Sentences with word «nonsectarian»

In year one, nearly two - thirds of students in the program attended a Roman Catholic school, 17 % attended a non-Catholic, faith - based school, and only 18 % were enrolled in nonsectarian private schools.

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In 1993 - 94 the average tuition paid by private school students was about $ 3,100, ranging from a low of about $ 1,600 in Catholic elementary schools to a high of about $ 9,500 in nonsectarian secondary schools.

The Bush Administration asks the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of nonsectarian prayers at public school graduations.

While states» policies differ, charter schools are broadly defined as nonsectarian public schools of choice that can operate outside traditional school regulations.

The people who say they work for nonsectarian institutions often are motivated by their own personal Christian faith.

Church Affiliation: Nonsectarian Grades: PK - 12 School Type: Coeducational, day school Comments: The Awty International School offers the IB Diploma Programme as well as a course of studies leading to the French Baccalaureate.

Andrew Carnegie was creating a ten - million - dollar foundation to finance pensions for retired faculty, but only for those at nonsectarian colleges.

At Denison University, an attempt is made to plan a service that is «as nonsectarian as possible,» leaning heavily on contemporary forms and student initiative in planning and presentation.

If, for example, an agreement is reached that some sort of nonsectarian prayer be offered to begin classes or school assemblies, conservative Christians might take offense if Jesus is not mentioned.

Waldorf education is the largest and fastest growing nonsectarian educational movement in the world, with over 1100 schools worldwide, on every continent and in over 60 nations.

Beginning with Horace Mann in Massachusetts, in the 1830s, states implemented reforms aimed at establishing a free, nonsectarian education system, but most national legislation was aimed at higher education.

In 1990 Wisconsin began providing vouchers to a small number of low - income students to attend nonsectarian private schools.

It does not prohibit the giving of nonsectarian courses in religion for academic credit in the state universities, and this is widely and increasingly being done.12 America is not a Godless nation.

§ 392 - 172A - 04070 (2)(«Equipment and supplies used with students in a private school or agency may be placed on nonsectarian private school premises for the period of time necessary for the program.»

In fact, large numbers of Protestants agreed with strict secularists that even Horace Mann's ideal of training in basic Christian beliefs in nonsectarian fashion was wrong.

With increased media attention on how mainstream education is failing our children, it is no surprise that Waldorf Education is the largest and fastest growing nonsectarian educational movement in the world.

Information about California public schools, private schools, nonpublic nonsectarian schools, school districts, and county offices of education.

The only nonsectarian Jewish - founded institution of higher learning in the United States, Brandeis is one of the world's youngest private research universities.

Consequently, it was deemed proper, for example, to teach nonsectarian Prot?estantism, anti-Catholic propaganda, and the King James Bible in public schools.

These Catholic claims prompted state constitutional amendments nationwide dictating that public funds for education could not be controlled by «any religious sect,» language carefully chosen to halt the Catholic drive while preserving public school instruction in nonsectarian Protestantism.

(Conservatives have generally held that it is permissible for the state to promote at least nonsectarian religion.)

This change makes the availability of usable nonsectarian language like that of the just war tradition all the more necessary, because there must be debate.

Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University, the other new nonsectarian institution of higher learning, grieved over a government report that as of 1876 there were 545 degree - granting institutions in the country.

The story, told in this way, is a remarkably familiar one: the «Victorian crisis of faith» and its resultant emphasis on the «spirit of human brotherhood» as an unarguably nonsectarian substitute for a failed religion.

Andrew White, who would become the founding president of Cornell University, one of the first institutions explicitly nonsectarian from its foundation, had been soured by his one year at a small Episcopal college.

Finally, the head of a thoroughly nonsectarian school answers one of my questions this way: «What is the most important goal I have for my students?

Such utterances and practices are clearly nonsectarian.

Nineteenth - century college courses in moral philosophy were part of the effort to set such nonsectarian Protestant standards for the nation.

When invited to become the fourth minister of the First Radio Parish Church of America in Portland, Maine, the nation's longest continuously running nonsectarian radio and now TV ministry, I believed the worst about electronic gospel ministers.

Nonsectarian metaphysics in the middle two quarters of the twentieth century has survived in the careers of these two philosophers, virtually alone, and Hartshorne shows here what it has been like.

ST. PETER: We wanted to arrange a thematic kind of thing for you, maybe some sort of BYU reunion, but they like to keep things nonsectarian up here.

La Leche League is an international, nonsectarian service organization dedicated to providing support, education, information and encouragement to women who choose to breastfeed.

In the words of Justice Antonin Scalia, «I assume Justice Breyer could send his child to one of the community schools, which [are] entirely nonsectarian... [These] schools get more money than the sectarian schools.»

In the United States, for example, Catholics perceived government - operated «common schools» to be Protestant - dominated institutions that were only ostensibly nonsectarian.

The report by the data - gathering branch of the U.S. Department of Education compares public schools with nonsectarian, Roman Catholic, conservative Christian, and other religious schools on their relative levels of school - based control, educational missions, curricula, staff sizes, professional development, and teacher compensation.

Like Washington, Minnesota had a regulation that limited the provision of services to «neutral» — meaning nonsectarian — sites.

All charter schools in Virginia are nonsectarian alternative public schools located within a school division and under the authority of a local school board.

Any public high school pupil could enroll in a UW System institution, a technical college within the WTCS, a tribal college, or a private, nonprofit institution of higher education located in Wisconsin to take one or more nonsectarian courses, including during a summer semester or session.

I refer to nonsectarian social welfare operations such as the care of orphaned children and the destitute and people who are sick.

New York University (NYU) is a private, nonsectarian American research college situated in New York City.

Based in Washington, DC, we are a nonprofit, nonpartisan, nonsectarian coalition of organizations and individuals committed to fostering effective character education in our nation's schools.

So - called «Friendly Visitors» provided visitation to the sick and poor, relief to the destitute, and conducted nonsectarian meetings in impoverished areas.

La Leche League is an international, non-profit, nonsectarian organization dedicated to providing education, information, support, and encouragement to women who want to breastfeed.

Religious affiliation: Nonsectarian Grades: 9 - 12 School Type: Coeducational, boarding / day school Comments: New Hampton School offers a structured and challenging environment that encourages spiritual, moral, academic and social growth.

As such, in 1985, with Republicans in control of the legislature, Perpich recommended two school choice proposals: postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), to allow high school juniors and seniors to attend nonsectarian public and private colleges, and open enrollment, to allow parents to send their children to schools anywhere in the state.