Sentences with phrase «attend independent schools»

These two groups are over ten times more likely to have a private education than the general population, where 7 % attend independent schools.

One is that parents with children who attend independent schools are more satisfied than those with children in municipal schools.

Figlio and Hart, 2010, found that the scholarship tax credit program improves academic performance in public schools; and Figlio, 2011, found that students using the scholarships to attend independent schools are also benefiting academically.

On this basis, limiting the opportunity to attend independent schools to those who are able to afford the high fees seems inequitable.»

Around 520,000 pupils attend independent schools in the UK — the highest level since records began.

«Government schools are still the major provider of primary school education in Australia, followed by 19 per cent of school children who attend Catholic primary schools and 12 per cent who attend independent schools,» she said.

«Children whose parents» combined income was in the top quarter were more than twice as likely to attend an independent school, compared to children whose parents» income was in the middle to upper middle range,» she said.

Never have Britain's elite jobs been more dominated by privately educated students despite only seven per cent of pupils attending independent schools.

«Take two people of the same ability at age 11 and with the same parental background, track them forward, and the pupil who attends independent school is likely to earn substantially more,» he said.

Much of the gap is accounted for by socio - economic disadvantage, with pupil performance also differing depending on whether they attended independent schools, grammar schools or comprehensive schools, said a national report by the Department for Education (DfE).

Mills attended an independent school in Cardiff, Howell's school, while Clark went to Essex state school Colchester County high school for girls.

Stanning attended independent school Gordonstoun school in Scotland, where she was head girl in her final year.

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She is a trustee of the Independent Day School in Middlefield, Connecticut, where her two daughters attend elementary sSchool in Middlefield, Connecticut, where her two daughters attend elementary schoolschool.

Consulting groups Integral Development and Nous Group have won contracts to support development of independent public schools, as part of a range of programs that also include 20 principals per year attending a training program at Harvard University.

Upon graduation, our 8th Grade students routinely attend the most competitive independent and public high schools in New York City and beyond.

Waldorf School of Princeton alumni attend a wide variety of independent, parochial, and public high schools of their choice.

We intend to amend the registration requirement for independent education settings so that all such settings which children attend full - time during the school day have to register, and we will consult in due course on detailed proposals.»

Turley was born in Dartford, [29] received an academic scholarship to attend the independent Ashford School, [30] and lives in Redcar.

This places pressure on independent schools to show how they help children that can not afford to attend them or risk losing their # 100 million tax break.

Children and parents should not suffer because they choose to send their child to a religious or independent school - the rights and needs of a student at one of these schools should be treated as equally as those of a child who attends public school.

At the same time, we can not ignore the needs of the more than half a million children who attend New York's religious and independent schools.

About one out of every five private students attend an independent non-public school.

The Charter Center, along with the Northeast Charter School Network and a coalition of independent charters, held a press conference Tuesday with about 30 students who attend charters housed in private space to highlight the facilities funding gap.

-- Provides $ 19 million for an Enhanced Tuition program for students attending nonprofit independent schools.

Michael Gove's political adviser attended a key meeting four years ago where concerns about an alleged plot by Muslim hardliners to takeover Birmingham schools were raised, the Independent reports.

Boergers» team administered the School Sleep Habits Survey to boarding students attending an independent high school both before and after their school start time was experimentally delayed from 8 to 8:25 a.m. during the winterSchool Sleep Habits Survey to boarding students attending an independent high school both before and after their school start time was experimentally delayed from 8 to 8:25 a.m. during the winterschool both before and after their school start time was experimentally delayed from 8 to 8:25 a.m. during the winterschool start time was experimentally delayed from 8 to 8:25 a.m. during the winter term.

Students who attend five charter schools in the San Francisco Bay area that are run by the Knowledge Is Power Program, or kipp, score consistently higher on standardized tests than their peers from comparable public schools, an independent evaluation of the schools concludes.

In the United States (where some 13 percent of schoolchildren attend private or charter schools), independent schools are predominantly religious.

We must understand that, for Obama in particular, his experience was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school — an environment that correlates with his message and the success of many new black leaders — instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.

With the costs of attending many independent schools climbing sky - high, one Boston school has declared a year off from boosting tuition.

Obama was profoundly shaped by the opportunity to attend a top - flight independent school instead of what was almost surely an underperforming district school in Hawaii.

Current legislation for sex and relationships education only applies to pupils attending local authority - run secondary schools, which only represents around a third of high schools in the country, and PSHE is only mandatory at independent schools.

Individual students who attend the same school may share some characteristics that are not captured by survey data; the individual observations are not wholly independent of one another.

The Department for Education (DfE) is launching the new service, which is designed to give more vulnerable children the chance to attend some of the country's highest quality independent and state boarding schools.

Nearly 300,000 high school students attended online classes in 2002 - 03, estimates Eduventures, an independent research firm.

In 2008, five charter - management organizations announced plans to dramatically expand their school portfolios, and now more than 100,000 L.A. students attend independent charters (see Figure 1).

The government is set to propose new laws to protect children from attending illegal faith schools in the UK, The Independent has reported.

Our point here is straightforward: if a curriculum simply marches through lists of content knowledge and skills without attending to the concomitant goal of cultivating independent performance, high - schoolers will remain as dependent on teacher directions and step - by - step guidance as fourth graders currently are.

Students using vouchers to attend established private schools in Cleveland are slightly outperforming their public school counterparts in language skills and science, and doing about the same in reading, math, and social studies, according to the latest independent evaluation of the program.

The program increased FAFSA submissions by 39 percent for seniors in high school; 186 percent for independent students who had never been to college; and 58 percent for independent students who had previously attended college.

The consultation will consider which partners will be able to contribute to providing the most complete database, such as local health boards, and whether independent schools should be required to tell local authorities about the pupils who attend those schools.

Obama attended Indonesian Catholic and public schools, took correspondence courses under his mother's watch, and graduated from an elite Hawaiian independent school.

Delegates from independent schools and leading education sector organisations attended the first Essential Legal Conference for Schools — two more events are planned for Birmingham (30 November) and Manchester (March 2018) so that schools can benefit from expert advice and others» expeschools and leading education sector organisations attended the first Essential Legal Conference for Schools — two more events are planned for Birmingham (30 November) and Manchester (March 2018) so that schools can benefit from expert advice and others» expeSchools — two more events are planned for Birmingham (30 November) and Manchester (March 2018) so that schools can benefit from expert advice and others» expeschools can benefit from expert advice and others» experience.

It involves students attending a disadvantaged state or independent school from outer and metropolitan Melbourne to ensure they have the best possible chance at gaining a foothold in the job market when they finish their studies.

Voucher programs that give recipients the free and independent choice of an array of providers, including faith - based organizations, have a long and established history in Arizona, including six different educational voucher programs that help more than 22,000 students annually attend the public, private or religious school of their choice.

This suit attacking the Texas system of financing public education was initiated by Mexican - American parents whose children attend the elementary and secondary [p5] schools in the Edgewood Independent School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, School District, an urban school district in San Antonio, school district in San Antonio, Texas.

In 1984, Dr. Joan Davis Ratteray founded the Institute for Independent Education to organize these schools, which numbered almost 300 by 1990 and were attended primarily by the children of Black middle - class parents.

Q: Public school districts would be required to allow students who are home schooled, attend an independent or virtual charter school or attend private schools to participate in sports or extracurricular activities.

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In 2010, Kent county council funded 145 pupils to attend independent special schools.