Sentences with phrase «attending private schools»

Information from the DPI suggests that while the scope of the voucher program has been dramatically expanded, those receiving tuition vouchers were already attending private schools.

Washington — The nation's chief state school officials, in a markedly emotional meeting last week, voiced extreme displeasure with the Reagan Administration's posture towards public education, particularly its intention to seek legislation that would introduce a system of tuition tax credits for families with children attending private schools.

According to the NCES study, students attending private schools performed better than students attending public schools.

Opposition to universal vouchers, giving all families public dollars for a «wider choice» of attending private schools dropped from 48 to 41 percent, while support increased from 37 percent to 41 percent.

Similarly, the share of funds to be used by each recipient LEA to serve educationally disadvantaged students attending private schools is determined on the basis of the number of low - income children enrolled in private schools and living in the residential areas served by public schools selected to receive Title I grants.

Wolf's study suggests that males, in particular, benefit from attending private schools using vouchers.

STOs use these contributions to provide scholarships to students attending private schools, many of which are religious.

In 1981, 15 percent of the nearly 2.9 million Chilean K — 12 students had been attending private schools that received some public subsidy, and another 7 percent attended elite, unsubsidized private schools.

With the exception of these early - grade private school students, students already attending private schools in Florida are not eligible for first - time scholarships.

The smallest differences after two years were observed in New York City, where the combined test scores of African - American students attending private schools were 4.3 percentile points higher than those of the control group.

In the first year, some 15,585 scholarships were awarded, increasing the number of low - income students attending private schools by more than 50 percent.

The overall share of low - income students attending private schools ranged from 1.4 percent in Punta Gorda to 7.9 percent in the Melbourne - Titusville - Cocoa - Palm Bay area.

Since then, another 28 state legislatures have passed some kind of voucher program, tax credit, education savings account, or other intervention that provides government aid to students attending private schools.

That legislation, which also passed the House 95 - 21 and which Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican, was expected to sign, would impose a new set of accountability requirements, including mandating standardized tests for thousands of voucher students attending private schools with public money.

While all three objectives are equally important components of a civic education, it is the third - respect for opinions different from your own, or political tolerance - that may be most relevant to the debate over the civic consequences of attending private schools.

In 2003, 5.1 million children were attending private schools, down from 5.3 million in 2001.

Nonetheless, they still reveal significantly positive effects of attending private schools on African - American test scores.

The study participants, 30 preschool children and 15 1st and 2nd graders attending private schools in Jackson, Miss., received varied...

The data indicate that members of the treatment group who were attending private schools in the third year of the evaluation gained an average of 7.1 scale score points in reading from the program.

A school voucher program can not force scholarship recipients to use a voucher, nor can it prevent control - group students from attending private schools at their own expense.

On Tuesday, July 31, Governor Andrew Cuomo vetoed S7722, a controversial bill which would have allowed parents to seek tuition reimbursement for special education students attending private schools for cultural reasons.

The measure would provide tax credits for donations to non-profit scholarship finds that aid students in attending private schools, donations to public schools and help teachers who spend their own money on classroom supplies.

Wanting to reach all eligible children, Congress required that remedial programs for those attending private schools be «comparable» in quality to public school programs.

Barron attends a private school in the city.

By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

Hogan's budget, analysts said, would expand a statewide program that gives students from low - income families money to attend private schools.

Well, both my children attend a private school.

I was raised in a strict Christian household and attended a private school for most of my school years.

Recent analysis of the widely followed voucher experiment in Milwaukee shows that low - income minority students who attended private schools scored substantially better in reading and math after four years than those who remained in public schools.

Today, the rich attend private schools and elite public schools in wealthy suburbs.

He attends private school!

He and his father, Robert, have moved to New York City, where he attends a private school on the Upper East Side.

Clearly, there are some undeniable admissions - related advantages to attending a private school.

In other words, the fact that double the number of private school students go on to complete college degrees has more to do with who attends private school than what the private school is actually doing for the child's college prospects.

The North Carolina State Legislature, however, recently expanded the ESA program to include students who spent the year prior to enrollment attending private school or being home - schooled.

If your child attends a private school you will still need to contact the public school where your child's private school is located in order for your teen to be evaluated for special education services.

The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss the district's plans for providing special education services to students with disabilities who attend private schools and home schools within the District for the 2014 - 2015 School year.

My Princess attends a private school and wears uniforms.

The Post brands Sen. Bill Perkins a «hypocrite» for having attended private school when he was young but now opposing charter schools.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

Some 27,000 of the district's students attend private schools, mainly yeshivas.

If you want to make grants so everyone can attend a private school, you've just shuffled costs and names - you're effectively making a public school.

Senate Republicans introduced a bill that would have granted de Blasio three years, but only if Democrats agree to an education tax credit, which enables public school children to attend private schools.

Of these, some 24,000 attend private schools, mainly yeshivas.

Though he has been light on details, Trump is pushing an agenda that includes more charter schools and a voucher system for students who want to attend private schools.

BISON Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

In November, an investigation commissioned by the State Education Department concluded that the East Ramapo board had shown favoritism to Orthodox Jewish students who attend private schools in the area.

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.

But the governor pulled back from efforts to pass an education tax credit that would benefit donors who give up to $ 1 million, if they give money to scholarships for poor children to attend private schools.

Roughly 8,500 students, most of them black and Latino, attend the public schools in East Ramapo, while another 23,000 students in the district attend private schools, mostly yeshivas.