Sentences with phrase «to transfer to a private school»

Students transferring to private schools using publicly funded vouchers saved participating states more than $ 1.7 billion over a 20 - year period.

The bill would require taxpayers to be informed about how much of their money is being transferred to private schools through the voucher program.

Establish in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

Washington — About 5 percent of the students currently attending public schools would be likely to transfer to private schools if a tuition tax credit of $ 250 were available, according to a Congressionally mandated study of private schools.

Many former public school students have seen their test scores drop, not improve, after transferring to private schools with Indiana's tuition assistance.

A 2015 study of Indiana's voucher program found students who transferred to private schools using a voucher experienced dramatic losses in mathematics achievement and no improvement in reading.

However, the DOJ's procedural case is weak — the federal desegregation orders are silent on transfers to private schools — and its substantive case is practically nonexistent.

Furthermore, by dismantling the Title I funding formula, not only would public schools and students in poverty be harmed, but portability would also allow the dollars to be more easily transferred to private schools to either create a voucher or to be combined with existing state voucher programs.

Apparently last spring one attended private school and one attended a public School in Hartford but later transferred to the private school

He noted that Cantor had originally wanted to allow studentes to transfer to private schools as well and called the policy an «imitation voucher.»

In 2016, researchers published a major study of Louisiana's voucher program showing that elementary school students who started at the 50th percentile in math and then used a voucher to transfer to a private school dropped, on average, to the 26th percentile in just one school year.

Created in 2008 and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

By proposing to serve a targeted group of students, neo-vouchers open the door for public dollars to be transferred to private schools with no federal mandates to serve children with disabilities and no accountability for their success (Müller & Ahearn, 2007).

As a 10th - grader he transferred to a private school 90 miles from home, causing bitter disappointment in Pierson.

For example, high - achieving students in a school that changed to an earlier start time might transfer to private schools.

The A + program offers all the students in schools that chronically fail the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) the opportunity to use a voucher to transfer to a private school.

The discussion often revolves around the question of participant effects — whether students are better off when they use a voucher to transfer to a private school.

Allowing Title I funds to be transferred to private schools would create burdensome administrative and accounting problems for local school districts.

States could apply for funding to provide scholarships to students from low income families that could be used to transfer to a private school.

So far, in addition to signing up the Network for Educational Opportunity («NEO»), we are representing Shalimar Encarnacion, who applied to NEO for scholarships for her two children with disabilities, whom she wants to transfer to a private school, as well as Heidi and Geoff Boffito, who need a scholarship to keep their oldest son in his private school.

Vouchers called «Hope Scholarships» that would allow students who are bullied or suffer other abuses in public schools to receive voucher - like scholarships to transfer to private schools.

TRANSLATED: The most controversial new proposal would enable students at failing schools to receive a voucher to transfer to a private school.

Curry started all of her children in public school, but after she became dissatisfied with the education and treatment her children were receiving, she transferred them to private schools in Durham, and then to CFC Academy when they moved to Creedmoor.

Public elementary school students who started at the 50th percentile in math and then used a voucher to transfer to a private school dropped, on average, to the 26th percentile in just one school year.

Sure, you can spend 4 weeks on Climate Change, wrestle with parents and the school board (and win), but see a bunch of «smart kids» to transfer to private school, see your remaining students fail the standardized testing in science because all they «really» know has to do with climate change (or evolution), and then you're out of a job anyway for poor performance with no one to blame but yourself.