Sentences with phrase «vouchers for private school tuition»

She also met with lawmakers who are considering a bill to expand statewide a program offering tax - funded vouchers for private school tuition.

President Richard Nixon adopted a «southern strategy» to bring white southerners and northern Catholics into the Republican Party through advocating for vouchers for private school tuition.

The choice movement, which includes vouchers for private school tuition and the creation of charter schools, sought better education through the market mechanism of having parents choose which schools their children would attend.

Proponents of a measure that would provide poor families in Arizona with state - funded vouchers for private school tuition hope to coax enough support from lawmakers this week to encourage Gov. Fife Symington to call a special legislative session to act on the plan.

Education lobbyists say HR 2086 would conceivably allow school districts to use federal dollars to pay for vouchers for private school tuition or to pay private companies to provide school services.

Not exact matches

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

An ESA is like a school voucher because it offers eligible families state - funded access to private school tuition, but unlike a school voucher, the ESA deposits money into an account that families can use for other expenses besides school tuition — for transportation or education - related technology, for example.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

Half our sample was instead asked a question about vouchers that did not mention wider choice for families but referred to the use of «government funds» for private - school tuition.

In contrast to vouchers (which are used for private school tuition), ESAs are accounts that families can use for a variety of education expenses — including tuition, online classes, tutoring, educational therapy services — or to contribute to a 529 college savings plan.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

The new version of the «at public expense» question asked, «Would you vote for or against a system giving parents government - funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at a private school?»

The second PDK item became the following: «Would you vote for or against a system giving parents the option of using government - funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at the public, private, or religious school of their choice?»

He urged state lawmakers to create a voucher program that would allow kids to use public dollars for private school tuition.

Most people are familiar with voucher programs, where state dollars go to pay for tuition at private schools.

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

Not only would it terminate the voucher program for 4,000 children in Cleveland; it would open to challenge the Milwaukee program through which 10,000 low - income students receive up to $ 5,553 in tuition relief for private and religious schools.

Private schools should be required to take vouchers as payment in full for their services: private schools should not be permitted to discriminate against families who are unable to top off the tuition with personalPrivate schools should be required to take vouchers as payment in full for their services: private schools should not be permitted to discriminate against families who are unable to top off the tuition with personalprivate schools should not be permitted to discriminate against families who are unable to top off the tuition with personal funds.

Public schools all over the nation — but especially in cities — are grappling with difficult problems of strikes, decreasing enrollment and increasing costs, as well as the perceived threat of tax credits for private - school tuition and voucher plans.

It says a large - scale voucher study would help determine whether giving public school students vouchers to pay for tuition at private schools can improve achievement, especially for students in poor, urban areas.

Meanwhile, the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, whose private school system is expected to provide the bulk of the seats for new voucher students and which was involved in passing and developing the program, is seeking additional money, noting that their tuition rates on average cover only about 50 percent of the system's costs to educate each child.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

Jindal casts himself as a «policy wonk» and reformer, and his agenda for education features several ideas unfathomable in previous administrations: teacher pay for performance, school vouchers, and tax credits for private school tuition.

Yet the high level of satisfaction with private schools provides encouragement for those who support school voucher initiatives, which increase access to the private sector by paying some or all of students» tuition.

Arizona's legislature got around the voucher barrier by implementing a program in 20TK that allows eligible families to opt out of public schools and use the money the state would have used to educate them to pay for private school tuition, homeschool curricula, private tutoring, education therapy or other educational expenses.

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Other examples are public vouchers in Cleveland and Milwaukee, tax credits for private school tuition in Arizona and Illinois, and similar legislative proposals elsewhere...

Moreover, broadly available special ed vouchers could save money for financially strapped public schools, given that special ed vouchers are typically limited to the lower of the amount the public school would have spent or the private school tuition.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Owens last month, will provide state - financed vouchers of up to $ 5,000 to low - income students in low - performing urban districts to pay for tuition at religious or other private schools.

ESAs are distinct from vouchers because parents can use the funds for different education services, while vouchers can only be used for private school tuition.

A voucher (sometimes called a «scholarship») is a handout of taxpayer dollars for private school tuition: The government writes a check for tuition at a private school.

The rise of private schools in the South and the diversion of public funds to those private schools through vouchers was a direct response of white communities to desegregation requirements.42 In Louisiana, the state established the Louisiana Financial Assistance Commission, which offered vouchers of $ 360 for students attending private school but only provided $ 257 per student to those attending public schools.43 Over the commission's lifespan, the state devoted more than $ 15 million in vouchers through its tuition grant program, with the initial $ 2.5 million coming from Louisiana's Public Welfare Fund.

A different picture is presented by federal encouragement of charter schools and of providing tuition vouchers for private schools.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

In addition to vouchers, the category of private school choice now includes tuition tax credit programs, a legislative maneuver that lets business redirect taxes owed to the state toward «scholarships» for student tuition at private and religious schools.

Families can use these school vouchers to pay for tuition, transportation, equipment and other necessary private school expenses.

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.»

A $ 2,100 voucher payment does not come close to covering the entire cost of tuition or other mandatory fees for private schools.

Truth be told, candidate Trump had earlier signaled that his promise to respect state and local control was fraudulent because he pledged to spend $ 20 billion on charter schools and tuition vouchers for children to attend private schools.

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The same President Bush established a program in Washington, D.C., that provides tuition vouchers for students to attend private, including religious, schools.

DeVos is a Michigan billionaire who has used her fortune and political connections to lobby for charter schools and, especially, for taxpayer - funded vouchers that allow parents to take public money to help pay for tuition when their children attend private and religious schools.

Some may view the recent decline in private school enrollment as evidence of a need for more tuition vouchers and tax credits.

• States have adopted programs to use public funds for tuition at private schools, although 57 % of the public opposes such vouchers.

Instead, too often, our attention is diverted to tuition vouchers for private schools and charter schools, which only affect a small minority of students.

One requirement for private schools to participate in the voucher program includes providing the state with documentation of the tuition and fees the school charges.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, private school advocates tried to build support for tuition vouchers, payments of public tax funds for private school tuition.

Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who sent their children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public school taxes and again by paying tuition for their children's private schools.