Sentences with phrase «voucher system allows»

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

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Other countries (notably Sweden) and Canadian provinces (Alberta and other western provinces) allow variants of the voucher system to operate.

The system allows Twitch stars to cash out in multiple ways including via cash, pre-paid cards, vouchers, and checks.

The logical extension of Jason's argument is that an all voucher education system would lead to a public education system where all schools would be allowed to reject students based on wealth, academic performance, and behavior.

This voucher system would allow market pressures to work their magic, as schools would be forced to improve their quality in order to compete for students and their voucher dollars.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

If traditional public - school systems work by spending someone else's money on someone else's children, taxpayer - funded vouchers allow parents to spend taxpayer money on their own children.

The voucher amendment, which allows students who have dropped out of school for at least six months to re-enroll at another participating school or school system, was slipped into the education - reform package in the last moments of a late - night session by Senator Steven J. Durham, Republican of Colorado Springs.

Alabama also enacted tuition grant state laws permitting students to use vouchers at private schools in the mid-1950s, while also enacting nullification statutes against court desegregation mandates and altering its teacher tenure laws to allow the firing of teachers who supported desegregation.50 Alabama's tuition grant laws would also come before the court, with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama declaring in Lee v. Macon County Board of Education vouchers to be «nothing more than a sham established for the purpose of financing with state funds a white school system.»

Taking cues from the failure of the voucher system in New Orleans, where state money came with additional regulations, Texas would continue to allow private and religious schools academic freedom.

These schemes also include tax breaks for private school participants, a statewide voucher system, special education vouchers, takeover policies that allow unelected czars to control public schools, and an expansion of private charters.

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.

Indiana's voucher system that allows low - income kids to use state funds to attend private schools has put the state in a $ 40 million deficit.

Similarly, the Florida school choice advocacy group RefinED contends that school vouchers, which allow parents to transfer students to private schools at taxpayer expense, make private schools part of the public school system.

Critics say this lopsided exposure fueled Ms. DeVos's staunch support of privately run, publicly funded charter schools and voucher programs that allow families to take tax dollars from the public education system to private schools.

The previous year, Betsy had spearheaded an aggressive $ 5.7 million campaign to convince Michigan voters to amend the state constitution to allow for school vouchers, something critics said would divert millions in state and local funds to private and parochial schools at the expense of the public - school system.

If a voucher program allows students already enrolled in a private school to qualify, then those students do not directly relieve the public school system of any costs.

Friedman and his colleagues envisioned a system in which schools helped to fulfill «the ultimate objective of society» by «maximiz [ing] the freedom of the individual or the family» through subsidized vouchers, which would allow underprivileged students to enroll in private institutions (Ravitch 2010).

The group said the program allows private schools to offer more scholarships to students unable to pay because of the voucher system, but did not provide data confirming the claim.

DeVos recently slammed Denver in a speech because its voucher system doesn't allow parents to take public money to pay for private schools.