Sentences with phrase «voucher plan»

«When I first read about the Twins» plan, I started to think about how lawyers could use a similar voucher plan in their offices.

In 2006, as governor, Jeb Bush pushed through a universal voucher plan, which was subsequently ruled unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court.

(The exception here is again Florida, where the state's main STO serves a role similar to the role played by the state in a conventional voucher plan.)

While the new law does offer additional funding for Chicago Public Schools, the Chicago Teachers Union is assailing the voucher plan, which would offer individuals and businesses a 75 - cent tax credit for each dollar donated to a «scholarship» fund.

A passel of interlinked right - wing groups that fund and participate in ALEC, including the Koch's astroturf group, Americans for Prosperity, the DeVos family's American Federation for Children, and the State Policy Network's Goldwater Institute joined the push to expand the state's voucher program (even though its small scale voucher plan was not popular with parents and not yet full.)

Lawmakers this year also passed a law creating what will likely become the nation's most expansive private school voucher plan.

While a school voucher proposal is likely, critics say that DeVos» voucher plan would exacerbate educational inequality, that «voucher programs do not work to improve student achievement», and «voucher programs and charter school expansion drain both money and social capital from the traditional public schools, creating even more of an imbalanced, two - tiered system.»

Krueger's study of the data showed no academic gains for African - American students in the voucher plan, reported Education Week.

Inbetween, it offers a template for a $ 15 - billion - a-year national voucher plan that «will frankly discriminate in favor of poor children.»

``... he waded in with a controversial new voucher plan that would give parents of disadvantaged children funds that could be spent in private and parochial as well as public schools.»

Senator Brian Kelsey of Shelby County is pushing a voucher plan that is essentially a pilot program that would apply to Shelby County only.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants his education tax credit, which critics have identified as a backdoor voucher plan for private and parochial schools, and he wants it so badly that sources in Albany are saying he is trying to entice hesitant Democrats by tying strengthened rent regulations to passage of the credit.

Univ. of Arkansas project's analysis of Milwaukee voucher plan accurately summarizes its earlier, unpublished findings, but continues to ignore broader research that challenges them

The author of the 1990 voucher bill, Annette «Polly» Williams, an African - American Democratic member of the Wisconsin Assembly, saw her voucher plan as a way of supporting African - American community schools and weakening the hold that white - dominated institutions had over the education of black children.

Then there are the consequences of the federal voucher plan for global warming — I actually do have a story about that — but let me stop there...

The Black Alliance for Educational Options, for example, has long been a strong defender of the New Orleans voucher plan and has helped Jindal craft the proposed expansion.

But I know an unfair scheme when I see one, and Nevada's voucher plan will decimate our public schools and hurt our children.

Several of our findings suggest that national democratic culture mediated the way that the voucher plan was taken up in the Swedish school system.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

While public charter schools with strong accountability systems can provide excellent opportunities for children, this voucher plan could leave many students vulnerable to discriminatory practices, remove critical civil rights protections, and drain funding from public schools.

Like the House proposal, students with disabilities would be able to take advantage of a separate existing voucher plan to use up to $ 8,000 state funds annually to attend private schools — that's up from $ 6,000 annually in prior years.

Following this adventure in vouchers, the Senate Education Committee and a House subcommittee approved a voucher plan that would allow any Tennessee student with an IEP — Individualized Education Plan — to receive vouchers.

«Wisconsin now has more than 32,000 students statewide enrolled in its voucher plan, even though approximately three - quarters of the new students receiving that public money were already attending private schools.

Do you believe that even if a limited voucher plan passes, the ultimate goal is statewide vouchers with broad qualifications?

In an effort to make the plan more palatable to Wisconsin legislators, Thompson reduced the scope of his statewide voucher plan for 1989 to include only non-sectarian schools in Milwaukee County.

Furthermore, any new law will undoubtedly be challenged in court, making it improbable that any voucher plan will be implemented by fall 2005, if at all.

''... Largely unknown outside of Michigan political and philanthropic circles, her appointment signals that Trump intends to make school choice and a voucher plan for low - income families a centerpiece of his education agenda.

The best - known form of public - private partnership in schooling is a voucher plan that includes private schools.

Hailing what he sees as California's bounce back from the brink of economic oblivion, an upbeat Gov. Pete Wilson proposed last week that the state pay for several new education programs, including a school - voucher plan.

The Governor favors such vouchers, but he would prefer an unequivocal show of support on the issue from the Republican - controlled legislature before committing himself to a session devoted to the voucher plan and other education proposals, observers said.

U.S. District Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. of Cleveland ruled Dec. 20 that the city's state - enacted voucher plan violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on a government establishment of religion.

Howard Fuller, an architect of Milwaukee's school - voucher plan and the godfather of the school - choice movement, has wryly observed, «I think that any honest assessment would have to say that there hasn't been the deep, wholesale improvement in [Milwaukee Public Schools] that we would have thought.»

At a July 21 meeting at Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia, Mr. Bush conceded that the Congress is unlikely to approve his proposal for an experimental $ 500 - million voucher plan.

But $ 767 million of that total was proposed for a new private - school voucher plan and other parts of the Administration's America 2000 education strategy — which have already been largely rejected by the Congress.

Louisiana appears on track to enact a private - school - voucher plan for New Orleans that borrows from choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing public schools.

Striking down the state's voucher plan for contravening the state constitution's requirement of a «uniform» public education system, the court opened the door to challenges to the state's 350 charters, which, by definition, are not uniform.

The Supplemental Educational Services section of NCLB was a compromise agreed to by Congress when the voucher plan failed.

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

A similar voucher plan was one of the first things Republicans ceded in 2001 when negotiations with Democrats over the No Child Left Behind Act began.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

Those in favor of a universal voucher plan make up 44 percent, hardly different from 43 percent one year previously, a shift well within the margin of error.

Critics say seniors lose under the voucher plan because private insurance will cost more than Medicare.

Schneiderman says can't move east end sex offenders on his own, but he blocked voucher plan that would have had them moved 2 years ago.»

In a voucher plan, state educational authorities will define minimum requirements for schools eligible to receive vouchers.

Voucher programs that affect only a fraction of students do leave others behind, but that is not an argument against vouchers; it is an argument in favor of a voucher plan that is comprehensive.

Present evidence suggests that a voucher plan would probably be better for poor and minority children, increase integration, strengthen the family, better respect societal pluralism, renew moral values and cost less.

Alongside the best public school reform proposals outlined above, as a nation we should invest equal resources in testing a voucher plan.

In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

Or conditioning it on states implementing school voucher plans.

«First - generation» choice programs such as open enrollment, magnet and charter schools, and voucher plans have indeed increased the number of schooling options available.