Sentences with phrase «used vouchers»

A recent study of that program, released in July by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, found that students who used the vouchers to attend private schools performed worse on standardized tests than similar students who stayed in public schools.

Stephanie Schaefer of Newburgh, Ind., is a stay - at - home mother of six children, four of whom have used vouchers.

It found that students who used vouchers did not see academic gains in their new schools and that they performed worse, on average, than their matched peers in the public schools that they left.

This means that for students who used vouchers to transfer into a private school, both black and white students most often entered a private school in which their race or ethnicity was already over-represented relative to the community.

About 2,800 Indiana students have been approved for the state - funded scholarships, and Attorney General Greg Zoeller said more than 150 of them used the vouchers to enroll in private schools that started last week.

Notably, one public school in Saint Landry Parish (Louisiana calls its counties «parishes») was so high - performing that 20 students used their vouchers there.

A recent study of that program, released in July by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, found that students who used the vouchers to attend private schools actually performed worse on standardized tests than similar students who stayed in public schools.

Students who used their vouchers had graduation rates that were 21 percentage points higher than control - group students.

They are different students that have used vouchers for longer periods.

Students who used their vouchers to switch from public to private schools were more likely to score less well in math, and were about the same in reading.

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.

The latest study — coming from Milwaukee — shows that the 9th graders from low income families who used vouchers to go to Catholic schools were much more likely to complete high school within four years than similar students who were in the city's public schools.

Some parents will use their vouchers unwisely.

Unfortunately, no state is using vouchers now, though Texas — by far the most progressive state in implementing Charitable Choice — is considering it.

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They want those under 55 to have the «freedom» to shop for health insurance when they turn 65, using a voucher to search for an affordable policy.

We are using a voucher we earned for having our wedding at an Intercontinental Hotel and staying at the Intercontinental Barclay in Midtown.

If it was me paying and using a voucher, i'd take the bill over to the till or bar and pay there, rather than doing it at the table.

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But in a large - scale program, we do not know what proportion of the treatment group would actually use a voucher offered to them.

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

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control group.

Fortunately, statistical techniques are available that produce reliable estimates of the average effect of using a voucher compared to not being offered one and the average effect of attending private school in year 3 of the study with or without a voucher compared to not attending private school.

A school voucher program can not force scholarship recipients to use a voucher, nor can it prevent control - group students from attending private schools at their own expense.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

• Among students using the voucher to attend a private elementary school (most students attended Catholic schools), the estimated impact on full - time college enrollment was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 %.

In 2009 - 10, the second year of the voucher program, 1,324 New Orleans students attended 31 private schools using vouchers with a maximum value of over $ 7,000.

In the case of private school choice, you're right that there's a mixed track record, though I would say mostly positive if you look at the full body of evidence about what happens when you allow a student to move from a public school to a private school using a voucher.

The average treatment group member used a voucher for 2.6 years.

A study comparing the performance of students using vouchers to attend private school in Milwaukee with students who attend public schools found that students in both groups are exhibiting similar levels of growth.

If the treatment and control groups are similar at the beginning of the study, any differences between the two groups that emerge over time can be attributed to the programmatic intervention - in the case at hand, using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school.

First, for families that did use a voucher to move to a better neighborhood, subsequent moves back to highly segregated, disadvantaged areas may have either offset initial gains or prevented children from experiencing better schools.

In Louisiana, we have seen many life - saving schools accept students using vouchers, just as we have seen a small number of fiscally or academically irresponsible schools accept such students.

Paul E. Peterson, a prominent voucher researcher and a professor of government at Harvard University, found last year that black students using the vouchers...

Keisha, for example, used her voucher to move to the county, where she has lived for nine years.

Bachelor's degree attainment was 9 percent for the minority members of the control group; it increased to 12 percentage points among those who used a voucher, an increment of 35 percent.

As of 2005, more than one - third of the city's parents chose either to enroll their child in a charter school, use a voucher to go to a private school, or seek out a place in a suburban public school.

Without test results, for instance, we would not know that online and virtual charters appear to be demonstrably harmful to students, as are many Louisiana private schools attended by students using vouchers.

The TOT analysis assumes that winning the lottery had no impact on college enrollment among students who never used a voucher.

That same year 19,852 students eligible for special education took advantage of the opportunity to use a voucher to attend private schools, and 21,493 students received scholarships averaging $ 3,750 from a tax credit program that opened private schooling to students from low - income families.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis of the Milwaukee voucher program concludes that the share of voucher students in a private school is the key to success — that private schools with few students using vouchers do well, while schools with many students using vouchers do poorly.

The table below documents the strong correlations between demographic characteristics and the percentage of students in the school enrolled via a voucher: The greater the share of students in a participating private school using a voucher, the greater the share that are low - income minorities.

The small group of students in the study from other ethnic backgrounds was diverse and less likely to use the voucher when it was offered to them, so we are hesitant to interpret their results.

Bush has said that he supports using vouchers to allow students from failing schools to attend private schools.

As NPR's Cory Turner reports, the study finds that public school students in Indiana who used a voucher to switch to a private school tended to backslide academically after switching schools, but if the students remained in the private school long enough, their performance improved.

After two years, African - American students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school scored 6.3 percentile points higher than African - American students who remained in public schools.

Among students using the voucher to attend a private school, the estimated impact was 8 percentage points, or roughly 31 percent.

To estimate the impact of switching from a public to a private school, we did not simply compare those students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school with all those who did not.

Professor Warren's report, available here, says that Milwaukee students using vouchers were 18 per cent more likely to graduate than MPS students.