Sentences with phrase «use federal vouchers»

(A proposal to let low - income students nationwide use federal vouchers toward private school tuition was defeated in the Senate in July.)

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Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build new public schools or using public tax dollars to pay for private school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.

Education lobbyists say HR 2086 would conceivably allow school districts to use federal dollars to pay for vouchers for private school tuition or to pay private companies to provide school services.

A recent federal study of the much - watched voucher program in Washington, D.C., for example, showed that using a voucher boosted a student's chances of graduating from high school.

Governor Romney has made the expansion of school choice for disadvantaged students central to his campaign, calling for the expansion of the Washington, D.C., voucher program and for allowing low - income and special education students to use federal funds to enroll in private schools.

This approach has several advantages over vouchers funded out of the federal budget: no existing federal money expected by school districts would be affected; no state money would be involved, thus avoiding legal conflicts with constitutional provisions that bar the use of state and local money for religious schools in 37 states; and, as a pure federal initiative, state laws and tax codes would remain unaffected.

The bill would give states the option of using the funds now distributed through a host of federal programs — amounting to about $ 24 billion a year on the whole — as a single block grant to states for public and private school vouchers.

The death of a small federal school - integration initiative is connected to a much larger concern that DeVos's primary education - reform idea — using public money for private school vouchers — will produce poor academic results for students, and Balkanize students by religion, race, and class.

As in Washington, D.C., where the federal government agreed to send $ 2 in aid to the public schools for every $ 1 it spent on the voucher program, Spence found it politically necessary to continue sending 15 to 25 percent of the per - pupil funding to the school districts for each student who chose to use a voucher.

In early 2014, Alexander introduced a bill in the Senate that would redirect $ 24 billion of federal education funding and incentivize states to use the money to fund 11 million school vouchers for students in poverty.

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.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for a national voucher program, including any special education vouchers for military children and / or specific subgroups of students.

Related: OPINION: Those who wanted federal power over schools now fear Betsy DeVos might use it to foster choice and voucher plans

The GI Bill, Pell Grants, student loans, both Presidents Bush, President Trump, the 25 states that allow parents to choose among public and private schools, Congress with its passage of the Washington, D.C. voucher program, 45 U.S. senators who voted in 2015 to allow states to use existing federal dollars for vouchers, Betsy DeVos — or her senate critics?

Scenario # 1: DeVos moves quickly to implement President - Elect Trump's plan to use $ 20 billion of federal funds for block grants to states to support vouchers for poor children to attend private schools.

However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.

A State should not be able to use «choice» to skirt their responsibility to provide a free, appropriate public education to students with disabilities and federal funds should not be made available for vouchers unless all student civil rights are fully upheld.»

A large - scale federal voucher program (Trump uses $ 20 billion as the figure) could go directly to schools and / or only work with states or districts if there are supportive voucher, tax credit, or charter programs.

The DOJ eventually backpedaled somewhat, dropping its demand that it have authority to approve or deny every single voucher, but a federal judge ruled that the state must fork over data about the race of participating students, which the DOJ could use in future challenges.

Coupled with the Obama administration's Race to the Top program, its disregard for the constraints negotiated into NCLB, its expansive and troubling use of NCLB waivers, its aggressive efforts to dictate school discipline and to attack state - based voucher programs, and much else, there is cause to question how much restraint federal officials will show going forward.

This paper focuses on the most recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which is the only voucher program funded and authorized by federal law and uses a randomized control trial design.29

The «Trust's policies and procedures lack sufficient detail to ensure each participating school in [the voucher program] has the financial systems, controls, policies, and procedures in place to ensure federal funds are used according to the law» and has no means of verifying the financial statements of participating private schools.

NSBA opposes private school vouchers and urges Congress to reject using any federal funds for voucher programs, including any special education vouchers for military children or specific subgroups of students.

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