Overall, we find no significant effects of the offer of a school voucher on college enrollment.
House Republicans previously authorized funding for a Washington-based school voucher program championed by House Speaker John Boehner and one Obama sought to eliminate.
In addition to union reform, Mr. Walker and his allies in the legislature passed a statewide school voucher program, eased business regulation, and enacted tort reform.
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School voucher programs have strong support from conservative Republicans, who say they offer families more choices and will boost education by giving public schools greater incentive to improve.
Attitudes became considerably more positive after we arrived in Milwaukee and discovered that its school voucher and choice programs were the product of local African-American parents and educators fed up with failing schools.
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By a 5-to-2 decision the Sunshine State's highest tribunal ruled unconstitutional the state's Opportunity Scholarship school voucher program that allowed parents to pull their kids out of failing public schools and place them in alternative schools, including private ones.
This could have big implications for the growing but controversial school-voucher movement.
Mr Jindal apparently promised not to touch the pay rise if lawmakers supported a bill, dear to his heart, that created a school-voucher programme for impoverished New Orleanians.
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He proposed individual job-training accounts and a school-voucher programme.
So far, the court has ducked the key issue: whether school-voucher plans which allow parents to use state-funded vouchers to send their children to private religious schools breach the separation of church and state enshrined in the first amendment.
In fact, any two qualified teachers can start such a school and get such voucher payments for however many pupils they manage to attract.
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Indiana lawmakers have been looking this year to expand their program further, introducing a bill to waive a requirement that students attend at least one year of public school before becoming eligible for a voucher.
Drawing on his experience as an educator and his time with the Department of Education, Tancredo believes that the federal government's involvement in education should be limited, encouraging local solutions and a "no-strings" voucher system to promote school choice.
This is followed by a push to reform public school systems by introducing more charters, voucher programs, or virtual schools.
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Since the end of the 1998 school year, eight states have approved voucher schemes which have now have reached the courts.
During his tenure voters have approved tax increases for an expansion of the light-rail transport system (2004), a new justice centre (2005), and a voucher programme for pre-school education (2006).
While the voucher movement has largely failed, the charter school movement has a great deal of momentum.
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He says that in Japan education ceases to be compulsory at 14, although most students opt to stay on under an indirect voucher plan whereby government aid is channeled to the school on the basis of enrollment.
Chile inherited from the dictatorship a voucher system under which the government pays money to the school of the parents' choice.
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Milwaukee also suggests vouchers can be a competitive spur: in April, supporters of the city's voucher programme, led by Mr Gardner, won a bitter election to seats on the school board.
Cleveland's voucher scheme has led to the founding of new schools, free from the dead hand of school-board bureaucracy, offering poor families a real increase in choice (see article).
Voucher plans will destroy public schools, while not providing enough money for ordinary Americans to afford a private school, thus obliterating any choice at all.
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