Sentences with phrase «voucher recipients»

As a practical matter, this makes it impossible to accurately compare the performance of voucher recipients to their public school counterparts.

The bill also automatically makes siblings of current voucher recipients eligible for vouchers of their own.

Because of his efforts, I was able to tell him, the college - going rate of African American voucher recipients had increased by 24 percent.

And, private schools are required to meet the minimum standards established by the government in order to be eligible to accept voucher recipients.

The study also examined whether voucher recipients are transferring to more or less integrated schools.

State law mandates only a fraction of voucher schools, those with 25 or more voucher recipients, make their test scores public.

The programs do not provide data on the socio - economic, racial, or ethnic characteristics of voucher recipients, making comparisons between similarly - situated students impossible.

The proposal would also allow disabled students, foster children, siblings of current vouchers recipients and the children of active duty military or veterans to receive vouchers, regardless of family income.

Should voucher recipients take state tests?

A second point worth mentioning, highlighted in the Washington Post last week, is that weaker scores among voucher recipients don't necessarily mean that the D.C. OSP is not working.

For the academic year 2016 - 17, school voucher recipients comprised 60 percent of Trinity Christian's enrollment, according to state records.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

Fortunately, we have data on the school choices made by many voucher recipients, which enables us to study the program's likely effects on the racial makeup of Louisiana schools.

Similarly, a 2017 study of voucher students in Washington, D.C. showed voucher recipients did significantly worse on a national exam of math skills and fell a bit behind in reading.

Amid the background of hundreds of charter school students and special needs voucher recipients decked in matching yellow scarves — symbolic of school choice — Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves told attendees that Mississippi has «significantly more work to do» in providing students options.

At the two year mark, they found no significant achievement effects for students who were offered vouchers, but their third - year results found voucher recipients making outsized reading gains.

And Peterson and Chingos examined a privately funded voucher program in New York City and found that African - American voucher recipients experienced a 9 percentage point increase in attending college.

The state of Louisiana recently banned four schools from receiving new voucher students because the scores of prior voucher recipients had been so low.

The inadequate number of eligible applicants has led federal officials to drop plans for a study that would have compared the achievement of voucher recipients with that of students who requested the grants but didn't receive them.

Until now, random - assignment studies have almost unanimously found positive impacts for voucher recipients generally or particular subgroups, especially those that had been the most choice deprived (e.g., low - income minorities).

Mount Zion Christian Academy is another top voucher recipient.

The bill also would give priority to students from public schools rated a D or an F on the state's accountability assessment in cases where voucher recipients outnumber available spots in private schools.

It would also allow voucher recipients who meet the initial income level to keep their voucher if their income goes up to as much as $ 127,000 a year.

Mychal Thom, head of Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, estimated that at least half of his school's 366 voucher recipients last year would have enrolled at Concordia even if the voucher program did not exist.

Accordingly, the database that tracks voucher recipients contains missing, inaccurate, and unverified information.

Data from Serving Our Children, a nonprofit that administers the voucher program, show that 98 percent of voucher recipients graduated from high school on time last year, a far higher rate than the 70 percent of students who graduated in four years from D.C. Public Schools.

And while overall private school enrollment grew by 12,000 students over the past five years, the number of voucher recipients grew by 29,000, according to state data, meaning that taxpayer money is potentially helping thousands of families pay for a choice they were already making.

Instead, it says that researchers must use a «quasi-experimental» design, comparing voucher recipients to students with «similar backgrounds» in D.C. public and public charter schools.

A House budget proposal would at least partially take up that criticism, setting aside $ 1 million for an independent report on voucher recipients» academic outcomes and requiring that voucher students take part in a national, standardized test.

Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard, states that «weaker scores among voucher recipients may be a result of the fact that public school performance is improving, particularly in the District, where math and reading scores at traditional public and public charter schools have increased quickly over the past decade.»

Last week, the Department of Public Instruction announced that almost three - fourths of voucher recipients in the state's new expanded voucher program were already attending private school.

He decried the fact that «the vast majority» of voucher recipients chose to receive «religious indoctrination at state expense.»

As the state's school voucher program continues to expand rapidly — it is slated to grow from an initial $ 10 million annual appropriation to $ 145 million annually by 2026, spending roughly $ 1 billion in taxpayer dollars over ten years — it is notable that four out of the top ten private school voucher recipients are big players in statewide private school basketball programs.

Voucher programs, in most cases, do not empower low - income families to choose schools that they would not otherwise attend, since many voucher recipients have already attended private schools prior to receiving vouchers.

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

More commonly they funnel students into less selective religious schools and spur the creation of new minority - dominated private schools for voucher recipients, effectively a privatization.

Yet, a 2014 study by the Department of Education revealed that a full 35 % of voucher recipients in districts zoned for «schools in need of improvement» did not actually use their vouchers, and that students in SINI schools were less likely to accept vouchers than those in non-SINI public schools.

In most places, private schools accepting voucher recipients must meet standards set by the government, and voucher recipients must meet eligibility requirements, such as family income, disability status, and / or the performance of their assigned public school.

If vouchers are found constitutional only if charters are available and secular private schools open themselves to voucher recipients, the result could profoundly affect the future of school choice in ways neither side anticipated.

What makes Louisiana different from other cities is not just that they are regulating more heavily, but that voucher recipients take the state test, not some off - the - shelf norm - referenced test that is more in line with the ones that private schools normally use.

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

Statewide, the study found that the receiving schools were no more or less integrated, on average, than the public schools that the voucher recipients were leaving.

However, in the school districts under desegregation orders, 56 percent of the voucher recipients transferred to more racially integrated schools.