Sentences with phrase «voucher students enter»

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

As the controversy raged in the late 1990s, a group of philanthropists created the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF), which offered three - year vouchers worth up to $ 1,400 annually to as many as 1,000 low - income families with children who were either entering 1st grade or were public school students about to enter grades two through five.

Entering the 2002 - 03 administration of the FCAT, the focus of this study, 129 schools had received at least one F. Students in ten schools had become eligible for vouchers since the grading of schools began during the 1998 - 99 school year.

Statewide, students receiving vouchers were low - achieving before entering private schools (on average, performing at the 42nd percentile compared to public - and private - school students statewide).

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The state's low - income voucher students «appear to be lower - achieving students from the public sector,» they write, «and enter private schools substantially behind their private school peers.»

While Yoder wanted to allow siblings of current voucher recipients to receive private school tuition dollars without entering the public school system, Kenley said at the time this would break an agreement that was central to the original voucher bill: public schools get the first chance at educating students.

The voucher program allows low - income students to attend private school at taxpayer expense if they are in C -, D - or F - rated public school or entering kindergarten.

One such study was released this April, showing that students in the only federally funded voucher program, in Washington, D.C., performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate.

Plus, the 2007, 2008, 2009 and the 2010 Department of Education Reports all show that students who entered the voucher program from SINI schools have shown no improvement in academic achievement.

This means that for students who used vouchers to transfer into a private school, both black and white students most often entered a private school in which their race or ethnicity was already over-represented relative to the community.

Furthermore, in Cleveland's voucher program, minority students were much more likely than their peers to have never entered a voucher program or left their voucher program and returned to public schools.