Sentences with phrase «voucher students at»

The 10 voucher students at Lighthouse come from five families, and five of the children already were attending the school last year, Sierra said.

Because Indiana public and private schools use the same assessment in grades 3 — 8, we could identify public - school students who shared similar achievement trajectories and demographic characteristics with these voucher students at baseline (the year prior to a student switching from a public to a private school) and track both groups» academic progress for up to four subsequent years.

Not exact matches

I can vouch for her, I support her, I've known her since she was a student at the University of Ghana Faculty of Law and the law school.

They were reduced to # 40 from # 70, so # 36 with student discount and I had a # 10 voucher, so at # 26 they were a pretty good deal!

An evaluation of A-Plus can reveal whether the prospect of competition, in the form of vouchers offered to students at chronically failing schools, represents an effective incentive for improvement.

PDK (universal vouchers, government funding emphasis): Do you favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense?

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

(At current Ohio voucher levels, student receiving this assistance from Kindergarten through twelfth grade could qualify for as much as $ 58,250 in financial help.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

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.

Conversely, «if a white student uses a LSP voucher to attend a school that is more white than its surrounding community, the transfer would be reducing integration at the new school.»

Congress has appropriated $ 14 million annually to the program, enough to support about 1,700 students at the maximum voucher amount of $ 7,500.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

In fact, there have been seven scientifically valid random - assignment analyses of voucher programs, and all seven found either that all voucher students perform significantly better than their nonvoucher contemporaries, or at least that most of them do (in some studies the results for black students, the majority of participants, are positive, while the results for other students fail to achieve statistical significance).

In the case of private school choice, you're right that there's a mixed track record, though I would say mostly positive if you look at the full body of evidence about what happens when you allow a student to move from a public school to a private school using a voucher.

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

The net impact on taxpayers, then, is 1) the savings that come from the difference between the voucher and the per - pupil revenue at district schools, for those who would have attended them in the absence of the voucher program, minus 2) the voucher costs for students who would have attended private schools anyway.

A study in the Summer 2013 issue of Education Next looked at the impact of receiving a voucher on the college enrollment rates of students in New York City.

This dire sequence started, he says, with A Nation at Risk, the 1983 Reagan administration report that launched America on «experiments» such as «open classrooms, national goals, merit pay, vouchers, charter schools, smaller classes, alternative certification for teachers, student portfolios, and online learning, to name just a handful.»

If poor families were given vouchers redeemable at the schools of their choice, and the achievement of some students rose, it would call into question Rothstein's notion that income is the master variable.

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.

Supporters of government vouchers that would allow students to attend schools of their choice got some practical tips here at the Christian Coalition's annual «Road to Victory» conference.

Paul E. Peterson, a prominent voucher researcher and a professor of government at Harvard University, found last year that black students using the vouchers...

When Florida threatened to offer vouchers to students at chronically failing public schools, those schools made significant gains.

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 plStudents 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 plstudents 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 plstudents to be educated in private schools at public expense, six times the national average for private placement.

But most voucher studies are able to look only at the short - term effects on parental satisfaction and student test - score performance.

So, twenty years after the enactment of Milwaukee's program, a growing body of research shows that students receiving vouchers do as well and often better than their peers in public schools and at a fraction of the taxpayer cost.

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

Still other researchers with national credentials report that low - income voucher students in Milwaukee graduate from high schools at higher rates than do public school students.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

The other half was asked a question that might be termed «voucher - unfriendly» in that it emphasizes students going to private school at public expense.

More than 200 students had already begun the school year at religious schools, planning to use state vouchers for tuition, when the Wisconsin Supreme Court halted the program on Aug. 25 with a temporary injunction.

And contrary to the claim that vouchers hurt public schools, the report found that students at Milwaukee public schools «are performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

The achievement growth in math was not statistically significant relative to the achievement growth of the matched district - school students, but the study concluded that Milkwaukee district - school students were «performing at somewhat higher levels as a result of competitive pressure from the school voucher program.»

These case studies take a close look at some of the private schools accepting voucher students.

With vouchers, families could at least try an education designed more specifically to meet the needs and interests of their individual students.

First, CTBA cites a longitudinal study of Milwaukee's voucher program by researchers at the University of Arkansas, claiming that voucher students in grades 3 - 8 «performed statistically similar» to a matched group of district - school peers on standardized tests.

Confident that more of Washington's low - income public school students will apply for the tuition vouchers next year, federal officials said a study would be launched at that time.

All were privately funded; all were targeted at students from low - income families, most of whom lived in the inner city; all provided only partial vouchers, expecting the families to supplement them; and all of the students in the evaluations previously had been attending public schools.

Moreover, students offered vouchers graduated at a rate 12 percentage points higher than the control group, 82 percent to 70 percent respectively.

This means that simply comparing student achievement at schools serving more and fewer voucher students is apt to be misleading.

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»

Giving education vouchers to low - income parents would be a more effective way to finance the learning of economically and educationally deprived students than the current federal compensatory - education program, which should be terminated, contends Herbert J. Walberg, professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

I am, however, certain that if conservatives are not hypocrites, they will insist that Cleveland's suburban schools open — rather than, as they have close — their doors to the students whose vouchers, at conservatives» behest, Zelman upheld as constitutional.

Given the fact for the last 40 years or so, no more than 12 percent of students have attended private schools at any point, and today a fraction of 1 percent of students use a voucher or tax credit to attend private schools, it's hard to think they're responsible for America's creationist tendencies.

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.

I have used this termly and at the end of each term, the student with the most profit has been given a # 5 - # 10 voucher for a shop of their choice.

We found that low - income students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school in ninth grade subsequently graduated from high school, enrolled in a four - year college, and persisted in college at rates that were 4 — 7 percentage points higher than statistically similar Milwaukee students who started in public schools in ninth grade.

Through this plan, any student who had been enrolled in district schools for at least one year could apply for a voucher of approximately $ 4,600, equal to 75 percent of state per - pupil funding, to attend a «partner» private school, with the school district keeping the other 25 percent.