Sentences with phrase «when voucher programs»

The findings raise new questions about the impact that expanding private - school voucher programs could have on religious life in America, at a time when voucher programs are expanding and the number of people claiming religious affiliation is declining.

Parents also can not exercise a real choice when voucher programs do not provide them with necessary or accurate data needed to make informed educational choices.

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During a decade when voucher programs were handed defeats in Florida, Arizona, Utah, and Washington, DC, the state of Louisiana established a scholarship program that now provides vouchers worth up to $ 7,000 so that 1,324 poor youngsters in New Orleans can attend private schools.

The Milwaukee movement would experience another major victory six years later when the voucher program was expanded to include religious schools.

When the voucher program first began, we conducted about 100 interviews with principals, teachers, parents, and students in 13 participating private schools.

As we all recall when the voucher program was started under Governor Daniels, the intent of the program allowed for students who were «stuck» in an underperforming public school the «choice» to attend a private or parochial school.

In Milwaukee, which, the report's author reminded us, has the nation's oldest voucher program, African American students rank second to last in eighth grade math scores and last in reading scores, significantly worse than when the voucher program began.

Looking at the graph below, you can see when the voucher program first started, most of the students receiving a scholarship previously attended public school, but nowadays, it's a coin flip.

The results of the ARIMA (1,0,1) projections indicated a higher - than - expected cat intake to shelters in Santa Clara County during the years when the voucher program was in effect, i.e., 1994 — 2005 (Fig. 5).

Not exact matches

When asked if the police department is taking another look at a voucher program in addition to de-clustering homeless sex offenders housing on the East End, Mr. Schneider said «everything is on the table.»

When we spoke with Vicki Been, who heads up the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which administers the Section 8 program, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600» from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

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.

When we spoke with HPD commissioner Vicki Been last month, she told us that there «were a very limited number of unattributed vouchers, about 600 ″ from recipients who had left the program or moved out of the area (the Section 8 waiting list has been closed for years).

«More remarkable,» writes Davis, «those growth rates include test scores from 2004 — 05, when 300 high - poverty children from failing District of Columbia public schools entered consortium schools through the new D.C. voucher program.»

In the Indiana study, the most rigorous program estimates come from an individual fixed - effects analysis, where the achievement gains of students while in the voucher program are compared to their achievement gains when not in the program.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

In fact, when Congress passed a private school voucher program for Washington, D.C., alongside new funding for the district and charter sectors, the overall reform plan was called the «three - sector approach.»

But the most telling comment of Mike's faulty thinking on national standards was when he asked:» Does Jay oppose voucher programs because they might get hijacked by shady for - profit providers who just want to make money off the backs of poor kids?»

The state voucher program served only 763 students and commanded little political support when it was struck down in 2006.

Unlike state - subsidized voucher programs, which are funded by collected tax revenues, this program bypasses state coffers by giving corporations a dollar - for - dollar tax break when they contribute to a scholarship funding organization.

The history of the MPCP illustrates how voucher programs can provide significant taxpayer savings when students voluntarily choose to attend schools that draw less on public funds than the schools they would otherwise attend.

When participants in Florida's McKay voucher program were surveyed, only 30 percent reported they had received all services required under federal law from their previous public school, while 86 percent reported their McKay school provided all the services they promised to provide.

When the Florida Senate took up a measure this month designed to protect voucher programs from legal challenges, the chamber couldn't have been more divided: The bill was defeated by just one vote.

Two decades ago, when Wisconsin's Legislature debated the proposed Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, opponents said there was no evidence that a voucher program would increase academic achieProgram, opponents said there was no evidence that a voucher program would increase academic achieprogram would increase academic achievement.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

But, even when they are considered together, those two programs are not as large as a hardly known, originally noncontroversial voucher innovation, the special education voucher.

More than 200 students had already begun the school year at religious schools, planning to use state vouchers for tuition, when the Wisconsin Supreme Court halted the program on Aug. 25 with a temporary injunction.

Some private - school advocates are urging Congressional supporters not to propose a voucher program as an amendment when a school - reform...

When Mr. Obama first moved to phase out the D.C. voucher program in 2009, his Education Department was in possession of a federal study showing that voucher recipients, who number more than 3,300, made gains in reading scores and didn't decline in math.

But when similar results emerge from the evaluations of school voucher programs in three very different cities, we can be fairly confident that the intervention is the main cause of the differences in achievement.

When asked to name a preferred private school, roughly half named independent private schools (the most popular being Worcester Academy and Milton Academy), with tuitions that eclipse the values of even the most generous school vouchers offered in public and private programs across the country.

The Supreme Court likely remained silent on this issue because of the limited range of impact created by voucher programs when juxtaposed with the Brown Court's broad goal of equal opportunities for all children.

When asked what the state could do to make the voucher programs better, Lawson said she's perplexed why fathers who have custody of a child have difficulty getting a voucher.

First, the latest IES evaluation of the D.C. school - voucher program, which showed that voucher users lost ground (compared with non-users) during their first year in private schools, when judged by test scores.

When respondents are told how well local students rank nationally, however, support for targeted voucher programs falls to 34 percent.

Further, as occurred last year in Wisconsin, when opponents of school reform control the executive and legislative branches, initiatives such as Milwaukee's voucher program encounter the double - whammy of less funding and a public school regulatory model.

The main findings were not affected when the study estimated different kinds of models and made the sample larger by including students that became eligible for a voucher in any year after the program initially started in 2007.

When asked about the design of a school voucher program, 85 percent of Americans support allowing parents using vouchers to choose both religious and nonreligious private schools, a practice the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in 2002.

In Florida they won a victory early in 2006 when that state's supreme court struck down a voucher program on the grounds that the constitutional command of a «uniform... system of free public schools» prohibited any alternative.

When told that some people say that a universal program «would introduce much needed competition to the public school system,» overall support for vouchers increases by just a few percentage points.

Although we have much to discover about the impacts of statewide voucher programs, we are beginning to understand what policymakers and educators should consider when implementing new ones.

And when told that some people say that a universal program «would improve the educational opportunities available to the poor,» overall support for vouchers does not change at all (Q. 12b - d).

Similarly, advocates (present company included) have treated voucher programs as interchangeable when talking about their effects, even though they differ in meaningful ways.

Pence won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap, which was previously $ 4,800, on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

She makes clear that she does not understand the purpose of profit when she scoffs about voucher programs and charter schools that «divert... taxes to pay profits to investors» and «turn a profit off their children, in order to reward their shareholders.»

We asked them also to survey private schools in communities served by four of the country's most prominent voucher programs (city - specific programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland, statewide programs in Ohio and Indiana) to ascertain how both participating and non-participating schools view those programs and their regulations and how heavily they weigh program requirements (and other constraints) when deciding whether to sign up for and accept the programs» students.

When studying voucher or other school choice programs, for example, we have observed modest test score benefits for participants, but fairly large attainment benefits.

Pence has won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap (previously $ 4,800) on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

As well, in 2004 the Court showed its solicitude for the interests of the educational establishment when it struck down Colorado's voucher program.