Sentences with phrase «with voucher programs»

We have decades of experience with voucher programs in Milwaukee and Cleveland.

Experience with voucher programs suggests that students with middle and upper class backgrounds are more likely to benefit from these programs than those who live in poverty.

Other critics have been vocal because of the lack of support from the NEA towards policies dealing with voucher programs, merit pay, and the removal of «bad» teachers.

If the lack of accountability is reformers» beef with voucher programs, that concern has been alleviated, at least in several states.

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

(Several states with voucher programs have done more by way of obligating voucher - aided schools to participate in state assessments.)

Jane Corwin is a Trojan Horse candidate for the GOP, who will be a reliable vote to gut Medicare and repalce it with a voucher program that would not even begin to cover any stay in the ER for anything worse than a hangnail.

In particular, a section of the budget proposed by Wisconsin Congressman and Vice Presidential Candidate Paul Ryan which would, over time replace the government - run Medicare program for senior citizens with a voucher program which would offer them money to buy insurance from the private sector.

They're proposing to replace them with a voucher program where you'd give a chit to any worker who could document that he or she was down there and let them go to their private doctor in New Jersey, Ohio, or Florida — wherever they happened to live.

When school choice programs are not designed to focus on quality school options, student achievement will not improve and may even regress as has been documented in Louisiana with their voucher program.

«The problem with the voucher program is that it cherry - picks which students it's going to take,» said Rep. Cory Mason, D - Racine.

Over the years, we've had several expensive and negative experiences with the voucher program occupants and in the last month, one of our section 8 tenants has moved out.

Not exact matches

Our partnership with SHA will be in collaboration with a pilot program in Seattle to supplement housing vouchers to get families into better neighborhoods so that their children can experience more long - term success.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Most Americans assume that the separation of church and state is a fundamental principle deeply rooted in American constitutionalism; that the First Amendment was intended to ensure that government does not involve itself with religion (and vice versa); and that contemporary debates over such vexing issues as school prayer, voucher programs, government funding of faith - based organizations, and the rights of religious minorities represent ongoing attempts to realize the separation intended by the Founders and like - minded early Americans.

In states with voucher or tuition tax credit or educational savings plan programs, schools that resist the sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) agenda could be ruled ineligible.

Sonoma County Winegrowers Launch Grant Program to Help Support Sustainability Certification The organization is offering 250 vouchers, each worth $ 400, to be used by their grower members to offset the costs associated with completing certification...

Having read Dr Rosina's book and had many conversations with her, I can vouch for the thorough research that has gone into this program.

Heading into the 2010 election, some Orthodox leaders openly urged voters in the community to support Donovan as a way of currying favor with the mayor to ensure that the voucher program is renewed, sources said.

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).

A man who was very close to being homeless came to me with tears in his eyes to thank me for a program that provides him with a voucher to subsidize his rent.

Yet plenty of opposition remains in Mr. Heastie's Assembly, where Democrats aligned with the teachers» unions are unwilling to back a bill they see a backdoor vouchers program.

Asked for confirmation of this description, Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, who vouched for Silver this week until the bitter end, said, «I really don't remember any particular remarks, but with his grumbly voice and deadpan manner, he was always the funniest person on the program.»

In addition to enacting the voucher program, the conservative - led board ended the district's collective bargaining agreement with the local teachers union and set up a performance - based salary schedule for teachers.

[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.

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).

Negotiating with the Obama administration in 2009 on the «cash for clunkers» program, which gave Americans vouchers to trade in their old, gas - guzzling vehicles for new, efficient models.

Recertification voucher promotions override all other discount programs and may not be used in conjunction with other discounts.

High - quality evaluations of charter and voucher programs demonstrate greater parental satisfaction, along with higher graduation rates, often at lower overall taxpayer cost.

JB: Florida's universal preschool policy is actually the largest voucher program in the nation, with about 80 percent of eligible kids participating.

According to data from the Child Care and Census Bureaus, in 2005 approximately 4 percent of all families with children age 12 and under benefited from $ 9 billion in vouchers through the Child Care and Development Fund and $ 3 billion in subsidies provided by the federal Temporary Aid to Needy Families program.

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.

Paul E. Peterson talks with Anna Egalite of N.C. State about her new study looking at why some private schools do and others don't participate in North Carolina's means - tested voucher program and also at how families make the decision about whether or not to use a school voucher.

With an RCT design, a group of students who all qualify for a voucher program and whose parents are equally motivated to exercise private school choice, participate in a lottery.

Private schools in the Milwaukee voucher program are starting to take stock of the double - whammy: higher costs to comply with new regulations at the same time that their financial support is declining.

With the passage of the federal budget, the school voucher program in Washington, D.C. has been spared from the chopping block.

The second type is worded to suggest that vouchers would expand choices for parents generally and that parents with children in public schools would be part of the program.

From the 1970s until 1991, PDK measured voucher support with a survey item that defined vouchers as a government - funded program allowing parents to choose among public, private, and parochial schools.

While to date, voucher programs have been restricted to low - income students, the Indiana program is the first to provide vouchers on a sliding scale for middle - class families with incomes up to $ 63,964.

School vouchers provide funds to parents to enable them to enroll their children in private schools and, as a result, are one of the most controversial education reforms in the United States (to see an interview with Patrick Wolf about his evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program and about its likely future please click here).

In 2009 - 10, the second year of the voucher program, 1,324 New Orleans students attended 31 private schools using vouchers with a maximum value of over $ 7,000.

The new research is significant in that it affords an unusual opportunity to obtain high quality information on the participation rate in school voucher programs by students with disabilities.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Matt Chingos, one of the authors of the study, talks with Marty West about how the Florida Tax Credit scholarship program works, how the effects of the program were studied, and how his findings fit in with those of other studies of voucher and tax credit programs.

A proposed $ 5 million voucher program for military families that have children with special education needs is part of the defense - spending bill that Congress will take up in its post-election lame - duck session.

It is sometimes argued, particularly by critics of voucher programs, that private schools exclude most students with disabilities.

Along with Indiana, which created the nation's most expansive voucher program earlier this year, almost a dozen states have in 2011 enacted legislation that will create, expand, or restore school choice programs.

Florida's choice strategy also included the creation of the nation's largest voucher program — the McKay Scholarship Program — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged chprogram — the McKay Scholarship Program — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged chProgram — for students with disabilities and the «Step Up for Students» tax credit for economically disadvantaged children.

Equally uncharacteristic was litigation involving voucher programs for students with special needs and those in foster care.

Still, the value of tax - credit programs in states with strong constitutional prohibitions on aid to religious schools was confirmed by the near - simultaneous invalidation of Arizona's new voucher programs.