Sentences with phrase «voucher students do»

In Louisiana, private schools with fewer than 40 voucher students don't have to show basic competency among students in math, reading, social studies, and science.

«There's not ever been strong evidence that voucher students do better than students of similar incomes who remain in the public schools,» Colvin told StateImpact in September.

The school's voucher students don't post great results on math and reading tests; last year, Our Lady earned the equivalent of a D - from the state.

The problem with vouchers in terms of student achievement is that there's not ever been strong evidence that voucher students do better than students of similar incomes who remain in the public schools.

In many states, in fact, voucher students do no better — and sometimes fare worse — than their peers in public schools.

In one study, voucher students did no better than peers in the public schools for four years, then outpaced them in reading — but not math — in the fifth year.

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Not exact matches

Voucher programs that affect only a fraction of students do leave others behind, but that is not an argument against vouchers; it is an argument in favor of a voucher plan that is comprehensive.

Sharpton added that Devos — a longtime backer of charter and Christian schools --» does not believe in public education,» and would transform federal school funding into a voucher system that would favor a small percentage of well - off students while neglecting the rest.

Ohio law requires that voucher students are charged what they would otherwise pay if they didn't qualify for the financial help.

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?

Krueger further notes that «making vouchers available does not assure that students switch to private schools.»

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.

It does not guarantee enrollment in a private school, but the $ 7,500 voucher should make such enrollments relatively common among the students who won the scholarship lottery.

In every experimental evaluation of private school voucher programs, the students who won the voucher lottery but did not consistently use their voucher to attend private schools have remained in the study over time as members of the treatment group, and the students who lost the voucher lottery but enrolled in private school have remained in the study as members of the control group.

[3] Would poor students using vouchers to attend private schools do better than if they remained in their public systems?

What do we know about the impact of school vouchers on student learning and longer - term outcomes?

These studies are rigorous precisely because they do not simply compare voucher students with «their peers in public school.»

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.

The report, «Special Choices: Do voucher schools serve students with disabilities?»

The treatment group included 1,358 students who received a voucher offer; the control group included 1,279 students who did not receive a voucher offer.

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).

Fifty percent of the parents of voucher students said they were doing «very well» as compared to 52 percent of public school parents.

Because the 18,500 voucher users do not count in MPS revenue limits, $ 9,141 each was saved for the 90 percent of voucher students we assume would have attended MPS, a total of $ 152.2 million.

Rep. Annette «Polly» Williams is backing a proposal by state education officials to bar private schools in the program from charging voucher students registration and book fees that public schools do not impose, according to Greg Doyle, the spokesman for the state education department, which proposed the rule last month.

In Chile, students are found in four types of schools: elite schools that do not accept vouchers and charge considerably more than the voucher; for - profit voucher schools; nonprofit (usually religious) voucher schools; and municipal schools.

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.

We do know for a fact that parents and students who are using the K — 12 voucher program in Washington, D.C., believe their private schools are much safer, and parents often list safety as a top reason for choosing a private school.

That said, Moe's analysis does not, and can not, address the larger question of how social disparity would be distributed within each sector if all students were given vouchers to attend any school - public or private.

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.

By comparing only students who entered the voucher lottery, researchers controlled for differences between families that apply for vouchers and those who don't.

Because the voucher studies compare students who won a voucher to those who did not — and those not receiving a voucher very likely ended up in the new and improved public / charter system.

What Ravitch does not understand is that this is an «intention to treat» analysis, in which all students who started in private schools via the voucher program are counted as if they had remained there, even if they transferred into public high schools.

And special education vouchers even improve the quality of services for the disabled students who remain in public schools because those schools risk losing students to the voucher program if they do not serve the students well.

In the three cities roughly half the students initially took the voucher that was offered to them (the takers), and about half did not (the decliners).

On many topics — including school vouchers, charter schools, digital learning, student and school accountability, common core standards, and teacher recruitment and retention policies — the views of Hispanic adults do not differ noticeably from those of either whites or African Americans.

A recent Wall Street Journal analysis of the Milwaukee voucher program concludes that the share of voucher students in a private school is the key to success — that private schools with few students using vouchers do well, while schools with many students using vouchers do poorly.

In 2009, Warren estimates, 82 percent of 9th grade students in voucher schools graduated from high school, while just 70 percent of 9th graders in the Milwaukee Public Schools did.

In other words, the schools can do what they like but if their voucher - bearing students don't learn enough to pass the state tests, the state will do something about it — ultimately (under Louisiana regulations) eliminating those schools from eligibility to participate in the program.

A significant number of the students who were offered vouchers did not use them; similarly, a smaller proportion of those students not offered a voucher attended a private school anyway.

And the assessment shows that white voucher students from more affluent families do better — just as in public school.

It is reasonable to conclude that African - American students» initial gains in the New York City school voucher program were preserved but did not increase between year one and year two.

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.

Do students with vouchers learn more in private schools or in those run by municipalities?

To estimate the impact of switching from a public to a private school, we did not simply compare those students who used a voucher to enroll in a private school with all those who did not.

They will note that almost half of the control group attended charter schools, so to a large degree this study is a comparison of how students do in vouchers relative to charters.

It is generally thought that targeted school vouchers, i.e., vouchers limited to students from low - income families, have more widespread support than does a universal voucher program, which would allow any family to make use of a government voucher to attend a private school.

About one - third of Saint Martin's $ 6.6 million annual budget comes from the two voucher programs, putting the school in a unique category among schools in Ohio with a high percentage of voucher students: unlike other such schools, the state does not pay the bulk of Saint Martin's bills.

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

Second, Rick thinks there is an inconsistency in my suspicion that test - prep and manipulation are largely responsible for test score improvements by Milwaukee choice schools after they were required to take high - stakes tests, while I interpret research from Florida as showing schools made exceptional test score gains when faced with the prospect of having vouchers offered to their students if scores did not improve.