This program, funded under Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I, for eligible non-public school students in New York City consisted of corrective mathematics services and other supportive services. The supportive services were guidance, homework help and paraprofessional assistance. The program was aimed at first through twelfth graders,…

This document presents a description and an evaluation of the Corrective Reading Services Program, a component within the ESEA Title I nonpublic school program. This component was designed to serve approximately 12,000 eligible, educationally deprived children in 229 schools in New York City during the 1975-76 school year. The purpose of the…

Discusses one of two June 1997 rulings on church/state separation issued by the U.S. Supreme Court. In "Agostini v. Felton," the Court reversed an earlier decision ("Aguilar v. Felton") upholding a New York City taxpayer group's claims that a Title I program's employment of public school teachers in private/parochial schools…

This document presents a description and evaluation of the Corrective Reading Services Program designed to serve approximately 13,769 eligible, educationally deprived pupils in 229 nonpublic schools of New York City during the 1974-1975 school year. The purpose of the program was to improve the reading level of the students through a corrective…

This report looks at 78 privately funded voucher programs in New York City; Dayton, Ohio; and Washington, D.C. All three were longitudinal studies, tracking participants over 2 or 3 academic years. The programs shared numerous characteristics and faced common challenges, but they varied widely in the dollar amount of the vouchers they awarded and…

This paper reports on first-year results for an evaluation of the New York School Choice Scholarships Foundation program, which was designed to provide scholarships for children from low-income families currently attending public schools to transfer to private schools. Families won scholarships through a lottery. Researchers examined data from…

The voucher intervention sponsored by New York City's School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) has been a valuable source of information about such programs. It began in 1997, when K-4 public school students were invited to apply to SCSF for a voucher to help defray costs of private school tuition. Over 1,200 of 20,000 applicants were offered…

This report reviews 13 programs funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act. The Bilingual-Bicultural Program was also funded under Title VII of the ESEA. The Elementary bilingual program promoted academic achievement, English competence, and exposure to cultural heritage. The Chinese bilingual program served pupils in…

This program, funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act, is designed to provide speech therapy for approximately 6500 disadvantaged pupils in New York City non-public schools who have the additional handicap of defective speech. The objectives of the program were as follows: (1) to identify pupils with speech defects, (2)…

The programs in District 15 funded under Title I of the 1965 Elementary Secondary Education Act offered a wide variety of educational programs targeted for the educationally deprived child. The major common thread running through all Title I Programs was the emphasis upon improvement of basic academic skills. Primary focus of all programs was…

This document is the first comprehensive study of the characteristics of nonpublic schools in New York City. The significance of the title rests on the fact that nearly three out of ten school children in New York City attend some kind of nonpublic school. The report attempts to provide the detailed information needed to decide whether government…

The Central Elementary Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Remedial Services to Eligible Nonpublic School Pupils is a direct outgrowth of the ESEA Title I Act of 1965 and has been operating in New York City Public Schools since 1966. During the 1972-73 school year approximately 16,300 pupils were enrolled in the NPS program and were serviced by the…

This paper is a report on the estimated effects on students and families of the offer of a voucher (the "intention-to-treat" effect) and the effects of switching from a public to a private school (the "treatment-on-the-treated" effect). Specifically, the report estimates the impact of voucher programs on student test scores,…

This report presents a fresh analysis of data from an earlier study (Brookings 2002) on the test scores of African American students in a small, targeted voucher program. This new analysis was undertaken in response to an unpublished paper by Krueger and Zhu (Princeton University) disputing some of the findings of the original study. In 1997 some…

This document presents evaluations of five Title I/Impact Aid programs supported by Community School District 32 in Brooklyn, New York. The five programs were: (1) Strengthening Early Childhood Component; (2) Bilingual Methodology Reading Component; (3) Mathematics Laboratory Component; (4) Reading Laboratories Component; and (5) Non-Public School…