Sentences with phrase «using voucher schemes»

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Private schools that elected to participate by accepting vouchers as payment also had to administer the Louisiana state assessment to voucher - receiving students and were graded by the state using the same A-F scheme the state used for its public schools.

DeVos has spent most of her life using her billions to privatize public education through charter and voucher school schemes.

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

More than 90 percent of the private schools who receive taxpayer funds through the voucher scheme are religious and the bulk of those are conservative fundamentalist schools, many of which use the A-Beka Book curriculum and books from Bob Jones University Press.

It doesn't matter how their proponents try to disguise them — education savings accounts, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships — vouchers are destructive and misguided schemes that use taxpayer dollars to «experiment with our children's education without any evidence of real, lasting positive results,» says NEA President Eskelsen García.

The scheme would funnel public funds out of public schools and into private schools by allowing parents to use a voucher to pay for some or all of their child's private school tuition.

The goal of creating the voucher scheme last session was not to see how a limited number of students using a limited amount of public dollars would fare in the voucher program.

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

For example, ALEC is a big supporter of vouchers and tuition tax credit schemes which use public dollars to subsidize tuition at private or religious schools.

When programs are proposed in state legislatures, teachers» unions will inevitably frame the proposal as a «voucher scheme» and local media are likely to use «school vouchers» in headlines.

Or will that money be used to correct the currently unconstitutional funding mechanism for Adam Laxalt and Brian Sandoval's school voucher scheme or Education Savings Accounts?

Talking Points for Local School Board Members Use these talking points to let your Senators and Representatives know that you oppose draining critical resources from public schools to fund school vouchers and other voucher schemes:

Sign up for loyalty schemes and start using them, make use of vouchers and keep your eyes open for free and cheap entertainment.

Sterilisation as a means of controlling the community cat population has been carried out by members of the public using their own resources, with support from the Cat Welfare Society's reimbursement scheme and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's sterilisation voucher scheme for the past 7 years.

Under its new «money - focused» scheme, South African Airways is really pushing members to use miles for non-airline awards, such as car rentals, spa vouchers and retail products.

The regulator, which had examined 34 charges on a variety of aspects related to business, said the company had violated many norms, including not settling «huge» number of claims in respect of the group insurance schemes, continuation of corporate agency even after expiry of licence, use of unlicensed entities for procuring business and distribution of gift vouchers procured from Big Bazar, one of the group companies.