Sentences with phrase «through voucher systems»

«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.

An alternative bill would not have exacted such a promise and would have proceeded through a voucher system.

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That means branded retail gift cards, but also top - ups for mobile prepaid customers, online payment vouchers and, through its Loadhub network at 6,000 Canada Post locations, a system for people to convert real cash into a digital form.

Much of what the authors argue for here makes great sense» for example, injecting «a healthy dose of competition» into our educational system through the use of educational vouchers.

By law all children have the right to benefit from certain federal programs, but the voucher system — through which funds can be spent to benefit the school, not just the student — is both unconstitutional and poor public policy.

Maybe we need to rethink the voucher system so that we can send our tax dollars to schools whose administrators prove their worthiness through test results of the kids.

«By the end of December, coming to January this year, that is last month, we mopped up more than N2.2 trn which we have used through the bureaucracy system to raise vouchers and sign cheques so that they don't go into the next budget.»

Alongside childcare vouchers and TFC, childcare help is also provided through the tax credit and universal credit systems.

In a range of proposals designed to show the coalition has not run out of ideas, Cameron and Clegg will set out plans for a flat - rate childcare voucher paid through the tax system, likely to be worth up to # 2,000 per child; a cap on the cost of social care; new help with mortgages; and transport investment through road tolls.

A third possible direction goes back to diversity and individualism — through privatization, including such mechanisms as tuition tax credits, vouchers (enabling students to opt out of the public school system), and home schooling.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

Even where special education vouchers are adopted, families can always choose to pursue their right to appropriate services in public schools through the legal system.

This report also supports desegregation but it recognizes that desegregation is best achieved through a fully developed system of choice and competition that includes charter schools, school vouchers, and a well developed system of choice among traditional public schools.

EN: If the government is to finance early childhood education, how should the funds be distributed: through the school system, by giving tax credits or vouchers to parents, or by some other mechanism?

If choice through vouchers can create conditions that promote academic achievement, and if it can put political pressure on what are often intractable urban school systems, it merits serious consideration.

If the government is to finance early childhood education, how should the funds be distributed: through the school system, by giving tax credits or vouchers to parents, or by some other mechanism?

The principle of education for the common good is more important now than ever, as school systems across the United States become more plural through charter schools, tax credits, vouchers, and education savings accounts.

Among the pluses: Florida's excellent accountability system for schools; a longitudinal database containing student data from pre-K through age 20; a strong charter - school law; special - education vouchers; and a tax - credit program for corporate donations to private - school scholarship programs.

Through a voucher program, a private school can legally receive government aid and keep its religious aspects while avoiding the state's accountability system.

We oppose the Bush Administration's efforts to bankrupt the public school system — the bedrock of democracy — through private - school vouchers.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

The bill creates a statewide voucher system in New Hampshire through the authorization of education freedom savings accounts.

In light of the progress on ESEA reauthorization, NSBA appreciates Members of Congress for their diligence, and will continue to call on them to pass a final bill that strengthens local governance, invests in Title I programs, and prevents federal funds from being used to, directly or indirectly, fund private education through tax credits, vouchers, or a choice system.

Under the worst - case scenario, it will direct funds away from public school systems, either through a new formula that advantages states that establish voucher programs or by draining students and their accompanying per - pupil allocation away from public schools.

The government should introduce a means tested voucher system, as part of the pupil premium, through which lower income families could purchase additional educational support for pupils, such as extra-curricular tuition.

North Carolina is in the thick of the school voucher debate, with two bills moving through the General Assembly now that would siphon at least $ 90 million out of the public school system and into voucher programs intended for low - income and disabled students.

Bush is a major figure in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.

SB 193, creating a statewide voucher system through education freedom savings accounts.

• Empowerment Through School Choice — The centerpiece of delivery system reform must be comprehensive, child - centered school choice in all of its manifestations, including vouchers, charters, online, home schooling, etc., beginning with aggressive expansion of open enrollment charter authority and voucherizing special education and students in failing schools.

Finally, the state should consider how private voucher schools might become accredited, either through a respected national accrediting agency or by developing its own system of accreditation.

These privatization efforts will probably include education savings accounts and school vouchers, either paid for directly with tax dollars or funded through a system of tax credits.

Friedman and his colleagues envisioned a system in which schools helped to fulfill «the ultimate objective of society» by «maximiz [ing] the freedom of the individual or the family» through subsidized vouchers, which would allow underprivileged students to enroll in private institutions (Ravitch 2010).

«The 51 - to - 50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice through charter schools and vouchers, but has limited experience with the public school system — to be steward of the nation's schools.

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Instead, Friedman said, the politically feasible way of moving towards an entirely private educational system is through vouchers:

Previously, voters who did not have the ID required by Elections Canada could still vote through the «vouching system,» where a voter could have someone in their polling division vouch for their identity in order for them to cast a ballot.

Families in treatment group 2 (n = 90) were provided the screening services offered those in treatment group 1 in addition to free transportation (using a taxicab voucher system) for prenatal and well - child care through the child's second birthday.