Sentences with phrase «voucher scheme»

Childcare vouchers: Many employers offer help to their employees through the childcare voucher scheme, though you can only take part if you have parental responsibility for a child.

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More and More Indians are now being coming under these gift voucher scheme.

We offer competitive salaries, dependent on experience and level of role offered, as well as a generous benefits package to include: 25 days holiday (plus bank), contributory pension scheme, life assurance, gym membership contribution, discounted legal fees, cycle to work scheme and childcare voucher scheme (additional benefits apply at more senior level)

Childcare Vouchers We operate a childcare voucher scheme, which is recognized by the government and offers potential tax benefits to those who participate.

Sterilisation as a means of controlling the community cat population has been carried out by members of the public using their own resources, with support from the Cat Welfare Society's reimbursement scheme and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal's sterilisation voucher scheme for the past 7 years.

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.»

Or will that money be used to correct the currently unconstitutional funding mechanism for Adam Laxalt and Brian Sandoval's school voucher scheme or Education Savings Accounts?

The idea behind this plan seems to be to limit it to Shelby County in order to mitigate opposition from lawmakers who fear a voucher scheme may negatively impact school systems in their own districts.

When programs are proposed in state legislatures, teachers» unions will inevitably frame the proposal as a «voucher scheme» and local media are likely to use «school vouchers» in headlines.

The union, undeterred by the rally, plans to forge ahead with the lawsuit, claiming that the «voucher scheme is not legal.»

TREE — Tennesseans Reclaiming Educational Excellence — is taking to the Hill on Tuesday to express opposition to a voucher scheme.

There's the sketchy school voucher scheme that diverts public money to almost completely unaccountable private schools and religious academies that even some prominent Republicans say shouldn't receive taxpayer funds.

That's what's behind this latest call to expand the voucher scheme.

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

«What are they so afraid of going to the courts to ensure this voucher scheme is legal?

In a recent House Committee on Appropriations hearing where she defended the Trump administration's fiscal year 2018 budget, DeVos refused to say whether K - 12 private schools receiving federal dollars through her voucher scheme would be permitted to discriminate against students.

The goal of creating the voucher scheme last session was not to see how a limited number of students using a limited amount of public dollars would fare in the voucher program.

Parents for Educational Freedom NC (PEFNC)-- a pro-voucher lobby in North Carolina that receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family — has made campaign contributions to Stam and has even flown him and other lawmakers to Florida in 2013 to learn more about that state's own voucher scheme.

Each of these factors influenced the voucher scheme towards a more equitable and democratic design that supported positive attitudes toward ethnic minorities and immigrants and prevented the kind of segregation that is typically observed in voucher programs in other societies.

More than 90 percent of the private schools who receive taxpayer funds through the voucher scheme are religious and the bulk of those are conservative fundamentalist schools, many of which use the A-Beka Book curriculum and books from Bob Jones University Press.

It's past time for a long, careful look at the troubling voucher scheme in North Carolina.

We added to this literature by investigating the impact of the Swedish voucher scheme on a fundamental democratic goal of schooling, social cohesion, measured as civic attitudes of students toward ethnic minorities and immigrants.

For at least two reasons, we initially suspected that the expansion of the Swedish voucher scheme would be accompanied by a decline in social cohesion.

Thus, we expected social cohesion to fall under the voucher scheme because a smaller share of students would interact with ethnically and socioeconomically diverse peers.

Lawmakers seek massive expansion of voucher scheme that discriminates against LGBT students

Second, although the Swedish voucher scheme requires private schools to follow the same curricular framework as public schools, they operate independently in many respects and are not held to the same level of accountability.

It was former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson who notoriously recounts returning from an ALEC convention with the idea of diverting public money to private schools in Milwaukee — the first state voucher scheme in the nation — which he misleadingly touts as his own.

What they know is that their universal voucher scheme (i.e., a voucher in every backpack), where public dollars flow directly to families rather than schools, makes it impossible for a public school infrastructure to survive.

According to Overregulation Theory, regulations imposed by Louisiana's voucher scheme were so burdensome that only the private schools most desperate to boost enrollment opted to participate.

The Trust is recommending that the government introduce a means - tested voucher scheme to provide tuition for their children.

A new vehicle for carrying vouchers (HB1049 / SB999) is the chosen method for implementing a voucher scheme in Tennessee.

One of its changes is to bar for - profit schools from the voucher scheme.

«The Trust is recommending that the government introduce a means - tested voucher scheme to enable lower income families to provide tuition for their children.»

In October 2001, he had to apologise after speaking up in favour of Home Secretary David Blunkett's abolition of the voucher scheme for asylum seekers.

Around 1.9 million families could benefit, twice as many as under the present voucher scheme which is only available where adopted by an employer.

Forty SMEs are today being announced as the first winners of a groundbreaking voucher scheme which aims to create a positive link between SMEs and the Universities in the West Midlands region.

Proposals, which are also sought for these clusters, are expected to cover a variety of activities such as studentships, Knowledge Transfer Partnerships, Third Sector placements and a voucher scheme designed to allow Third Sector organisations to «buy in» academic expertise.

As a result, the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) today stressed that the proposals for a voucher scheme were still at a preliminary stage, and said the final details of the contract would not be finalised until February.

Yes, you might be able to take advantage of a childcare voucher scheme to pay for childcare.

Undeterred, Cameron is due to announce a voucher scheme suggesting all parents would benefit from the parenting classes.

Martin Keown is supporting McDonald's coaching voucher scheme, offering anyone in football, the chance to apply for one of 500 coaching vouchers each worth # 100.

While charity ActionAid welcomed the Conservative's commitment to aid spending, they were also highly critical of the vouchers scheme.

She also advised companies who have private databases to consider implementing professional website security options, such as Sharkgate, and outlined the UK government's Innovation Vouchers scheme that gives money to companies to help them secure their sites.

The groups decry DeVos's support of «voucher schemes which siphon away all - too - limited education funds» and suggest her positions on women's healthcare (read: «abortion») and affirmative action are reasons to scuttle her appointment.

If Cleveland's charter schools are the key to making vouchers constitutional, must future voucher schemes also include a charter component?

«The funders are the same organizations trying to dismantle public education in North Carolina through private school voucher schemes and for - profit management organizations.

«We know why parents sometimes embrace these voucher schemes.

«If the Court does not rule against these voucher schemes, it will strengthen efforts that seek to erode school board members» ability to prepare all students for success in the 21st century.»

Despite the fact that 90 percent of students attend public schools, this budget dramatically reduces funding for these schools in favor of a massive investment of $ 1 billion — four times the amount in last year's proposal — in ineffective private school voucher schemes, putting the most vulnerable students at risk.