small towns.

While President Trump was still a candidate, he vowed that his administration would allocate $ 20 billion to support vouchers for school choice, a likely source being Title 1 funds that currently go to about two - thirds of America's public schools.

That could end up being a gift, he said, from Duncan to Betsy DeVos, President - elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary and a prominent proponent of taxpayer - supported vouchers for private and religious schools.

Although some education reformers who support vouchers can be quick to create a false narrative around the reasons why, it is true that many of us, including myself, believe that school choice should be public school choice.

That compares to 45 percent of the public who support vouchers, a slight increase over last year.

New LSU Reilly Center for Media & Public Affairs survey found that 58 percent of Louisiana public school parents support vouchers.

I have no doubt that most reformers — those who support vouchers and those who don't — believe they have the best interests of children at heart.

Education reform, largely a footnote in the presidential campaign, emerged at the tail end of last night's debate in a brief exchange between the candidates over whether D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee supports vouchers or charter schools.

In May, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice released the results of a national survey in which 60 percent of American adults said they support vouchers.