Sunday, April 8, 2012

School vouchers

  • WASHINGTON -- Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • As the Department of Education writes voucher rules, it needs to make sure that the private schools in the program are academically sound and that there is a mechanism for cutting off vouchers to a school if its scholarship students dont thrive.
  • (nola.com)
  • Last week the Senate approved bills that reduced tenure protection for teachers, expanded school-choice vouchers to a statewide program and made it easier to crank up charter schools.
  • (Shreveport Times)
  • BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana House of Representatives, after more than 12 hours of debate Thursday, approved a 45-page bill establishing a statewide school voucher plan.
  • (Alexandria Daily Town Talk)
  • School vouchers have stalled in the Pennsylvania legislature, and President Obamas budget proposes to end the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows children from low-income families to attend private schools with government aid.
  • (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Education funding, accountability and the expansion of private school vouchers are hot button issues that both sides share deep disagreements.
  • (Oshkosh Northwestern)
  • MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that limits expansion of Wisconsins school voucher program. The voucher program subsidizes private education for students in struggling school districts.
  • (Herald Times Reporter)
  • BATON ROUGE --The Louisiana Senate on Wednesday night approved legislation establishing statewide private and parochial school vouchers and a new process for setting up charter schools.
  • (Alexandria Daily Town Talk)
  • School vouchers were ruled unconstitutional yesterday by a district judge in Tulsa, KWTV Channel 9 News in Oklahoma City is reporting today.
  • (Examiner)
  • The problem is they got it all wrong. The expansion of vouchers will come at the expense of local public school districts, which already operate with one of the lowest per-pupil funding formulas in the country.
  • (nola.com)

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