Sentences with phrase «voucher systems in»

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan has asked an investigative arm of the federal government to examine how the school voucher system works in Milwaukee to determine whether the school voucher systems in Wisconsin operate properly.

The program is the oldest and one of the largest school voucher systems in the nation, serving 21,000 students, or nearly a fifth of Milwaukee's K - 12 population.

Without a voucher system in which parents may supplement the voucher, for - profit schools will be bound by fixed per - pupil allocations, hindering their ability to compete on price.

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.

The bill creates a statewide voucher system in New Hampshire through the authorization of education freedom savings accounts.

A second system — the first statewide voucher system in the country, which was struck down by the Florida Supreme Court in 2006 — gave vouchers to public school students in a «failing school» to move to a public or private school of their choice, according to the conservative think tank, Washington Policy Center.

Owens concluded by acknowledging the limitations of a voucher system in improving the overall educational justice that has been diverted from our communities:

There is also a vouching system in place.

Not exact matches

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

The virtual rewards system with badges and leaderboards is in place by default while real rewards can be anything, say, a voucher.

Similar to the voucher system which was supported by many neoliberal economists in the past the goal is to starve the public system and break the unions.

With a voucher system, every group has full freedom to sponsor a school grounded in its own moral and religious beliefs.

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

The American Muslim community is keenly involved and interested in the possibility of vouchers, for an Islamic education system is clearly in the making.

(2) Parochial school aid: In addition to supporting a voucher system, the Reagan administration has been indefatigable in its desire to channel public money generally into private schoolIn addition to supporting a voucher system, the Reagan administration has been indefatigable in its desire to channel public money generally into private schoolin its desire to channel public money generally into private schools.

One example of the threats to religious liberty that have arisen in Congress is the current bill proposing a «voucher» system directing education funds to either public or private (including religious) schools.

Thus he advocates a voucher system to help independent colleges and universities cope with the radically uneven financial playing field they occupy in competing with state - owned and state - financed universities.

-- supportive public health system that can ensure parents have the resources they need to properly care for their children (including vouchers for transportation to routine medical appointments, and clinics located in the neighbourhoods where people live).

It's a measure that is also strongly opposed by the New York School Boards Association, which believes the bill would put in place the state's «first private voucher system.»

v. «Do you oppose the Ryan plan to save Medicare from bankruptcy by replacing the current system with vouchers for people in their early 50's?»)

Why supporters are excited: Although previous attempts at campaign finance reform in states like Maine and Arizona have had mixed results, supporters feel Seattle's voucher system will be different.

At 10:30 a.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and Beth Finkel, AARP New York State Director Beth Finkel will discuss Congressional proposals to create a voucher system for Medicare recipients with a projected 15,000 AARP members from across New York in a tele town hall.

The UFT has issued a memo warning of a potential loss of millions of dollars in federal funds for more than 1,200 New York City public schools if Trump's administration adopts a voucher system for schools.

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.

In a range of proposals designed to show the coalition has not run out of ideas, Cameron and Clegg will set out plans for a flat - rate childcare voucher paid through the tax system, likely to be worth up to # 2,000 per child; a cap on the cost of social care; new help with mortgages; and transport investment through road tolls.

«The voucher system scares me to death,» said Lynn Harrison, an 8th - grade English language arts teacher at the East Fordham Academy for the Arts in the Bronx.

I would vote for the DEM... she was way more down to earth and a moderate in her views... Corwin kept doubling down on the Paul Ryan plan to destroy medicare and replace it with a voucher system.

Despite the fact that the city already has a heralded public - matching system that encourages small donation fundraising, Albanese pointed to the «democracy voucher» program instituted in Seattle, which is even more radical in its efforts to lower individual donation

The voucher program began in 2009, when a group of conservative candidates won control of the district school board and began a sweeping effort to privatize the education system in Douglas County — one of the wealthiest in the country.

[Updated at 6:52 p.m. with comment from NYCHA] Rep. Jerrold Nadler and his nine fellow New York Democrats are urging the New York City Housing Authority to halt the termination of Section 8 housing vouchers, in the wake of complaints and two lawsuits blaming the agency's new computer system for mistakenly dropping tenants from the program.

The two federal lawsuits, filed in Manhattan and Brooklyn, claimed that NYCHA's new computer and phone systems cost Section 8 tenants their housing vouchers, causing them to pay additional rent and endure lengthy housing court proceedings.

The Obama administration has retained the structure of Medicare and made moves to keep it afloat, whereas a Romney - Ryan administration proposes an overhaul and a voucher system to purchase insurance in a new private marketplace

The vouchers have two layers of encryption, rather like an envelope inside another envelope, explains Jan Camenisch, one of the system's developers at IBM's research lab in Zurich, Switzerland.

Called Idemix, the software uses a system of anonymous vouchers that simply confirm a piece of information about an individual, such as that he or she is over 18, meaning they do not need to disclose identifying details in return for services.

and the vouch system is helpful in weeding out some of the creeps.

Mirror.co requires a phone number, which is used in a double - blind text messaging system and also has a vouching system.

Sony Italy recently announced PS Plus Bonus, a system of further discounts and vouchers exclusive to PS Plus subscribers in Italy.

«Vouchers are not an end in themselves,» Friedman wrote in 1995; «they are a means to make a transition from a government to a market system.»

The theory undergirding this system is that schools in danger of failing will improve their academic performance to avoid the political embarrassment and potential loss in revenues from having their students depart with tuition vouchers.

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

In Bush v. Holmes (2006), the state supreme court struck down Florida's Opportunity Scholarship Program, a small voucher program serving fewer than 800 students, on the grounds that it fell afoul of the state constitution's «uniformity» clause, which allegedly prevents the state from funding any program outside of or «parallel» to the public school system.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

The research included in this volume suggests that vouchers and faith - based programs had slightly positive effects relative to the traditional education systems in several nations (for instance, Chile, Columbia, and Sierra Leone), but the volume also includes some evidence that serves to counter an overly - optimistic view of PPPs.

In 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary educatioIn 2011 - 12, a series of student - led protests arose around Chile demanding major reforms to the country's education system, including the end of the Chilean school voucher system and more direct state involvement in secondary educatioin secondary education.

In their minds (and mine), there is no reason one can't be supportive of both, no reason vouchers can't coexist with and promote a healthy public school system.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

Given that similar factors are at work in Florida's accountability system, I suspect that most, if not all, of the improvements in school performance in that state's failing schools are attributable to the state's administered accountability system, not to the voucher component of that program.

Charters and vouchers, for example, have not succeeded in extending school choice to many more millions of kids because the structural rigidities, ingrained practices, and adult interest groups that dominate the system haven't let that happen.

In the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metricIn the most regulated environment, larger participants — those schools with 40 or more students funded through vouchers in testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metricin testing grades, or with an average of 10 or more students per grade across all grade levels — receive a rating through a formula identical to the school performance score system used by the state to gauge public school performance, inclusive of test score performance, graduation rates, and other outcome metrics.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...