Sentences with phrase «voucher programs actually»

It's also a crock, because voucher programs actually save taxpayers money.

The most recent data from Louisiana and Ohio shows that voucher programs actually have a negative impact on student achievement.

In addition, we receive some smaller financial assistance to help close the gap between the cost of tuition and what the voucher program actually allows us to receive.

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JB: Florida's universal preschool policy is actually the largest voucher program in the nation, with about 80 percent of eligible kids participating.

But in a large - scale program, we do not know what proportion of the treatment group would actually use a voucher offered to them.

Given that Florida public schools spend close to $ 17,000 per disabled student and that the McKay program contains a roughly representative distribution of disability types, taxpayers are actually saving quite a bit of money with special education vouchers, and public school districts are certainly not being «financially punished.»

Unfortunately for DOJ, multiple studies showed that the voucher program was actually improving integration, and the agency withdrew its request for an injunction.

The DOJ claimed the voucher program imperiled desegregation efforts but two studies showed that the vouchers actually improved racial integration.

Looking at longitudinal studies in Milwaukee and Louisiana, she describes them in a way that will leave the impression that the results were negative for school choice: «In both cases, programs were used primarily by black students and generally did not exacerbate segregation in public schools; however, students using vouchers did not gain access to integrated private schools, and segregation in private schools actually increased.»

It's interesting that there have actually been two longitudinal studies of the Louisiana voucher program, and Potter didn't review the other one.

A 2016 review by Dr. Clive Belfield (Teachers College, Columbia University) of the Milwaukee voucher program by the University of Arkansas questioned the methodology of the study and concluded that there is little consideration of how voucher programs might actually influence criminality.

However, a recent major study of the statewide Louisiana voucher program found that, after two years, students in the program had actually lost ground in both reading and math.

Only the top seven states in the list actually have ESA, voucher, and / or tax - credit scholarship spending that is larger than 1 percent of combined program and public K — 12 spending in that respective state.

«Actually, I believe it will also become the fastest - growing third - year voucher program.»

Their board members include Dick DeVos, heir to the Amway fortune who has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars of seed money into school choice groups, and his wife Betsy DeVos, who actually runs AFC and is known for her conservative Christian right - wing ideology and for having poured millions into promoting voucher programs across the country.

A recent study of that program, released in July by the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute, found that students who used the vouchers to attend private schools actually performed worse on standardized tests than similar students who stayed in public schools.

The president claimed that the means - tested voucher programs in Milwaukee and D.C, «didn't actually make that much of a difference,» and added, «As a general proposition, vouchers have not significantly improved the performance of kids that are in these poorest communities.»

Wisconsin's accountability standards for its voucher program are actually a bit more robust than North Carolina's.

Mr. Obama said that the means - tested voucher programs in Milwaukee and Washington, D.C, «didn't actually make that much of a difference,» and added, «As a general proposition, vouchers have not significantly improved the performance of kids that are in these poorest communities.»

The study found that from 2011 - 2016, the number of students applying to the DC voucher program increased, but the number of students actually using a voucher decreased.

Although the finding that shelter intake declined in association with the inception of the voucher program, the presence of extraneous (confounding) factors associated both with time and shelter intake can not be ruled out, including migration into and out of the county (although the human population actually increased during the study period).