Sentences with phrase «to send students to private schools»

The budget offers a state income tax deduction of up to $ 10,000 for sending a student to private school.

This suggests an answer to one of the essential questions in the debate over voucher programs - that is, will sending students to private schools harm their civic education?

Muldrow said she feels compassion for parents who consider sending their students to private schools, but she opposes public money going to religious schools.

Lawmakers pushed for school vouchers, arguing that North Carolina's public schools are failing its low - income and minority students and that families should have the choice — at the expense of taxpayers — to send their students to private schools as an alternative.

Cuomo, in the remaining days of the session, is pressing for one of the items in his education initiatives: a tax credit for big money donors to send students to private schools and pay for extra curricular programs for public schools.

A case filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida challenging the state's use of state - financed vouchers to send students to private schools is currently working its way through the courts.

In the words of the late union leader Al Shanker, widespread voucher programs that send students to private schools «would foster divisions in our society; they would be like setting a time bomb.»

Sending a student to a private school can help that student, but it doesn't add to structural inequality.

The top line takeaway of the story: Nearly 1 billion taxpayer dollars go to school - choice programs that send students to private schools, which could be teaching creationism.

The NSBA opposes the use of public money for vouchers to send students to private schools.

More Americans continue to oppose rather than favor using public funds to send students to private school (52 % to 39 %).

With President Donald Trump pledging to spend federal money to send students to private schools, FutureEd took at look at the private school choice programs now in place at the state level.

The proponents of vouchers needed an appealing argument to overcome resistance to using public funds to send students to private schools.

That latitude could allow the DOJ to seek to challenge distribution of some vouchers if its lawyers determined that sending the students to private schools would disrupt federal efforts to keep the public schools integrated.

Atkinson made it clear that her frustration is not with the parents who want to send their students to a private school or to homeschool their children, but rather with the lack of transparency and accountability associated with vouchers.

If House Bill 1637 is enacted, public funds would be used to send students to private schools — which are only approved by the Department of Education for attendance and not curriculum, without the same accountability standards as the public schools — violating the requirements of state law and the state Constitution.

We have serious concerns about using government funds to send our students to private schools that do not have to adhere to the same standards and accountability as do public and public charter schools.

The plan would stick parents and states with close to 85 percent of the average annual price tag to send these students to private schools.

It would give tax credits to businesses if they donate money to scholarship programs that would send students to private schools.

Another finding: Georgians favor using public funds to send students to private schools, often known as private school voucher programs.

When it comes to supporting vouchers, however, substantially more Americans oppose rather than support using taxpayer funds to send students to private school (52 percent to 39 percent).