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Private School Vouchers Equal PrivatizationThis school year, the private school voucher program grew from roughly 24,000 students to more than 90,000, and the final numbers won’t be known until sometime in July. Most of the families taking the vouchers, according to media reports, are well...
Learn more about the debate behind private school vouchers and whether they are a viable public school alternative for your child.
WASHINGTON —Private school vouchers and other school choice initiatives would expand under an order coming from President Trump telling government agencies to repurpose federal dollars. The Education Department is being told to use discretionary money to prioritize school choice p...
“Voucher opponents hope that our left-leaning state Supreme Court will do what the court wouldn’t in 2015 — use an elastic interpretation of the state constitution to eliminate the state’s private school scholarship program for low-income children,” Stoops said. The lawsuit comes as ...
In Texas, school choice remains a hot-button issue, and anew pollhas stirred up plenty of conversation. According to a survey of 1,275 likely Texas voters byUnified for Texas WorkersandZ to A Research, 65 percent oppose a private school voucher program that would use taxpayer dollars to fund...
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama senators on Tuesday advanced an expansion of a state program that provides scholarships fueled by state tax credits for students to attend private K-12 schools.
So how do students from low-income families who attend a private school perform? Megan Austin, a principal researcher at the American Institutes for Research, looked at the success of students who participated in Indiana’s publicly funded private school voucher program, which is aimed at students...
But that first-ever "voucher" program is opposed by Democrats, teachers' unions and school boards. Shapiro has remained out of sight in the Capitol, but in a statement said he would issue a line-item veto of the $100 million program should the House otherwise pass the Senate's $45 ...
Public schools are primarily supported by taxpayers. However, when a public school loses a student to a voucher program, it loses thousands of dollars that help pay for teachers and classroom costs. In this way, school vouchers take money away from public schools in order to help students com...