Sentences with phrase «voucher programs»

The specific exclusion of religious schools from state voucher programs, as in Vermont, raises federal questions beyond the Establishment Clause.

Yet in the same year the EWA guide was published, Gerard Robinson, then a senior fellow at Marquette University's Institute for the Transformation of Learning, summarized 42 studies from more than a decade of research involving educational voucher programs.

That is no longer so, perhaps in part because targeted voucher programs remain small, fragile, and underfunded.

Even so, votes cast by Democratic elected officials in support of voucher programs are rare.

The development of voucher programs in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Florida has fostered a serious national debate over a question that once could be discussed only on the outer margins of politics.

While Catholic schools were closing, the number of charter schools was increasing, and various states were setting up voucher programs for low - income students to attend (some) private schools.

Defenders of the status quo in education routinely label certain proposed reforms — including tax credits, voucher programs, for - profit education management organizations (or EMOs), and charter schooling — as «anti-public education,» often to great effect.

That is the case in 2016, as education reformers struggle with the meaning of choice and opportunity two decades after founding the first charter schools and voucher programs.

Researchers have shown that Catholic schools are more racially integrated than public schools and that voucher programs do not have an adverse effect on integration.

In addition to academic gains for students in some voucher programs, other scholars have identified benefits among public schools as a result of such programs.

Learn more about the benefits and drawbacks of voucher programs in our Spring 2018 forum or on our topics page.

One proposal would offer individuals and / or corporations a federal tax credit if they donate to voucher programs.

But while voucher programs, for example, have overcome legal prohibitions in some states, political resistance to the flow of substantial public funds to schools not under the control of districts remains intense.

Of course, as there were no sustained U.S. voucher programs to evaluate at the time, that narrow claim was correct.

In the words of the late union leader Al Shanker, widespread voucher programs that send students to private schools «would foster divisions in our society; they would be like setting a time bomb.»

In Wisconsin in 2011, AFC supported legislation to prevent officials at schools ousted from voucher programs from working in or operating another voucher - eligible school for seven years.

These provisions, as well as others that were added later, could have a major impact on the future viability of voucher programs - but not without opening the door to yet another wave of litigation.

In fact, more children (60,000) participate in privately funded voucher programs than in publicly funded programs.

Putting himself somewhat at odds with many voucher proponents, Moe suggests that - based on what the public says - voucher proponents would do well to «get away from free markets and accept an integral role for government regulation in the design of voucher programs.»

Today's research shows that, especially for urban minority students, charter schools and voucher programs improve high school graduation rates and college enrollment.

Tax - credit initiatives are spreading more quickly than voucher programs, and a close look at the public opinion data suggests that is likely to continue.

When the Florida Senate took up a measure this month designed to protect voucher programs from legal challenges, the chamber couldn't have been more divided: The bill was defeated by just one vote.

There are more children being home schooled than there are in all of the voucher programs combined.

Most people are familiar with voucher programs, where state dollars go to pay for tuition at private schools.

Writing for Chalkbeat, Dylan Peers McCoy describes how one of the nation's largest school voucher programs has changed the private schools that participate, leading them to focus more intensely on student test scores.

In Supplying Choice, my colleagues and I examined the quality levels of private schools that decided to participate in voucher programs in Indiana, D.C., and Louisiana.

Earlier this year Joseph Bast, president of the pro-voucher Heartland Institute, wrote: «Pilot voucher programs for the urban poor will lead the way to statewide universal voucher plans.

The Florida program is more regulated than other tax credit scholarship programs, but less regulated than most voucher programs, according to a 2013 Fordham Institute study.

The Arizona Supreme Court ruled in Cain v. Horne that voucher programs violate the aid clause of the Arizona Constitution, which states, «No tax shall be laid or appropriation of public money made in aid of any... private or sectarian school.»

One can derive a better estimate from recent research conducted on other urban voucher programs that serve low - income families.

In a recent Brookings report, Mark Dynarski cites studies of Indiana and Louisiana private school voucher programs that show negative effects, raising provocative questions regarding the impact and viability of such programs.

(Several states with voucher programs have done more by way of obligating voucher - aided schools to participate in state assessments.)

Though there are currently more students participating in scholarship tax credit (STC) programs than voucher programs nationwide (about 151,000 to 104,000), the former have not received nearly as much attention as the latter.

The history of the MPCP illustrates how voucher programs can provide significant taxpayer savings when students voluntarily choose to attend schools that draw less on public funds than the schools they would otherwise attend.

Such a strategy also calls for researchers to ask more nuanced questions than simply whether or not voucher programs are better than public school programs.

Still, the value of tax - credit programs in states with strong constitutional prohibitions on aid to religious schools was confirmed by the near - simultaneous invalidation of Arizona's new voucher programs.

Most charter schools serve mainly elementary students, and young children make up the largest share of the few voucher programs that have been attempted.

«These descriptive data show how means tests and other provisions to target school voucher programs to disadvantaged students serve to minimize the threat of cream - skimming,» Wolf says.

Recent studies purport to show that voucher programs result in better achievement by black students at private schools, and that vouchers motivate public schools to improve.

We've gone from two, century - old voucher programs in Maine and Vermont to having private school choice in more than half of the states.

Writing in EdNext recently, the Thomas B Fordham Institute's Michael Petrilli offers a useful overview of the accountability provisions in modern school voucher programs.

Equally uncharacteristic was litigation involving voucher programs for students with special needs and those in foster care.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

Moreover, we found that private schools in D.C. and Louisiana, the two states that have higher regulatory burdens, are less likely to participate in voucher programs.

Perhaps more helpful would be the freeing of public education from state officials through charter schools and voucher programs, which would limit the reach and power of small veto groups, who can so easily intimidate public authorities.

A productive response to that question would not contemplate the merits of «voucher programs» per se but would instead view vouchers as one vehicle among others for growing the number of high - quality individual school choices available to low - income families.

Arizona «Ground Zero» for Koch Attack on Public Education (The Center for Media and Democracy) Mention of HGSE Professor Marty West's research into voucher programs in Louisiana and their impact on student achievement.

That helps to explain why each of the nation's school - voucher programs got off to such a slow start.

In The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (Brookings, 2002), we and our colleagues reported that attending a private school had no discernible impact, positive or negative, on the test scores of non-African-American students participating in school voucher programs in Washington, D.C., New York City, and Dayton, Ohio.

Unlike state - subsidized voucher programs, which are funded by collected tax revenues, this program bypasses state coffers by giving corporations a dollar - for - dollar tax break when they contribute to a scholarship funding organization.