Sentences with phrase «voucher expansion bill»

An Assembly voucher expansion bill, this time for «gifted and talented» students, is up for a public hearing Thursday, while the Senate version was introduced late last week and referred to its Education Committee.

«This year, a massive voucher expansion bill was filed seeking a limit of close to the «B» word — nearly a billion dollars.»

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While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

But while Republican leadership had previously said an unlimited expansion of the voucher program was out of the question without an accountability bill, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R - Rochester, indicated last week that the expansion is still on the table.

Other hot - button issues likely to come up during this session include right - to - work legislation, a rewrite of campaign finance laws, changes to the state Government Accountability Board and John Doe investigations, expansion of the statewide voucher program and a school accountability bill.

«We've got one 46 - page bill,» he said of the multiprovision bill on charter school and voucher expansion.

While it ends a Pre-K waiting list, which is good, it's unfortunate that this class size bill had to be politicized with other controversial legislation around the gas pipeline, state board of elections and expansion of a new private school voucher scheme.»

Just yesterday in the Indiana legislature, the House Education committee voted along party lines to expand pre-school education opportunities but also forwarded language in the same bill to allow for the largest expansion of vouchers in the USA beginning with pre-school students and their siblings.

That means it's possible that some number of the remaining 14,500 students don't currently qualify for vouchers, but still attend F schools — that's the group that represents an expansion under the Senate bill.

Gardner joined other parents and a vocal group of educators before the Wisconsin Assembly Education Committee in January to speak out against AB1, a bill proposed by state lawmakers that would give significantly more funding to charter schools and green light voucher expansion.

A Republican Assembly leader now plans to add to the state budget bill an expansion of Milwaukee's voucher program to other school districts, potentially giving more families in cities such as Madison access to private and religious schools.

Earlier this month the Assembly passed a bill that, for now, stopped the further expansion of Wisconsin's school voucher program.