Sentence examples for Voucher law from inspiring English sources

The parents and teachers who took on the voucher law had become intimately familiar with these groups.

Last year, with the support of Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, the Legislature enacted a voucher law that provided private school tuition payments in the worst-performing schools.

A Denver judge struck down Colorado's new school voucher law yesterday, ruling that it violated the state's Constitution by stripping local school boards of their control over education.

Arizona's state supreme court declared an earlier voucher law unconstitutional in 2009 because it earmarked state money for private and religious schools.

The Koch network is likely to spend heavily to support the voucher law, setting up a battle royal with the labor movement.

The ruling today comes two months after the United States Supreme Court upheld a voucher law in Ohio under the more lenient standards of the United States Constitution's establishment clause.

On the other hand, if the court did approve it, it doesn't necessarily mean you're going to have 50 states with voucher laws, either.

Three states Ohio, Wisconsin and Florida have since passed voucher laws enabling some 12,000 children to use public funds for private or parochial school tuition.

As People For the American Way noted in a report on her nomination, DeVos and her allies have poured millions of dollars into hard-ball politics at the state level to purchase the kind of voucher laws that public education opponents have dreamed about for decades.

In 2007, Utah voters voted 62% to 38% to repeal a vouchers law.

With groups funded by the Koch brothers and DeVos nudging things along, Arizona lawmakers enacted the nation's broadest school vouchers law, state-funded vouchers that are supposed to give parents more school choice and can be spent on private or religiously affiliated schools.