Sentences with phrase «attend public school because»

43 - 241, students who can not attend public school because of illness, accident, or pregnancy, even with the aid of transportation, are eligible for medical homebound or hospitalized instruction.

Although thousands of students in the Fort Wayne district aren't attending the public schools because of vouchers, Stockman says it isn't dramatically hurting their enrollment.

Not exact matches

Because most of Chicago «s public schools have closed campuses and 88 percent of the children attending receive free or reduced - price lunches, Phillips is more concerned about getting the students to eat than losing them to outside competition.

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.

She also said she hasn't considered working in other districts in Western New York because she has children that attend the Buffalo Public Schools.

This was particularly the case because many societies remain highly segregated: the average American public school student has less than one interracial friend, and around 90 % of people who attend religious services do so only with others of their own race.

Juneau's great - grandparents attended federal schools hundreds of miles from home because they were not allowed to attend public school.

«I am coming back to active leadership because I have missed my passion — the on the ground battle for our children who attend urban public schools.

The plaintiffs also allege that they have been injured because some of their children attend public schools, and because when a student uses a private scholarship to switch from public to private school it reduces district funding.

Disappointed in the school work brought home by her foster kids attending public school, the now Minnesota congresswoman decided to get involved because the school system didn't have an «academic foundation,» according to Bloomberg News.

When Margery Yeager, special assistant for transformation management for the D.C. public schools, attended her first school closing meeting in 2008 — she's now helped close 28 schools — the meeting was so contentious that, she recalls, «I honestly thought at the time, «I don't know how we will make this happen because there is just such vocal opposition.

We are also of the opinion -LSB-...] that members of the public are not prohibited from receiving public benefits because of their religious beliefs or because they happen to be attending a parochial school.

By looking at students who were declared ineligible for its Flex program in the most recent academic year because they had not attended public school in the year prior, FLVS was able to follow where those students went back to and create a counter-factual for what those students would do if they were not enrolled in a part - time public program.

Because good private schools have discovered this secret, African - American students who attend them are much more likely to complete college than are comparable students from public schools.

As Isabella, an 11 - year - old student who previously attended a nearby public school, said, «Here it's different from my old school because you're doing your own playlist and you have more projects.»

When Jack started at Amherst, he was lucky enough to know what office hours were because, although he had attended public schools in Miami through 11th grade, he transferred his senior year to a nearby private school, Gulliver Prep, after a bad experience with a football coach who didn't value his academic skills.

In part because of its dismal public school system and in part because of a strong religious, especially Catholic, tradition, New Orleans had a robust private school network before Katrina: some 25,000 students, more than a third of the number in the public schools, attended 92 different schools.

Because attending any of these schools is a pretty certain path to graduation and admission into a decent (or even stellar) university, all at public expense, the competition is fierce.

If certain families don't want to attend these schools because they don't want their students taking these assessments, then they can find a private option that doesn't use public dollars.

From a public policy standpoint, LeVine says their work is important because it shows — despite what many in education don't want to hear — that even low - quality schools and attending for only a few years can have a positive impact, especially in developing countries.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

When the focus was on students, all readily agreed that it would be unfair to discriminate against certain kids simply because of the type of public school they attend.

Critics have long complained that charters don't enroll the most difficult to educate students, and that they drain money from districts because public school dollars move with students to whatever school they attend.

Think back to Topeka, Kan., in the 1950s, where seven - year old Linda Brown was denied the opportunity to attend a nearby public school because she was black.

«We are here today because every public school student deserves to be treated fairly, but right now that's not happening, said La'Quita Boles, a mother of two students who attend public charter schools in Bridgeport.

Either because of public opposition, lawsuits, or the modest scope of voucher and tax - credit scholarship laws, only some 200,000 students nationwide attend private schools through choice systems, a paltry figure compared to the 50 million students in public schools across the United States.

But she rejected them as a solution, she said, because most poor and minority students will attend traditional public schools in any case.

Because our schools are public charter schools, there is no tuition to attend.

She chose it because it was across the street from the Catholic school for boys that her son attends, also with a voucher, and it seemed better than a neighborhood public school that has failed for years to meet achievement targets.

For example, I read about a district in San Diego that was losing $ 65.9 M per year to charter schools because the kids are signing up and attending local charter public schools.

Because more students aren't attending public school first, Fort Wayne schools never even saw those kids.

The South Carolina Supreme Court held that using public money to guarantee student loans for students attending private schools did not violate South Carolina's Blaine Amendment because the program is religiously neutral and supports higher education, not institutions of higher education.

A federal district court in Iowa held that a state tax deduction for school expenses, including private school tuition, does not violate the Establishment Clause because it is available to parents regardless of whether their child attends a public, private or religious school, neither advances nor inhibits religion, and does not entangle the state with religion.

The Maryland Court of Appeals held that using public money to provide transportation for children attending private or parochial schools does not violate Maryland's Compelled Support Clause because religious institutions would be aided only incidentally as the by - product of proper legislative action to secure the education of children.

That's because some students who have never attended public school are eligible for vouchers, too.

Paula Gray, Director of Human Resources --» School choice is important because a parent should have the ability to choose which public school their child attends and not be restricted by their address or iSchool choice is important because a parent should have the ability to choose which public school their child attends and not be restricted by their address or ischool their child attends and not be restricted by their address or income.

Public schools in North Carolina must accept all - comers because the law requires all school - aged children to attend school.

Because students in kindergarten are not required to attend a public school for 100 days like students in all other grades, it may be the case that some kindergarten ESA users fit that mold.

The union argues that — despite the corporate tax workaround — it still violates the separation of church and state because the scholarships allow children to attend private religious school on the public's dime, among other issues.

My family had chosen our neighborhood because of the academic record of its public schools and, as a result, I attended schools that were 92 percent or more white and only about 2 percent black.

School choice has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, with literally millions of students benefiting from the choice movement, precisely because most studies have shown that school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public scSchool choice has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, with literally millions of students benefiting from the choice movement, precisely because most studies have shown that school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public scschool choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public scschool scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public schools.

[27] About 20 percent of all public school students do not appear in the dataset because the group who live in a neighborhood and attend one school is smaller than 10 students.

Then, they need to have the resources to actually attend the charter, because unlike regular public schools, charter schools in North Carolina do not have to offer transportation or lunch to students.

The immersive environment also means that many private school students simply attend school for more hours in the day than do public school students because private schools offer after - school programs and a longer schedule.

Enrollment at out - of - boundary schools is higher in high schools in part because 20 percent of all public high school students attend DCPS application high schools, which require students to submit an application and admit students based on specific criteria or eligibility requirements.

«I want to thank Gov. Nathan Deal, Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, bill sponsors Rep. Scott Hilton and Sen. Fran Millar and the Georgia General Assembly for ensuring that more Georgia students will have access to a high quality and transformative public education because the public charter schools they attend will receive a funding increase.

Why should charter school students be punished simply because they attend a public school of their choice, and not the one assigned to them based on a school boundary map?

Because we are part of the public charter school of choice, there is no tuition to attend our school.

For example, while achievement levels between charter and public schools are frequently compared, few of these comparisons are experimental, because the students attending charter schools are self - selected, rather than randomly assigned.

We had a very diverse population, and most students attended the charter because they hadn't succeeded at the public high schools in the area for a plethora of reasons.