Sentences with phrase «voucher scholarship programs»

This scheme will use taxpayer money in the form of tax credits for corporations and wealthy donors who make contributions to state - sponsored voucher scholarship programs.

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That program, criticized by the state's teachers union as a voucher program, would increase by $ 3.35 million to make $ 8.85 million available for scholarships.

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.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

Though voucher programs tend to receive more attention, more than six in ten students attending private school through an educational choice program are using tax - credit scholarships.

Private school choice programs, such as vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and education savings accounts, can provide a private school «balance» to strong charter school laws.

In the past few years, new statewide voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio and the steady growth of a tax - credit funded scholarship program in Florida have offered a glimpse of what expansive private - school choice might look like.

Thus, the significance of the scholarship programs and vouchers, and the Church's mission to the poor.

And, to be fair, that's still the case for some voucher and tax credit scholarship programs, where test - based accountability requirements remain light to nonexistent.

A more likely scenario could be an effort to reform the tax code to offer tax credits for donations to organizations that provide scholarships to low - income students — an approach that could serve much the same purpose as school vouchers but would not require the creation of a new direct - spending program.

Opportunity Scholarships Currently, 13 directly funded voucher programs operate in four U.S. cities and six states, serving approximately 65,000 students.

A school voucher program can not force scholarship recipients to use a voucher, nor can it prevent control - group students from attending private schools at their own expense.

A voucher program can only offer students scholarships that they subsequently may or may not use.

Lawyers for each side sparred over the role of religion in many of the private schools that receive vouchers under Florida's Opportunity Scholarships program.

Hess's other case studies include the state - funded voucher program in Cleveland and a privately funded scholarship program in the Edgewood district of San Antonio, Texas.

Conclusions School voucher initiatives such as the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the pProgram will remain politically controversial in spite of rigorous evaluations such as this one, showing that parents and students benefited in some ways from the programprogram.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

In 2006, the court had struck down the state's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a voucher program for students trapped in failing public schools (see «Florida Grows a Lemon,» legal beat, SummerProgram, a voucher program for students trapped in failing public schools (see «Florida Grows a Lemon,» legal beat, Summerprogram for students trapped in failing public schools (see «Florida Grows a Lemon,» legal beat, Summer 2006).

In addition to the creation of a new program and the EdChoice Program's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship aprogram and the EdChoice Program's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship aProgram's expansion, one of the state's other voucher programs, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarshScholarship and Tutoring Program, will see increases in scholarship aProgram, will see increases in scholarshipscholarship amounts.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income Washington D.C. children to use school vouchers to attend the private schools of their parents» choice, was scheduled to be terminated as its funding had run its course.

Matt Chingos, one of the authors of the study, talks with Marty West about how the Florida Tax Credit scholarship program works, how the effects of the program were studied, and how his findings fit in with those of other studies of voucher and tax credit programs.

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.

Florida's choice strategy also included the creation of the nation's largest voucher program — the McKay Scholarship Program — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged chprogram — the McKay Scholarship Program — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged chProgram — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged children.

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.

I also agree that our three primary areas of contention are: 1) the differences between STC programs and vouchers and their significance; 2) the fiscal impact of STC programs; and 3) who receives tax - credit scholarships.

Every voucher and tax - credit scholarship program is at least fiscally neutral, and most produce significant savings for school districts, according to the foundation, which supports vouchers and other forms of school choice.

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.

In the federally funded Opportunity Scholarship Program in Washington, D.C., for example, almost half of the available vouchers went unused in the first year of the program because its organizers didn't have adequate time to inform pProgram in Washington, D.C., for example, almost half of the available vouchers went unused in the first year of the program because its organizers didn't have adequate time to inform pprogram because its organizers didn't have adequate time to inform parents.

In «Dick Durbin and D.C. School Vouchers» (editorial, September 30), you suggest that «Mr. Durbin deserves the benefit of the doubt» as to whether he is proceeding «in good faith» about reauthorization of the DC Scholarship Program.

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 FTC program is effectively a means - tested voucher program, but it is called a tax credit scholarship program because rather than being funded directly by the government it is supported by corporate donations to non-profit organizations (which distribute the scholarships).

Greene and Buck note that in Florida, where the McKay Scholarship for Students with Disabilities program has offered vouchers to disabled students since 1999, vouchers allow nearly 7 percent of special education students to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental control group.

«The Effect of Special Education Vouchers on Public School Achievement: Evidence From Florida's McKay Scholarship Program»

Specifically, for students who had attended public schools deemed to be failing before the students took part in the voucher program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test program — a high - priority target for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test Program — the new federal study shows no statistically significant impacts on their test scores.

Many current voucher or tax - credit scholarship programs implement school requirements, such as background checks, nondiscrimination requirements, or testing requirements, that could limit private school participation.

In a recent policy paper, we argued that private schools participating in voucher programs should have to administer their state's tests to their scholarship students.

That same year 19,852 students eligible for special education took advantage of the opportunity to use a voucher to attend private schools, and 21,493 students received scholarships averaging $ 3,750 from a tax credit program that opened private schooling to students from low - income families.

It would offer individuals and / or corporations a federal tax credit if they donated to scholarship (i.e., voucher) programs in states with their own tax credit initiatives.

Using a similar definition of scholarship use (receipt of any scholarship assistance), the evaluators of the federally funded Washington, D.C., voucher program estimated a positive impact of 21 percent on the high - school graduation rates of study participants, 88 percent of whom were African Americans.

Or consider private school choice mechanisms like voucher and tax credit scholarship programs: Despite the positive impacts of these programs, only eleven of our thirty cities are located in states where they are legal.

Students classified as learning disabled were excluded from the analysis, as they are eligible for a more generous voucher through the McKay Scholarship Program, and the FTC program should therefore have had no effect on schools» efforts to retain these students (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, WinterProgram, and the FTC program should therefore have had no effect on schools» efforts to retain these students (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, Winterprogram should therefore have had no effect on schools» efforts to retain these students (see «The Case for Special Education Vouchers,» features, Winter 2010).

Indeed, many school choice opponents claim private schools are unregulated, particularly schools participating in voucher and tax - credit scholarship programs.

First, a point of clarification: Florida has a scholarship tax credit (STC) law, not a voucher program.

Programs that enable students to attend private schools, including both vouchers and scholarships funded with tax credits, have become increasingly common in recent years.

Contrary to Strauss» assertions, scholarship tax credit programs are not the same as vouchers.

Ed Next also published a timely study this fall looking at the effects of the vouchers on segregation «The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department claims, students transfers improve racial integration»

Ed Week, Ed Sector, and others are picking up on a hyperventilating story from the free weekly Miami New Times about misconduct in Florida's McKay Scholarship voucher program for disabled students.

During a decade when voucher programs were handed defeats in Florida, Arizona, Utah, and Washington, DC, the state of Louisiana established a scholarship program that now provides vouchers worth up to $ 7,000 so that 1,324 poor youngsters in New Orleans can attend private schools.