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Books on: school voucher

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Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice

Book by Clint Bolick; Cato Institute, 2003

Subjects:

Educational Vouchers--Law And Legislation--United States, School Choice--Law And Legislation--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...scholarship, and mailed to the school selected by the parents. Simmons...religion is created by the School Voucher Program is indirect, depending...students, not an entitlement to schools. Not a single dollar crosses the threshold of a religious school unless a parent foregoes public...
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The Case against School Vouchers

Book by Edd Doerr, Albert J. Menendez, John M. Swomley; Prometheus Books, 1996

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Educational Vouchers--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...year per public school student is around...support of nonpublic schools could cost as much...and promoters of voucher plans are interested...funding for nonpublic schools, there is an enormous...unavoidable question of school transportation...five miles from school, 16 percent lived...miles away. 2 If a voucher or other "choice...only to public schools, transportation...
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The Great School Debate: Choice, Vouchers, and Charters

Book by Thomas L. Good, Jennifer S. Braden; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000

Subjects:

Charter Schools--United States, Education--United States--Evaluation, Educational Vouchers--United States, Privatization In Education--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...students in choice schools in their third...the nations first school-voucher program here...publicly financed vouchers of merely $5...private or parochial schools however, there...students who attend voucher schools do better...attend regular schools . 45 Some, like...Riverside High School in Milwaukee...
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Vouchers within Reason: A Child-Centered Approach to Education Reform

Book by James G. Dwyer; Cornell University Press, 2002

Subjects:

Educational Vouchers--Law And Legislation--United States, Educational Vouchers--United States, School Choice--United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

1 Vouchers and Adult-Centered Legal Reasoning The school voucher debate serves in this...religious and nonreligious schools has encouraged legislators...Publicly financed voucher programs now exist...include religious schools among the recipients of vouchers. Vermont and Maine also have voucher programs, but they...and Maine authorize school districts that do...
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The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program

Book by John F. Witte; Princeton University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Education, Urban--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Case Studies, Educational Vouchers--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Case Studies, School Choice--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--Case Studies

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...want to support universal vouchers on different grounds than...expected to attend private schools are most likely to choose and be admitted to private schools. Thus, in the absence of...likely to choose Catholic schools, and their baptismal records...story of the first private school voucher program in the United States...

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Journal Articles on: school voucher

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School Voucher Programs: What the Research Says about Parental School Choice

Journal article by Patrick J. Wolf; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008

Subjects:

Education policy, Educational vouchers, Performance evaluation, Research, School choice, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the students are not voucher users, in order to...likely effects of voucher programs. As discussed...who attend private schools using vouchers are, on average...the typical public school student and thus dramatically...with their childs school if they have been given a voucher, we do not yet know...satisfied. The private schools that parents select using vouchers might be more effective...
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Private Voucher Schools and the First Amendment Right to Discriminate

Journal article by Michael Kavey; Yale Law Journal, Vol. 113, 2003

Subjects:

Church and state--Case notes, Discrimination in education--Case notes, Educational vouchers--Case notes, Freedom of religion--Case notes, Freedom of speech--Case notes, Private schools--Case notes, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris--536 U.S. 639 (2002)

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...of religious schools in a state school voucher program did not...questions about vouchers that linger in...nonpublic Kansas school of choice." (22) Opposition to vouchers is driven not...provisions from voucher proposals, but...that private schools would be constitutionally...coalitions in the voucher movement, see...Political Economy of School Choice, 111...TERRY M. MOE, SCHOOLS, VOUCHERS, AND THE AMERICAN...
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The Effects of Vouchers and Private Schools in Improving Academic Achievement: a Critique of Advocacy Research

Journal article by Christopher Lubienski, Peter Weitzel; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008

Subjects:

Academic achievement, Education policy, Education reform, Educational vouchers, Private schools, School choice, United States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...funds with them, voucher programs, in theory...public and private schools to improve. Although charter schools and open enrollment...competitive pressures, many school reformers believe vouchers are the best method...to attend private schools using vouchers were compared to non...Since the private school voucher students had, by...
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School Vouchers, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Williams, and Protecting the Faithful: Warnings from the Eighteenth Century and the Seventeenth Century on the Danger of Establishments to Religious Communities

Journal article by Paul Finkelman; Brigham Young University Law Review, Vol. 2008, 2008

Subjects:

Church & state, Educational vouchers, Private schools, School choice, United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...parents. Thus, a voucher system would leave the public schools to educate those...resources. Nor do school vouchers deal very well...If we gave school vouchers to all children...elite private schools because the voucher would not be...to accredited schools. Additionally, in an ideal voucher program, every school would have to...have to accept vouchers. For children...
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The Milwaukee School Voucher Initiative: Impact on Black Students

Journal article by Walter C. Farrell Jr., Jackolyn Mathews; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 75, 2006

Subjects:

Black students, College students, Educational vouchers, Legislation, No Child Left Behind Act 2001-US, Private schools, Public schools, School systems, State government, Urban areas

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...private sector push for vouchers, efforts to outsource...political debates over school vouchers, research on voucher schools has not produced convincing...126 schools. Since vouchers are funded on a prorated...by all Wisconsin school districts, the cost to the Milwaukee Public Schools, which is 50% of...is: how well are voucher programs performing...

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Magazine Articles on: school voucher

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Do School Vouchers Improve Student Performance?

Magazine article by Martin Carnoy; The American Prospect, Vol. 12, January 1, 2001

Subjects:

Bush, George W.--Social policy, Education--Education, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, Private schools--Finance, United States--Social policy

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the problem, voucher advocates have...prove that private schools supported by public...most at risk of school failure--whether because vouchers are a route to...legislature expanded the voucher program to 15...included religious schools. The Wisconsin...legislation. By the school year 2001-02...children will use vouchers at more than 100...religious private schools. No one knows whether voucher students are performing...
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VOUCHER VOLLEY: Maine Supreme Court Rules against Private School Vouchers, but Bush Plan Passes in Florida

Magazine article by Steve Benen; Church & State, Vol. 52, June 1999

Subjects:

Bush, Jeb--Social policy, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, Florida--Schools

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...against private school vouchers, but Bush plan passes...span, opponents of school vouchers enjoyed one of their...Supreme Court ruled that voucher funding of religious schools is unconstitutional...eloquent speeches against vouchers ultimately voted for...the state, but in schools that receive an F...spend a $4,000 voucher at any private school that accepts them...
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School Vouchers Grounded: Ohio Appellate Court Says Cleveland 'Pilot Scholarship' Program Won't Fly

Magazine article by Joseph L. Conn; Church & State, Vol. 50, June 1997

Subjects:

Educational vouchers--Laws, regulations, etc., Schools--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...institutions. The Cleveland voucher pilot, the panel...no suburban public schools signed up for the...opportunity to use their vouchers for secular public...2,500 private school scholarships are five...has the religious school voucher movement on the defensive...ardent boosters of vouchers and other forms of aid to private schools. At the Council for...for a large-scale voucher experiment that includes...
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School Voucher Volley: Frustrated by a Lukewarm Reception from Congress, Advocates of Tax Aid to Religious Schools Pass Collection Plates in the States

Magazine article by Rob Boston; Church & State, Vol. 62, March 2009

Subjects:

Church schools--Finance, Church schools--Taxation, Education--Finance, Education--Management, Educational finance--Management, Educational vouchers--Planning, Federal aid to education--Evaluation, Government aid to education--Evaluation, Parochial schools--Finance, Parochial schools--Taxation, Tax policy--Interpretation and construction

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...introduce a private-school voucher bill in the legislature...weakened our public schools," Brown said...with universal vouchers." Johnson...would set up a voucher plan for students...wide-ranging "school choice" program...includes private schools and home schooling...legislation would offer vouchers to students who...harassment in public schools. Under S. 30...Commission, the public school would have to...
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Voucher Revival: Thanks to a Misguided Supreme Court Decision and Wealthy Right-Wing Foundations, the School Voucher Movement Is under Way Again

Magazine article by Jeremy Leaming; Church & State, Vol. 56, February 2003

Subjects:

Church schools--Finance, Church schools--Political aspects, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, Federal aid to private schools--Laws, regulations, etc., United States--Social policy

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Entire Library

...on behalf of voucher programs. These...undercut the public school system and move...funded private schools. For example...philosophies, support vouchers to bring a free...and Floridas School Choice Fund...already has a voucher proposal before...in "failing schools" to receive vouchers for private schools...threatening than vouchers, they wind up...supporting religious schools with taxes...opportunities for school choice legislatively...opportunity for voucher promotion looks...

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Newspaper Articles on: school voucher

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School Vouchers at Risk; Low-Income D.C. Students May Lose Out

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), November 30, 2009

Subjects:

Barry, Marion S.--Political activity, Educational vouchers--Political aspects, Elementary school students--Political aspects, Political parties

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...that face our public school system, where the...March. D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Michelle...once saying that vouchers wont solve all the...children in the bleakest schools should have options...Democrats fissure begins. Voucher supporters speak often...acknowledging troubled school systems. Mr. Chavous...Barry in a rally for vouchers outside the U.S...
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Fenty Backs School Vouchers

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 17, 2009

Subjects:

Educational vouchers--Laws, regulations and rules, Pelosi, Nancy, Scholarships (Financial aid)--Laws, regulations and rules, Scholarships--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Fenty Backs School Vouchers. Byline: THE WASHINGTON...Scholarship Program, the voucher program for 1,700...to attend private schools Fenty pushes for school vouchers, Page 1, Friday...Districts public schools is false. Funds...
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School Vouchers: Sweden's Free-Market Success Story

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 10, 2009

Subjects:

Elementary school students

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...newly eligible for a voucher, were told that they...up their private-school acceptances and go...their failing public schools. No, I dont make...Sweden get education vouchers. It seems that the...Sweden introduced school vouchers throughout the country...face in our public schools. Under the program...children can use a voucher to go to either public...
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Indiana Vouchers Prompt School Shift

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 29, 2011

Subjects:

School enrollment

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...of the 240 private schools that have signed up for the voucher program are secular...of Hungary Catholic School in South Bend is among...the benefits of the vouchers. Just two years ago...students receiving vouchers have used them to attend Catholic schools, said Chad Aldis, executive director of School Choice Ohio. That...a price to public schools, which say the voucher program siphons off...
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School Vouchers Rejected despite Suburban Support

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), May 6, 2010

Subjects:

Chicago, Illinois. Public Schools

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

School Vouchers Rejected despite Suburban...An experimental voucher program for Chicago Public Schools was shot down in the...students at failing public schools arent going to be adopted...support a religious school. The proposal would have the state issue vouchers to elementary and middle...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: school voucher

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School Vouchers

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...schools. The idea behind school vouchers is to give parents a wider...competition from private schools will pressure public schools into providing a better...their students. The first school-voucher program instituted in the...
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Church and State

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...education in tax-supported schools and public aid to parochial schools. By the end of 1999 federal...the politically fashionable school vouchers , and one had held that when a voucher system resulted in almost...recipients attending religious schools instead of public schools...

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