Sentences with phrase «supported by private schools»

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The idea was proposed by a Nebraska high school student named Shelbi Klingsporn as part of a private education program partnership with NASA and is now being supported by Medtronic.

But the NDP Government led by Premier Rachel Notley gives the impression it would be just as happy if the private school funding issue would go away, notwithstanding the strong public support for defunding elite private schools and a general lack of public enthusiasm for private schools.

For decades, states had used taxes to support public and private schools controlled by Protestants, with the goal not merely of Americanizing but of Protestantizing Catholic children.

In Massachusetts, a campaign by church - state separationists was successful in convincing voters to defeat a proposal to allow tax support for private and religious schools; the vote was 70 per cent to 30 per cent.

At the same time, Kitchens was more than ably supported by athletic director Bob Wilson, who is the best athletic director I've ever worked for in a public school (I only make that distinction because I don't want to upset my present, private school, athletic director).

The report decribes how a school - food advocate named Kate Adamick, supported by private grant money, has been traveling across Colorado this summer to conduct one - week boot camps to teach school employees how to cook from scratch.

A national survey commissioned by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation — an independent private foundation focused on the optimal development of children — reveals that 9 out of 10 Americans support current federal efforts to keep school meals healthy.

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

The Secondary school sports must be reinvigorated and sports clubs should spring up in local communities supported by the private sector as part of their corporate social responsibility.

The bill comes as lawmakers sort out whether to create an education tax credit, a proposal support by private and parochial schools, as well as re-authorized mayoral control.

And so far in this campaign, Miliband has distanced himself from New Labour by adopting a series of left - wing policies: abolishing charitable status for private schools; extending the tax on bankers» bonuses; supporting the introduction of a mansion tax on # 2m houses and a so - called Robin Hood tax on financial transactions.

He had been seeking relief for private yeshivas from curriculum standards, and was refusing to support various priorities sought by New York City, including design - build authority for the Brooklyn - Queens Expressway and increasing the number of speed cameras in school zones.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Governor Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or support enhanced programs at public schools.

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

The Minnesota PFF program is part of a national PFF program, sponsored by the Council of Graduate Schools and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AACU), with support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Pew Charitable Trusts, and a private donor.

Now, according to a poll just released by Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center, vouchers that use taxpayer funds for low - income students to attend private schools gathered support from 43 % of the public, with only 31 % opposed.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

A Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll and a survey by the Center for Education Reform suggest that there is rising support for using government money to pay for students to attend private schools.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

Enacted by the Ohio legislature in 1995, the Cleveland Scholarship and Tutoring Program allows 4,000 low - income children to attend private religious and secular schools with up to $ 2,250 in public support.

Thomas Nechyba argues in one paper that in the United States there is no such thing as a true public school, since access to public schools is rationed through private housing markets, and it is unlikely that there will ever by a fully private school, since private schools are subject to government oversight, and support for private schools is conditional on certain public aims being met.

In rural Ghana, a typical private school might consist of an open - air structure, often no more than a tin roof supported by wooden poles, on a small plot of land.

Prodded by Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other veteran private - sector reformers, the Obama administration has lent unexpectedly forceful support to such causes as common standards, better assessments, charter schools, merit pay, refurbished teacher preparation, and the removal of ineffective instructors.

She contrasts this with private schools receiving public support by saying that they «can — and do.»

When presented with research evidence that claims «students learn no more in private schools than in public schools,» support for school vouchers dropped by 10 percentage points, an impact almost as large as the President's.

Told about a proposal «that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» 50 percent of the American public comes out in support and 50 percent expresses opposition.

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

The bottom line is that while there are myriad reasons to support or oppose private school vouchers, the argument that one sector will generate citizens better prepared to participate in our democracy is not supported by the weight of the research evidence.

Overall, 43 percent of the uninformed American public support «a [universal voucher] proposal that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» while just 37 percent oppose the idea, with the remainder taking no position on the issue.

The Washington Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit supported by Robert that has raised private funds to help provide tuition scholarships for private school students, was selected by the Department of Education to administer the effort.

In 2002 he gave a private pledge to business leaders organized by Terence C. Golden, a former Reagan administration Treasury official and chief executive of Host Marriott, to support vouchers as part of a broader initiative to help charter and regular public schools.

Another factor that likely explains Florida's different scenario is the repeated claim by state education leaders, newspapers, and some members of the public that many charter schools in the state are engaged in profiteering and private enrichment, with support from powerful political allies in the state legislature and governor's office.

When tax credits are used to offset expenses for both private and public school students, overall support rises by another 10 percentage points.

Yet the high level of satisfaction with private schools provides encouragement for those who support school voucher initiatives, which increase access to the private sector by paying some or all of students» tuition.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

For example, the $ 31 million invested by private individuals, corporations and foundations to support The Mind Trust's efforts has helped build the infrastructure needed to transform our city's schools, making Indianapolis one of the nation's best - positioned cities to drive systemic change.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee said he supports spending more public money on private school tuition around Tennessee, and that restrictions should be placed on lobbying by government entities that oppose school vouchers.

Cities led by Milwaukee and Cleveland started programs providing tax - supported vouchers for low - income children to take to private schools.

In Washington state, the SEA already contracts with private parties for test development and school turnaround support, and there is little evidence that these services are significantly better (or worse) that those offered by states directly.

2) Then you've got the wonderfully contradicting way the article starts by referring to calls for «the independent sector to step up and provide more support to their state school counterparts» and then moves on to smugly pointing out how some of the academies sponsored by private schools aren't doing so well and quoting Lucy Powell's dismissal of them as not being up to the job of turning round failing schools.

Today, this tactic continues even as school desegregation has been downgraded as a priority by the Congress and federal courts, but the politics of Republican support for private schools has gained new elements.

«Along with our friends at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the cSchools, we agree that families are demonstrating the true support for educational choice by virtue of the 3.5 million students in publicly - supported private school choice programs and charter schools around the cschools around the country.

T.T. Minor has been supported for several years by large contributions from a private foundation, which has paid for extending the school year and other enhancements.

The department shall grant such 1 - year extension upon written request by the applicant or by the district school superintendent or the governing authority of a university lab school, state - supported school, or private school that employs the applicant.

None of the options school choice advocates promote — charter schools, voucher supported private schools, online schools operated by private companies — are part of a truly public school system.