The maximum
voucher amount allowed through the Opportunity Scholarships program is $ 4,200.
Not exact matches
At the same time, Trump is seeking to shift a historic
amount of money — $ 1.4 billion — into charter schools, private - school
vouchers and Title I «portability,» a controversial form of choice that would
allow $ 1 billion in federal funds to follow poor children to the public school of their choice.
«Given the massive
amount of money funneled from the pro-school privatization lobby to Republican legislators, l am afraid that we will see yet another effort to decimate our local public schools and
allow unaccountable private
voucher schools to play by a substandard set of rules.»
The scaled - back version of the bill that passed Thursday would
allow school districts to retain as much funding in state aid and property tax levy authority per pupil as the
amount of each student's private school
voucher.
«Many existing
voucher programs are limited in the number and type of students they're
allowed to serve and the
amount of choice they're
allowed to offer.
The Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia program
allows students with a diagnosis of dyslexia to receive a
voucher in an
amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $ 5,000.
This program
allows students with a diagnosis of dyslexia to receive a
voucher in an
amount equal to the Mississippi Adequate Education Program base student cost, which is around $ 5,000.
During the debate, Rep. Joel Kitchens (R - Sturgeon Bay) announced his intention to introduce a floor amendment next Tuesday that would
allow school districts to increase revenue limits by an
amount equal to the
voucher aid reduction for the first two years.
That
allows tax credits to assist many more families than
voucher programs with the same
amount of funding - and tax credits build a larger customer base, which helps politically.
You see, we receive the maximum
amount the
voucher program
allows for our family, which is $ 4,500 — nearly $ 2,000 less than what our local school district receives per child from the state.