Sentences with phrase «attending nearby public schools»

The studies were conducted as a partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas and look at the impact of the vouchers on student achievement and non-cognitive skills, on racial segregation, and on students attending nearby public schools (competitive effects).

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.»

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.

Not exact matches

Instead of asking whether all students in charter schools are more likely to attend segregated schools than are all students in traditional public schools, we should be comparing the racial composition of charter schools to that of nearby traditional public schools.

A straight - A student from a public high school on Maryland's Eastern Shore, he gave up a chance for an Ivy League education to take care of his sick mother and attend nearby Washington College, from which he graduated magna cum laude in 2006.

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.

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

For example, in 2011, AFT engaged the NAACP, now on the union's payroll, to file a lawsuit to keep some children in Harlem in their failing traditional public schools, instead of allowing them to attend nearby superior (non-unionized) charter schools.

Local officials worked with the Virginia General Assembly to create a «tuition grant» program that allocated vouchers for white students to attend segregated private schools or other nearby public schools.

He landed a job at Horizon Pharma, a drugmaker with offices in the northern suburb of Lake Forest, and moved with his wife to nearby Libertyville, trading city nightlife for the good public schools their newborn son will one day attend.