Sentences with phrase «than vouchers»

The voucher for a student from a disadvantaged background is worth 50 percent more than a voucher for a student from a middle - income or higher background.

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.

This is why teacher reform is now more radioactive than vouchers: Rather than taking a long, winding road, it attacks the core problem head - on.

Even opponents of school choice agree that tax credits are more viable than vouchers.

Even if sanctions other than vouchers inspired school improvement, my study's findings would not be undermined in the least.

Though they have been passed more recently, targeted education tax credit programs have expanded much more rapidly and cover far more children than vouchers do.

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.

Thus, public school students might have been encouraged to try harder on these tests than their voucher counterparts.

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

People working on the school choice issue also agree that tax credits are more legally viable than vouchers.

As their numbers grow, charters are beginning to disrupt the status quo more than vouchers are.

We should focus on these proven strategies rather than voucher schemes that offer parents empty promises while asking them to give up federally protected civil rights.»

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

Education savings accounts were more popular than vouchers (without a prompt) but not as popular as tax - credit scholarships, with 56 percent supporting them and 34 percent opposing them.

Moreover, because ESA funds can be spent at multiple education vendors or saved for later, ESAs expand access to an even wider spectrum of educational options than vouchers without significantly fueling tuition inflation or causing shortages.

Of course, Wisconsin's public schools spend way more per student than vouchers cost, or about $ 10,000.

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Aside from Florida — which the Friedman report noted was an outlier — states» STC laws tend to impose significantly fewer regulations on private schools than voucher laws.

$ 14,183 — Cost per student in the Milwaukee Public Schools, which is higher than voucher schools partly because they serve more students with disabilities and administrative costs are higher.

Because they face no competition from vouchers and have lower chances of receiving an F grade, sometimes - D schools are expected to make less improvement than the voucher - eligible, voucher - threatened, and always - D schools.

(More supported «universal» vouchers than vouchers for only the poor, though support fell precipitously when it was made clear that vouchers involve the expenditure of government funds.)

ESAs are not the equivalent of cash because the funds are restricted to approved categories of educational expenses, but they do provide families with much greater flexibility in how to spend (or save) the funds than vouchers do.

The forecasts of widespread innovation brought on by competition and of cultural balkanization by privatization will have to accommodate an empirical reality that is considerably more nuanced than vouchers» most ardent advocates and critics are currently willing to admit.

These tax credit programs, sometimes referred to as «neovouchers» or back - door vouchers, have received less public scrutiny than vouchers, even as they currently comprise the largest private school choice programs in numbers of students.

A 2016 Government Accountability Office report found that 13 out of 22 voucher programs it surveyed did not place a cap on private school tuition, allowing private schools to charge more than the voucher award.

This is likely because most voucher schools charge tuition rates higher than the cap on voucher awards: during the 2011 - 2012 school year, 64 % of participating voucher schools charged higher tuition rates than the voucher cap.

The legislature also holds Indiana public school systems at a higher bar than the voucher - funded private and parochial schools.

Tax credits are more legally viable than vouchers because they are private funds and vouchers are government funds.

Opportunity Scholarships are much more restrictive than vouchers and why privatization proponents were devastated when ESAs were killed.

On the contrary, the Duke report noted, comparable students who remain in public schools are scoring better than voucher students on national tests.

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

Tax - credit programs have proven far less politically radioactive than vouchers, though they accomplish the same objectives.

Tax credit programs that help defray the cost of a private education are a less publicized, but more widely available, form of school choice than vouchers.

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.

They want the media talking about anything other than vouchers, charters, and the federal funding of them through ESSA (the Every Student Succeeds Act) and tax laws.

Education tax credits are more popular than vouchers.

Programs like Arizona's provide parents with more options than vouchers.

Noting that I had raised concerns about the unintended consequences of prohibiting voucher schools from setting their own admissions criteria or charging more than the voucher, Kingsland wrote:

Now some advocates of parental choice, notably Adam Schaeffer of the Cato Institute, are arguing that the way to get to parental choice in education is through tax credits rather than vouchers.

This same caucus split 50 - 50 when it came to expanding the Sunshine State's private school choice program, demonstrating that teacher reform is now more radioactive than vouchers.

In Chile, students are found in four types of schools: elite schools that do not accept vouchers and charge considerably more than the voucher; for - profit voucher schools; nonprofit (usually religious) voucher schools; and municipal schools.

SGOs receiving the brunt of the regulatory burden for the tax - credit scholarship programs may contribute to why they were less negative, on average, than voucher programs.

And it points the way to a solution to the problem of market - suffocating regulation under school choice programs: pursue school choice through education tax credits rather than vouchers or charter schools.

Education tax credits unify the largest possible coalition while inspiring no more resistance - and possibly less - than vouchers.