Sentences with phrase «than voucher programs»

That allows tax credits to assist many more families than voucher programs with the same amount of funding - and tax credits build a larger customer base, which helps politically.

Second, school choice is bigger than voucher programs and charter schools.

Tax - credit initiatives are spreading more quickly than voucher programs, and a close look at the public opinion data suggests that is likely to continue.

Though there are currently more students participating in scholarship tax credit (STC) programs than voucher programs nationwide (about 151,000 to 104,000), the former have not received nearly as much attention as the latter.

For that reason, tax credits — rather than a voucher program — would be a more practical way to provide help to non-public school patrons.

Not exact matches

Mr. Schneiderman said he voted in favor of the voucher program, which involves providing homeless sex offenders $ 90 a night to stay in a motel, even though he didn't like it because he believed it was a better plan than the current trailer policy.

More than a third of U.S. states have created school voucher programs that bypass thorny constitutional and political issues by turning them over to nonprofits that rely primarily on businesses to fund them.

He said it was no different than a church asking its parishioners for donations — even though the state created the voucher program.

Jane Corwin is a Trojan Horse candidate for the GOP, who will be a reliable vote to gut Medicare and repalce it with a voucher program that would not even begin to cover any stay in the ER for anything worse than a hangnail.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Though voucher programs tend to receive more attention, more than six in ten students attending private school through an educational choice program are using tax - credit scholarships.

Polling by Education Next and others continues to find that the public prefers universal programs to means - tested approaches — responding more positively, for instance, to the notion of vouchers for all than to vouchers for low - income families only (see «The 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform,» features, Winter 2016).

The third intervention was reported to have boosted math achievement by less than half the amount of the reading gain from the D.C. voucher program.

Earlier experimental evaluations of voucher programs were somewhat more likely to report achievement gains from the programs in math than in reading — the opposite of what was observed for the OSP.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study estimates that between 7.5 and 14 percent of students in Milwaukee's voucher program have disabilities, a much higher rate than the one provided by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which has stated, «about 1.6 percent of choice students have a disability.»

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 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 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 program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

We've gone from two, century - old voucher programs in Maine and Vermont to having private school choice in more than half of the states.

Such a strategy also calls for researchers to ask more nuanced questions than simply whether or not voucher programs are better than public school programs.

The history of the MPCP illustrates how voucher programs can provide significant taxpayer savings when students voluntarily choose to attend schools that draw less on public funds than the schools they would otherwise attend.

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.

The Florida program is more regulated than other tax credit scholarship programs, but less regulated than most voucher programs, according to a 2013 Fordham Institute study.

The FTC program is effectively a means - tested voucher program, but it is called a tax credit scholarship program because rather than being funded directly by the government it is supported by corporate donations to non-profit organizations (which distribute the scholarships).

There are more children being home schooled than there are in all of the voucher programs combined.

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

In fact, more children (60,000) participate in privately funded voucher programs than in publicly funded programs.

So, twenty years after the enactment of Milwaukee's program, a growing body of research shows that students receiving vouchers do as well and often better than their peers in public schools and at a fraction of the taxpayer cost.

Researchers have shown that Catholic schools are more racially integrated than public schools and that voucher programs do not have an adverse effect on integration.

Yet in the same year the EWA guide was published, Gerard Robinson, then a senior fellow at Marquette University's Institute for the Transformation of Learning, summarized 42 studies from more than a decade of research involving educational voucher programs.

More than 200 students had already begun the school year at religious schools, planning to use state vouchers for tuition, when the Wisconsin Supreme Court halted the program on Aug. 25 with a temporary injunction.

While younger students may have benefited slightly from the voucher program after one year, the older students who switched to private schools scored significantly lower than their public - school peers after one year.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

None of the independent studies performed of the most lauded and long standing voucher programs extant in the U.S. — Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Cleveland, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. — found any statistical evidence that children who utilized vouchers performed better than children who did not and remained in public schools.

Rather than trying to compel equity of access through regulations that instead drive schools out of the program, we should incentivize equity by having student - weighted voucher amounts.

In Milwaukee, home to the nation's oldest and largest voucher program, racial integration is significantly greater in participating private schools than it is in Milwaukee's public schools.

Giving education vouchers to low - income parents would be a more effective way to finance the learning of economically and educationally deprived students than the current federal compensatory - education program, which should be terminated, contends Herbert J. Walberg, professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

It is generally thought that targeted school vouchers, i.e., vouchers limited to students from low - income families, have more widespread support than does a universal voucher program, which would allow any family to make use of a government voucher to attend a private school.

What is clear, however, is that both Catholic schools and voucher programs for low - income families show stronger effects on students» educational attainment than on their achievement as measured by standardized tests.

DOJ's attempt to shoehorn its regulation of the voucher program into an entirely unrelated forty - year - old case represents more than ineffective lawyering.

I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.

The greater incidence of tax credit programs could be due to the broader public support for this approach than for vouchers.

Voucher administrators are ironing out such key details as what fees to cover under the program, while making sure that voucher students are charged no more than other pupils.

Melton concluded, «school boards are less concerned about losing funding to the virtual school than to the various voucher programs.»

The current administration has proposed vouchers in its budget, and more than half of states are operating or have proposed voucher programs.

Moreover, schools wishing to admit students selectively rather than accepting all comers may participate in a donation rebate program that generates less revenue than vouchers while also involving less regulation and less interaction with the state.

Based on ratings from the organization GreatSchools, the schools participating in the Louisiana voucher program were not of lesser quality than those that did not participate, though the voucher - accepting schools did charge lower tuition.

Implementing voucher programs incrementally might be more prudent than scaling up quickly.

According to a report by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the private school participation rate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a highly regulated traditional school voucher program, is considerably lower than in other Program (LSP), a highly regulated traditional school voucher program, is considerably lower than in other program, is considerably lower than in other states.

Similarly, in Louisiana, research after the first and second years of the program found voucher students performed worse than their public school counterparts, but after three years, performance was roughly similar across both groups.

In particular, it offers a new corroboration that voucher programs are more heavily regulated than tax credit programs (a difference whose magnitude and statistical significance was previously established here).