Sentences with phrase «use some of your vouchers on»

Remember to use Investigations if you farm — and this would be a good fight to use some of your vouchers on!

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The Christian Right wants public money to be used for private religious education (vouchers), buildings and services to be used for private religious purposes (this article), and they want subsidies in the form of tax breaks, special exemptions of other sorts, and they even want to destroy Aid to Needy Families so they can drive people into seeking help at their private religious «missions» where you are not allowed to eat unless you are a Christian, and so on.

And just as (to use a very coarse figure) the stubs remain in a check - book whenever a check is used, to register the transaction, so these impressions on the transcendent self might constitute so many vouchers of the finite experiences of which the brain had been the mediator; and ultimately they might form that collection within the larger self of memories of our earthly passage, which is all that, since Locke's day, the continuance of our personal identity beyond the grave has by psychology been recognized to mean.

We're big fans of Tesco Clubcard in this house, having used our points in the past to exchange for vouchers for various things, from furniture to days out, so it's great to see that Tesco is doing Tesco Clubcard Boost for the festive season, allowing you to exchange your vouchers for more to spend on selected items.

I was going to email a copy of the voucher that I received in the post, as it clearly promotes 3 different formula brands and states it can be used on any of their products.

Infant milk, as per policy, would be declined at point of purchase if the vouchers were attempted to be used on Infant milk.

As baby will no doubt get a load of presents on their «birthday», a baby shower is a nice opportunity to treat mum, so think about gifts for her at this stage — maybe a hair salon voucher to use after the birth, or a mobile beautician to come and give her a manicure and pedicure at the party or a few weeks before her due date (by which time reaching her own toes will be nigh - on impossible!).

The voucher program began in the 1970s as a means of breaking up pockets of poverty and allowing poor recipients to move closer to quality schools and job opportunities by offering subsidies to be used on the open rental market.

The first consisted of bypassing the banking monopoly on his platform using «cash vouchers,» a tool dating from 1937 that had long been forgotten.

Before you set out on an Investigation to hunt a Black Diablos, consider using one of the Lucky Vouchers to improve your chances of receiving extra materials.

In the event you can't log in each day for the Login Bonus, you can collect five days» worth of Vouchers in one go — so if you can only log in on a Friday, grab your Vouchers and use them up!

I can not vouch for how much of our own brain power we used in this discussion — the percentage might have dropped as the night went on.

In his reevaluation of the Tennessee STAR study, he relies on the exact same research design and uses many of the same statistical procedures that we did in our studies of school vouchers in New York City, Dayton, Ohio, and Washington, D.C.

On February 2, Fordham hosted a discussion on the findings of recent studies of the impact of using vouchers to attend private schooOn February 2, Fordham hosted a discussion on the findings of recent studies of the impact of using vouchers to attend private schooon the findings of recent studies of the impact of using vouchers to attend private school.

Much of the policy discussion focuses on the highly salient fact that these vouchers could be used in private schools, prompting many questions.

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

Justices on the seven - member court also questioned whether public money for K - 12 schools should be used in private schools at all, whether other forms of state aid to religious institutions would be at risk if the vouchers are struck down, and whether...

The authors of the study, Anna J. Egalite and Jonathan N. Mills, used the state's student - level database as well as U.S. Census data to examine the voucher program's impact on integration in the 2012 - 13 school year.

Just imagine if we made better use of all the time, money, and human capital that was spent in these two states on both sides of the voucher debate.

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.

The Commission, chaired by Dr. Paul Hill of the University of Washington, carefully reviewed the research on the impact of school choice on student achievement and included in its report the following statement: «The most rigorous school choice evaluations that used random assignment... found that academic gains from vouchers were largely limited to the African - American students in their studies.»

This could be considered the «upper bound» on the impact of a national voucher program using currently - operating schools.

Using a similar definition of scholarship use (receipt of any scholarship assistance), the evaluators of the federally funded Washington, D.C., voucher program estimated a positive impact of 21 percent on the high - school graduation rates of study participants, 88 percent of whom were African Americans.

Proposed legislation, which initially prohibited for - profit education organizations, now would require that such entities make available to the public information on their profitability as well as their use of voucher funds.

The justices agreed to review a Court of Appeals ruling that the voucher programs violated a state constitutional ban on using public money to help private and religious schools.

Using an experimental design, the study found no clear effects of using a voucher to enroll in a private school on students» test scores four years lUsing an experimental design, the study found no clear effects of using a voucher to enroll in a private school on students» test scores four years lusing a voucher to enroll in a private school on students» test scores four years later.

Matthew Chingos and I have just released a study that for the first time makes use of data from a randomized field trial to identify the impact of school vouchers on college enrollments.

I was no less enthusiastic than those standing on the podium as this was for me an opportunity to evaluate for the first time a school voucher initiative by means of a randomized field trial, the gold standard for evaluating the effectiveness of a program, the same design as the pill - placebo design used in medical research to ascertain whether pills are effective.

The recently released study of the program examines its effects on test scores for students that have used vouchers for one, two, three, or four years.

Four recent rigorous studies — in the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio — used different research designs and reached the same result: on average, students that use vouchers to attend private schools do less well on tests than similar students that do not attend private schools.

«Rather than using taxpayer dollars to provide vouchers to a few, we must focus our resources and efforts on concrete reforms that make our public schools better for all of the District's schoolchildren.»

In the words of Eleanor Holmes Norton (D), Washington's elected, nonvoting delegate to the House of Representatives, «[Republicans] used our denial of representation in the Senate, where vouchers would have been disposed of as a matter of senatorial courtesy, to force vouchers on the city.»

We use the state's student - level database to examine the voucher program's impact on integration in the 2012 — 13 school year, the program's initial year of statewide operation.

Our estimates of the effects of voucher use after three and four years are based on a relatively small number of students: fewer than 200 in year four, as compared to roughly 3,000 in year one and 1,700 in year two.

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.

In contrast, my interpretation — that there is no statistically significant effect — places equal weight on all students observed using a voucher to enroll in a private school, including all studies and students regardless of how long they were followed, therefore capturing all the positive and negative effects at work.

As part of School Choice week and as part of their ongoing efforts to push back on pro-voucher messaging, NCPE has assembled a set of anti - voucher / pro-public school resources that you can use:

But the size of that margin depends on how the question is posed, and intentions to use a voucher system depend on how much tuition it covers.

«It's almost like someone flipped a switch overnight and so many states now are considering either allowing us to open private virtual schools» or lifting the cap on the number of students who can use vouchers to attend K12 Inc.'s schools.

They cherry - picked (if you'll pardon the expression) their method to ensure that the positive results for vouchers wouldn't achieve statistical significance, as was established pretty convincingly not only by Howell and Peterson's devastating response in Ed Next but also by Caroline Hoxby's observations in an NBER paper on their manipulation of the definition of race — Krueger and Zhu use a definition of race that is not currently used by the Census, NCES, or anyone else I know of, and that doesn't accurately reflect the way children really identify themselves by race — and they applied it selectively to only some of the students in the data set, not all of them.

Teske and Schneider note that the existing empirical work on school vouchers is quite positive on a variety of issues: academic considerations appear paramount when parents choose schools; voucher recipients are more satisfied with their schools than their peers within public schools; and vouchers lead to «clear performance gains for some groups of students using the vouchers, particularly blacks, compared with the control group.»

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.

I have written about voucher results from Louisiana extensively before, especially the large negative effects that the state's program, and a similar program in Ohio, have had on the achievement of students using them to move to private schools.

And, the final US Department of Education report on the Washington, DC voucher program showed that a main reason why students didn't use a voucher offered to them was that they were unable to find a participating school with services for their learning or physical disability or other special needs.

In 1965, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District in Virginia found in Griffin v. State Board of Education that vouchers from the state's tuition grant program could not lawfully be used to fund schools that discriminate based on race.27 While not citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a legal basis for its ruling, the court nonetheless relied on the law's definition of a public school — any institution that was «operated wholly or predominantly from or through the use of governmental funds or property.»

The most startling of these reports indicated that students who used school vouchers performed much worse on standardized tests than those who remained in traditional public schools.

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 use of a voucher had no statistically significant impact on overall student achievement in math or reading.

In this opinion, the New Mexico Attorney General declared that a voucher program under which the parents of exceptional children whose needs were not being met by the public schools could use the funds the school district would otherwise have spent on the children to purchase special education at private, nonsectarian institutions would be consistent with the New Mexico Constitution.