Sentences with phrase «vouchers under a new program»

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If the Greensboro Islamic Academy — or any other school receiving taxpayer funds under the new school voucher program — finds itself in a situation in which it can not complete the next school year thanks to financial instability, then recovering public voucher dollars would likely be impossible.

In this opinion, the New Mexico Attorney General declared that a voucher program under which the parents of exceptional children whose needs were not being met by the public schools could use the funds the school district would otherwise have spent on the children to purchase special education at private, nonsectarian institutions would be consistent with the New Mexico Constitution.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the wellbeing of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the Administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

Under the worst - case scenario, it will direct funds away from public school systems, either through a new formula that advantages states that establish voucher programs or by draining students and their accompanying per - pupil allocation away from public schools.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the well - being of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

But what ultimately resulted in New Living Word's expulsion from the voucher program was not its low academic standards; rather, it was found to be charging voucher students higher tuition rates than students paying their own way — which is prohibited under Louisiana's law (nothing in the North Carolina statute specifically addresses this potential consequence).

Under both bills, failing private schools in the voucher program wouldn't be allowed to accept new students on vouchers.

They've tried to tout the success of the new voucher program, but the fact is less than 4,000 of the 7,500 vouchers available under the new law have been used.

DPI said in the letter that a preliminary, but reliable look at the way schools measure up under the new formula shows no school districts are now eligible for a new program lawmakers also created during the last budget cycle that would give county executives the power to turn such schools in their county into private voucher schools or independent charter schools.

MADISON (AP) Public school districts could face an additional $ 48 million hit over the next two years under the voucher program included in Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget, according to a new memo from state financial analysts.

The plaintiffs in this new lawsuit claim that the Empowerment Account program is unconstitutional under the Arizona Supreme Court's 2009 ruling in Cain v. Horne, which struck down a voucher program for children with disabilities.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

Still, he has fallen short on other measures that might have given the state better grades by Rhee's standards, including his stalled proposal for a school - voucher program and his failed bid to end teacher seniority rights under the new tenure law.