Sentences with phrase «voucher students despite»
As soon as the law was passed, four religious schools applied for a waiver and all four were approved to take on new voucher students despite their failing grades.
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Despite these differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield positive achievement effects for participating students.
This despite the fact that eligibility for Milwaukee vouchers is limited to students from low - income families while «students in MPS schools come from a much broader range of social and economic backgrounds.»
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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.
Despite claims that vouchers help disadvantaged students, research consistently shows that vouchers drain education budgets, don't cover the full cost of tuition, and fail to produce better academic results for students.
The NEA says that there is no link between vouchers and gains in student achievement, despite many studies disproving that assertion.
That growth has come despite critics who contend that vouchers divert money from public schools to private institutions that do not have the same student - testing or teacher - accountability rules and can freely mix education with religion.
Johnson's amendment says the provisions that protect students with disabilities from discrimination can not be enforced in private voucher schools because the schools are not public, despite receiving public money in the form of a school voucher.
But despite the fact that, by some estimates, 380,000 children were eligible for the vouchers, just 6,900 students actually took advantage of them for the 2016 - 17 school year, a number that, despite its relatively paltry size, Wolf said isn't shockingly low.
It concluded: «Despite over a billion dollars in public subsidies for private schools since the programs» inceptions, there is no central reckoning of administrative or programmatic expenditures by either SOs or the private schools that voucher students attend.»
Despite voucher supporters» efforts to make the voucher debate about «school choice» and improving opportunities for low - income students, vouchers remain an elitist strategy for subsidizing tuition for students in private schools, not expanding opportunities for low - income children.
The bill failed to pass despite massive amounts of money and effort being poured into Tennessee to advance vouchers, by groups such as Students First and the American Federation for Children (of which Secretary DeVos is the former chairwoman.)