The oldest continuing school voucher programs existing today in the United States are the Town Tuitioning programs in Vermont and Maine, beginning in 1869 and 1873 respectively.

* School vouchers are subsidies given directly to parents for tuition at any school ( there is technically no such thing as a " voucher school ").

Proponents assert that school voucher and education tax credit systems promote free market competition among both private and public schools.

The argument that school vouchers increases quality and efficiencies in schools forced to compete is supported by studies such as " When Schools Compete: The Effects of Vouchers on Florida Public School Achievement " ( Manhattan Institute for Policy Research's, 2003 ), which concluded that public schools located near private schools that were eligible to accept voucher students made significantly more improvements than did similar schools not located near eligible private schools.

The Foundation for Educational Choice alleges that a school voucher plan " embodies exactly the same principle as the GI bills that provide for educational benefits to military veterans.

The veteran gets a voucher good only for educational expense and he is completely free to choose the school at which he uses it, provided that it satisfies certain standards.

Some proponents of school vouchers, including the Sutherland Institute and many supporters of the Utah voucher effort, see it as a remedy for the negative cultural impact caused by under-performing public schools, which falls disproportionately on demographic minorities.

Proponents of a voucher system are encouraged by private school sector growth as it is their view that private schools are typically more efficient at achieving results at a much lower per pupil cost when compared to public schools.

In the United States, public school teacher unions, most notably the National Education Association ( the largest labor union in the USA ), argue against the idea of school vouchers for concern that it would erode educational standards and reduce funding, and that giving money to parents who choose to send their child to a religious or other school is unconstitutional ; however, the latter issue has been struck down by the Supreme Court case Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, which upheld Ohio's voucher plan in a 5-4 ruling.

Thus, it has been argued that a voucher system would lead students who do not belong to a preferred religious or ethnic group, or those with disabilities, to become concentrated within the public school system.

Another argument against the implementation of a school voucher system is its lack of accountability to the taxpayer.

In Sweden, the 1991-1994 centre-right government under Carl Bildt introduced a voucher system at primary and secondary school level, enabling free choice among public and charter schools ( friskolor ) in the community.

The voucher is ' virtual ' and worth the average cost for a place at a public school.

Any voucher proposals in the Netherlands, and countries with similar systems such as Belgium, are complicated by the historical background of the " school struggle ".

In fact, if the voucher program alone were considered a school district, it would mark the sixth-largest district in Wisconsin.

St. Anthony Catholic School, located on Milwaukee's south side, boasts 966 voucher students, meaning that it very likely receives more public money for general school support of a parochial elementary or high school than any before it in American history.

Very likely it will also include a recognition that the work we are reading reflects or `` belongs to '' some way of thought labelled as a `` school '' or an `` -ism '', i.e. a complex or `` syndrome '' of ideas occurring together with sufficient prominence to warrant identification.

If they also defeat the school bill, the GOP task force won't have much research to do.

The article also said that a person had to be 18 years old or over, and must not be going to high school to attend these classes.

It should also make him desire to participate actively in civic, school and religious life of the community so that that phase of Newark will live up to the challenge presented by this exhibit.

A student who while in attendance at Carleton College participates in an athletic contest during the school year, other than that sponsored by the College, shall be permanently ineligible to participate in intercollegiate athletics at Carleton College and will also face permanent suspension from the institution.

And dancing school, so helpful in artistic and psychological development, also contributes to this essential early training -- and can contribute even more.

but sometimes arrangements also are made for high school students to attend, and evening extension courses also may be conducted.

Desegregation can also result from additional suits brought by Negro plaintiffs against school boards in Newport News, Fairfax County, Arlington County, and Norfolk.

The suburban high school, it is worth noting, also is not a widely comprehensive high school because of the absence of vocational programs.

Masu is also teaching in a municipally-sponsored school for Japanese widows in Tokyo.

The defendant, William L. Stickney 3, 23, of 3211 Park pl., Evanston, who pleaded guilty to reckless driving, also was ordered by Judge James Corcoran to attend the Evanston traffic school each Tuesday night for one month.

A Sterling Township family of six surviving children, whose mother died yesterday as the aftermath to a fire that also killed one of the children, found today they had the help of hundreds of neighbors and school friends.

Millie Jansen, high school senior from Verboort, had the championship dollar dinner, and Jody Jaross of Hillsboro also won a blue ribbon.

A young man doesn't like to be driven up in front of a school in a car driven by a girl who isn't even in a higher class than he is, and is also a girl.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

He also was a promoter of the New Text school, which considered Confucius as a divine figure and a spiritual ruler of China, who foresaw and started the evolution of the world towards the Universal Peace.

The school, considered one of the first formal adult education centers in America, was also attended by foreign scholars.

Many countries, including some US states, also permit the use of less severe corporal punishment for children in school.

The main purpose of this work is to give a general account of Aristotelian cosmology and metaphysics, but it also has a polemical tone, and it may be directed at rival views within the Peripatetic school.

c. 60 BC ) was a Greek philosopher from Rhodes who was also the eleventh scholarch of the Peripatetic school.

Note the confident local allusion in 19: 9 to " the school of Tyrannus " and in 19: 33 to " Alexander "; also the very minute topography in 20: 13 – 15.

The University was also advised to unbundle its tuition structure so that the cost of an Acadia education is more detailed and students can understand how their investment in the future of the school is allotted.

Scarlatti's style, however, is more than a transitional element in Western music ; like most of his Naples colleagues he shows an almost modern understanding of the psychology of modulation and also frequently makes use of the ever-changing phrase lengths so typical of the Napoli school.

pioneers who looked like off-duty gardeners even at parent-teacher conferences and who never called the school principal `` Mister ''.

In a sense almost all high school and college courses could be considered as vocational to the extent that later in life the student in his vocation ( which may be a profession ) will be called upon to use some of the skills developed and the competence obtained.

The following morning Mr. Morikawa called for me, and we went to visit schools -- kindergarten, middle-school, elementary school, and high school -- Mr. Yoshimoto's school.

These " conversations " as he called them, were more or less informal talks on a great range of topics, spiritual, aesthetic and practical, in which he emphasized the ideas of the school of American Transcendentalists led by Emerson, who was always his supporter and discreet admirer.

In 1966, Morita wrote a book called Gakureki Muyō Ron ( 学歴無用論, Never Mind School Records ), where he stresses that school records are not important to success or one's business skills.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

A service called “ Vespers ,” presented occasionally throughout the school year, combines music, speech, and drama.

Early struggles were against school segregation, but the Mexican-American cause, or " La Causa " as it was called, soon came under the banner of the United Farm Workers and César Chávez.

The 2000 film Bring It On, about a San Diego high school cheerleading squad called " The Toros ", starred real-life former cheerleader Kirsten Dunst.

( Colloquially, the school name is called " big name " ( 大名 ), whereas the " milk name " is known as the " small name " ( 小名 ).

A school might have one space called a campus, one called a field, and another called a yard.

A group of dolphins is called a " school " or a " pod ".

Higher education, also called tertiary, third stage, or post secondary education, is the non-compulsory educational level that follows the completion of a school providing a secondary education, such as a high school or secondary school.

In the U. S. and Canada, training for board certification in internal medicine, pediatrics, or gynecology after medical school is called residency.

Modern school textbooks often define separate figures called lines ( infinite ), rays ( semi-infinite ), and line segments ( of finite length ).

On 14 May 1796, Jenner tested his hypothesis by inoculating James Phipps, a boy eight years old ( the son of Jenner's gardener ), with pus scraped from the cowpox blisters on the hands of Sarah Nelmes, a milkmaid who had caught cowpox from a cow called Blossom, whose hide now hangs on the wall of the St George's medical school library ( now in Tooting ).

This school was later called the Royal Free Hospital of Medicine, which later became part of what is now the medical school of University College London.