Sentences with phrase «as sending their children to private schools»

The bad schools tended to be in poor areas because the poor lack political clout and possess fewer alternatives, such as sending their children to private schools, than the privileged.

Not exact matches

I'm on the verge of sending my child to private schools or homeschooling as I, THE PARENT has the choice in what my child does and does not eat.

The fact is that lower - income groups are much more likely to see the benefits of spending in these areas as they are proportionately less likely to send their children to private fee - paying schools like Harrow or Eton, or have private health insurance and be registered with Harley St doctors.

Abbott's decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School after criticising colleagues for sending their children to selective schools, which she herself described as «indefensible» and «intellectually incoherent», caused controversy and criticism.

• Everyone should make decisions on their children's education as a parent first and foremost and Mr Clegg has made it clear that his child is more important than any negative political comment he might suffer (I might send my son to private school, 25 January).

The school board is predominately made up of Hasidic Jews who send their children to private Jewish schools, also known as yeshiva's.

He also emerged as a leading proponent of a federal tax credit for low - income families who send their children to private schools.

Detroit — Michigan's public - school teachers are twice as likely as the general public in the state to send their children to private schools, according to a newspaper survey.

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.

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

As in past years, the 2017 poll shows little public support for using public money to send children to private schools.

«As you may know, school choice allows parents to use their child's K through twelve education tax dollars to send their child to the public, charter, or private school that best serves their needs.

They use this as the evidence to support a movement that redistributes public school funds and gives parents the choice to send their children to private schools or charter schools.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

Williams was also concerned about the raising of income caps for the voucher program, as this gradually shifted funding toward families who were already sending their children to private schools.

Furthermore, some parents send their children to private schools that are not even in the same country as the children's place of birth.

As someone who is working all the hours to send my children to private school and making sacrifices such as no holidays, no extras and working extra shifts and being very careful financially as they did not get into the most local «good» state school I would most certainly move my children back into the state systeAs someone who is working all the hours to send my children to private school and making sacrifices such as no holidays, no extras and working extra shifts and being very careful financially as they did not get into the most local «good» state school I would most certainly move my children back into the state systeas no holidays, no extras and working extra shifts and being very careful financially as they did not get into the most local «good» state school I would most certainly move my children back into the state systeas they did not get into the most local «good» state school I would most certainly move my children back into the state system.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

ESA's, known as «Vouchers 2.0» by education reformers, offer parents the option to receive money in an account that they can use for private school tuition and other educational expenses to supplement learning or in lieu of sending their children to public schools.

Susan and Asa sent their children to public schools, private schools, parochial schools and they home schooled for a time as well.

These government funded dollars will serve as tuition payments for families who want to send their children to a private school of choice.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Why do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»

Where parents have a choice and send their children to a private school, the results are unambiguous and just as striking.

The program, also known as Opportunity Scholarships, uses taxpayer dollars to help low - income families send their children to private schools.

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.

When the chips are down — in other words, when it comes to their own children — public school teachers are twice as likely as other parents to send their kids to private schools.

But when its contract was approaching expiration a few years ago, the town decided to give local parents the option of sending their children to private schools as well, and the town would cover tuition up to the amount that it was spending per pupil at the neighboring district school (about $ 12,000).

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

As a former public school teacher for gifted children I never thought I would send my child to a private school.

A little known benefit of working at a private school is that faculty and staff usually can send their children to the school for a reduced rate, a service known as tuition remission.

If Luke Bronin wants to send his child or children to an elite private school and can afford to pay $ 20,000 a year, per child, to ensure they have a private school education, that is certainly his right as a parent.

Financially strapped parents — like both sets of my grandparents — who saw education as the North Star to liberation scraped together meager earnings to send their children to private school, even while paying taxes for a persistently failing neighborhood school.

DeVos is right: the choice to send your child to a private or charter school instead of your neighborhood public school is as easy as calling a Lyft or an Uber instead of a taxi — and that's not necessarily a good thing...

We did not have the option of evaluating what teachers actually do, as the geniuses in Albany and DC, many of whom send their children to private schools where this nonsense does not apply, appear to have determined that teachers teach tests rather than students.

It is true that more orthodox Jews (by the way, the term «Hasidics» as opposed to «Hasids» or «Hasidim» is borderline derogatory - also, by the way, many of us who live here are not Hassidic even though we are Orthodox and send our children to private schools...) are moving into those areas.