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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Vouchers"”.
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The effects of charter schools and educational vouchers on students
… reforms, charter schools and educational vouchers, have led to better student outcomes for both the students who participate them and for students in public schools around them. In Chapter l, I estimate the effects of Michigan charter schools on student achievement for both the students …
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The Competitive Effect of Vouchers on the Performance of Traditional Public Schools in Hamilton County, Ohio
… effect that educational choice, in the form of vouchers, is having on the performance of traditional public schools in Hamilton County, Ohio. The threat of losing students to vouchers creates a sense of competition for students, and ultimately the dollars that are attached to them. This …
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In a fiscally-constrained legislative environment, are project-based Section 8 Vouchers and overlooked vehicle for affordable housing production?
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2004.
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Double-dipping or lagniappe? : a study on the use of tenant-based vouchers in low-income housing tax credit developments in New Orleans, Louisiana
… forms: tenants received portable Housing Choice Vouchers and developers built new housing subsidized by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). Now, New Orleans has over 18,000 voucher households and approximately 10,000 LIHTC units. While this might appear to add up to 28,000 affordable …
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Analysis of school choice programs and corresponding evaluations for policy development : New York, Cleveland, Florida, and Milwaukee
… School choice, in the form of publicly funded vouchers for low-income students, has caused significant debate as a form of education reform. Proponents argue that vouchers will induce competition between schools, help low-income students obtain a better education, and increase parental …
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HUD-VASH Efficiency and Effectiveness: Homelessness and Veterans' Housing Policy
… explores why federal funding targeted for vouchers for homeless veterans in the HUD-Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program (HUD-VASH) declined between 2009 and 2024. It compares funding for the expansion of the veteran homelessness program and the use of that funding for housing …
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Whose Choice Is It Really?: The Impact of Property Profitability, Owner Strategies, & Perceived Majority Tenant Prejudices on Housing Choice Voucher Acceptance
… Housing Choice Voucher program. Housing choice vouchers provide tenant-based rental assistance to low-income families so that they can have greater opportunities to select apartments and locations than under other rental housing assistance programs. Vouchers provide a renter with more location, …
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Choice in education: A controversy of paradigm significance
School vouchers.
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Choice in education: A controversy of paradigm significance
School vouchers.
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A realist investigation of the impact of Healthy Start on the diets of low-income pregnant women in the UK
… women and young children. Eligible women receive vouchers worth £3.10 per week, which can be exchanged for fruit and vegetables, plain cow’s milk or infant formula. There has been no robust evaluation of the impact of Healthy Start on nutritional outcomes since its introduction in 2006. Therefore, …
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Title : community integration among formerly homeless veterans
… The program functions under two types of housing vouchers: vouchers used in buildings designated for persons with subsidized housing (project-based) and vouchers used for market rate rentals in the community (tenant-based). HUD-VASH is the largest permanent supportive housing (PSH) program in the …
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The Vascular Flora Of The Red River Gorge In Powell, Menifee, And Wolfe Counties Kentucky
… fall of 2016 and the summer of 2018. Additional vouchers donated by Dr. Ross C. Clark and the Stanton Ranger District office, as well as vouchers deposited at regional herbaria were used to complete this flora. This project utilized 3021 vouchers from 1940-2018, and documented 1023 taxa, …
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Workload analysis and scheduling policies for a document processing centre
… it has been found that the stage that the issue vouchers have to be generated and printed out is the bottleneck in the entire process flow. Some recommendations have been proposed to alleviate the problem. The second part of this thesis focuses on the reasons why scheduling rules should be …
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Opportunity Hoarding Through Arizona’s Voucher Expansion of 2022
Without clear evidence that school choice and vouchers increase educational opportunities for students of all populations, including those of racially minoritized populations, privatization policies continue the status quo of unequal educational opportunities. Arizona’s 2022 universal expansion of …
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Addressing the Needs of Patients with Rare Diseases in Canada: An Evaluation of Orphan Drug Incentives
… market exclusivity, priority review vouchers, and a tax credit for orphan drug development are evaluated. This thesis is primarily informed by the literature about how orphan drug incentives operate in the United States. Admittedly, there is controversy about whether orphan drug …
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Connections Matter: Implicit infrastructures and Electricity Access in Witsand, Cape Town
… recharging with cheaper black market electricity vouchers. These practices require residents to circumvent Eskom's vouchers and prepaid meters in order to adapt Eskom electricity to their lived realities. In a context where Eskom electricity provision is sometimes absent, often unreliable, and …
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ESSAYS ON THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC POLICIES ON HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND INCOME INEQUALITY
… I investigate the effectiveness of housing vouchers, the most common form of low-income rental assistance, in preventing households from facing eviction. I examine this question using newly-available public data on the universe of court-ordered evictions in the United States and exploiting …
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The phylogeography of the short-tailed shrews (genus Blarina) of southeast Tennessee
… To clarify their geographic ranges, Blarina vouchers were collected throughout the study area and mitochondrial DNA cytochrome b genes were isolated and sequenced. I collected and compared 53 DNA sequences from shrews throughout southeast Tennessee and southwest North Carolina to 101 samples …
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Considering Religious Discourse and Debates Concerning American Public Education
… and the country generally: privatization and vouchers; the confusion over the phrase ""the separation of church and state""; and the status of our ""civil religion"" in terms of Christianity, forms of secular humanism, and our societal ideals. While I find no solutions to these difficult …
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