Sentences with phrase «than vouchers because»

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

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He said the most people who are denied boarding are happy about it because «the person who paid $ 200 is usually happy because they got a voucher» worth more than what they paid for their ticket.»

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.

Critics say seniors lose under the voucher plan because private insurance will cost more than Medicare.

In his activity, the entrepreneur nevertheless continued to use the cash vouchers rather than this new standing, because he was not obliged to and because it was more restrictive than the cash vouchers.

Because parish members receive a discount on their tuition, a voucher student whose family belongs to the church nets the school $ 1,700 less in state funds than if they were nonmembers.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

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).

Because they were more interested in promoting equality of opportunity than simply consumer choice, sociologist Christopher Jencks and law professors John Coons and Stephen Sugarman proposed placing some constraints on how vouchers could be used: Disadvantaged students would receive larger vouchers, and regulations would prevent any school that accepted vouchers from imposing tuition and fees beyond the value of the voucher.

Rather, voucher proponents have seized on this population because they are more sympathetic beneficiaries than poor and minority youngsters.

They save taxpayers money, because the average voucher ends up costing less than educating the same student in public school and because the voucher curbs public - school financial incentives to inflate the special education rolls.

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.

Because the per - pupil voucher amount our students received from the state had not increased in more than five years, we had no reserves to fall back on, and no endowment.

Because the maximum value of the voucher ($ 6,442) is substantially less than what the government pays to educate students in MPS, the state saves over $ 50 million per year from the operation of the program.

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.

What's more, because private management could be introduced directly into any of the nation's 80,000 public schools, private management might improve the quality of schools more rapidly than would vouchers for private schools, which must change the public schools indirectly through competition.

It found that, because they got a voucher, parents «were more likely to be actively involved in their children's schools, parent - teacher organizations, and other education groups» than parents of students at traditional district schools with a similar demographic profile.

She chose it because it was across the street from the Catholic school for boys that her son attends, also with a voucher, and it seemed better than a neighborhood public school that has failed for years to meet achievement targets.

Talbot said the measure ultimately will save the state money, because the voucher amounts will be less than what state and local government now spends on a child in public schools.

The annual tuition of St. Jude parish school would rise from $ 3,000 a student to $ 4,300 a student because the voucher limit was much higher than the present tuition amount.

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.

Targeted school choice programs are inferior to broadbased ones because they do not build the most politically effective constituency for school choice but, because targeted tax credits are self - reinforcing, they are much more likely than targeted vouchers to survive and thrive.

It then compared the averages of private and religious voucher schools, charter schools and public schools and encouraged readers to draw the conclusion that voucher and charter schools are better than Milwaukee's public schools because their averaged scores are better.

Because of this, there are currently more than 1,500 children who use a voucher to attend 48 different private schools in the city.

Economists from MIT and Harvard, among other co-authors, found in one paper that voucher winners «were about 10 percentage points more likely than (lottery) losers to have completed eighth grade, primarily because they repeated fewer grades,» and that «on average, lottery winners scored about 0.2 standard deviations higher than losers.»

He said a side effect of this proposal, if passed, could be an incentive for private voucher schools to turn into independent charter schools because the per - student funding is more than the per - student funding for voucher schools, which is about $ 7,200 for students in elementary and middle schools.

$ 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.

More than half of the voucher students tested below the national average in reading, math and language and overall performed below their peers in public schools though it is not a precise comparison because the law allows voucher schools to select their own national tests.

And that's only because we found affordable flights for $ 200 or less, so it made sense to pay for them rather than use miles, vouchers, etc...

It's a fact that Bob has his foot in the door at a faster pace than you because John can vouch for Bob.