Sentences with phrase «best private schools for your children»

This includes limousines, the best private schools for your children and exotic holidays abroad for your family.

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Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

The more young, orthodox Catholics we can get on the faculties of parish or private schools — heck, even public schools — the better prepared our children will be for life as faithful and thoughtful Catholics.

As parents who are considering private education, we may feel unsure about which school would be the best fit for our child.

She has homeschooled her own children as well as others, was a founder of a private Waldorf School (Sanderling School in Carlsbad, CA) and now strives through the Charter movement to bring Waldorf education to all children at Journey School where she has worked for the past 14 years.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

In fact, private schools can accept or refuse any child based on how well the school thinks the child will do there, and how well the school can provide for that child's needs.

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It's why we are saying to the great private schools that — in return for their charitable tax status — we want them to do more to take on children without the means to pay, or set up and sponsor good state schools.

The compromise would have yoked the Dream Act — which provides tuition assistance to the children of undocumented immigrants — to the tax credit for donations to private and parochial school scholarships as well as public school programs.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

Of course, Mary's teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate, Obvious Child) immediately realizes Mary is special, and just like that, the wheels of the educational system are in motion to explain to Frank why they know what's best for Mary... a high - fallutin private school where she can be all she can be.

Dianne Payne, an adoptive mother and a PTA president from Queens, asked the judge overseeing the state's 13 - year - old school finance case for $ 26,000 to remove two of her five children from what she considers inadequate public high schools and place them in private schools, where she contends schooling is better.

Let's not kid ourselves that those of us who pay a premium price for our child's education, whether in private - school tuition or school taxes in well - off communities, don't demand and receive schools largely free of the hardest to teach.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the opportunity to switch to private schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better public schools (through public school choice).

The No Child Left Behind Act imposes the wrong kind of testing on schools, educators need better systems to interpret the test data they get, and the federal government should help pay for the mandates it imposes, according to several advocates who last week addressed a private panel studying the education law and how to improve it.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a study that seeks to better understand the decision - making processes of parents who send their children to private schools.

We suspect that these families who choose a private school do so because they believe it will be the best fit for their child.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Proponents of vouchers and tax policies that fund private schooling argue that for the types of students they often serve — low - income children, students with disabilities, and students in low - performing schools — it's a good investment to let parents choose a setting they think will best serve their children's needs.

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Indiana's Choice Scholarship Program empowers thousands of families to choose the best K - 12 schools for their children — public, private or religious — just like state - funded college scholarship programs have done for decades.

Launched in 2008, Georgia's scholarship tax credit program will help over 13,000 children get the best education for their needs at secular and religious private schools this year.

We send our children to school for the private purpose of preparing for personal advancement — for college, career, and in hope that they might do a little better in life than we have.

In several of America's cities, public schools have long been dangerous or academically troubled; for families with means, the solution has been to send their children to expensive private schools or to move to better public - school districts.

Because the social and political trends of our nation are increasingly egalitarian, we will want the school in the year 2000 to provide for all children the kind of education that is available today only to those in the best private and public schools.»

Some parents, for example, visited private schools to see if they were a good curricular fit for their child.

That right vouchsafes to families the options of private schooling and home schooling but not of no schooling, for it is balanced by «high duty» and by the «power of the state,» as recognized in the same Court decision, to «reasonably to regulate all schools, to inspect, supervise and examine them, their teachers and pupils; to require that all children of proper age attend some school, that teachers shall be of good moral character and patriotic disposition, that certain studies plainly essential to good citizenship must be taught, and that nothing be taught which is manifestly inimical to the public welfare» (emphasis added).

He is best known for his own research in that country, in which he looks at the widespread implementation of a program to provide a form of private schools to the children of impoverished rural farmers.

Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»

But when families are asked which type of school they would select in order to obtain the best education for their child, the numbers change dramatically: 41 percent would choose private school and 36 percent would remain in public school.

The choice movement, which includes vouchers for private school tuition and the creation of charter schools, sought better education through the market mechanism of having parents choose which schools their children would attend.

The marketing of both private school choice and public charters promises to escalate over the next two years, masquerading as the best option for underserved children.

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Black parents, wherever your child attends school, whether it be a traditional public school, a public charter school or a private school, we can and must be better for you.

The fact that organizations like Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks volumes.

LFC supports a wide range of educational choice initiatives, so that high quality public, charter and private schools flourish and parents will have the opportunity to select the quality school that works best for their children, and so that teachers will have the flexibility to select the school that best utilizes their strengths and interests.

Quite often, public schools of choice are to low - income families what private schools are to more affluent families, Swagerty says, adding that she loves the fact that charters give low - income families the option to «make smart decisions about what's best for their children.»

The foundation has invested more than $ 1 billion to date to improve all types of schools - traditional district, public charter and private - and to support innovative organizations that share a common goal: to give all families the ability to choose the best school for their child, regardless of their zip code.

The week is also designed to empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children and supports a variety of school choice options — from encouraging increased access to great public schools, to public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.

A: The short answer is this: you can't predict how good a school will be for a child just by knowing if it is public, private, charter, magnet and so on.

A survey of Georgia private school parents in 2013 found the top five reasons why parents chose a private school for their children were all related to school climate and classroom management: better student discipline (50.9 percent), better learning environment (50.8 percent), smaller class sizes (48.9 percent), improved student safety (46.8 percent) and more individual attention for their children (39.3 percent).

Education choice allows tax dollars to follow students to the schools or services that best meet their needs, and parents have the ability to choose an education that they determine is right for their child, whether at a traditional public school, charter school, or private school.

Like any parent, she's entitled to do what's best for her children — and private schools by and large provide more, and often better, choices for city kids.

My guess is the state held off releasing scores until students were well into the new school year, making it difficult for parents to leave for private schools for the current year due to the fact they were unhappy with their child's scores.

One of the objectives stated by the Department for Education (DfE) is to ensure that good school places are available to children of disadvantaged families, and not just those who can afford them by moving into the right catchment area, paying for private education or tuition, or belonging to a given faith group.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the well - being of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

Since there is NOT capacity or expertise (or maybe even desire) in the charter / private market to teach ALL children, there will remain the targeted, embattled traditional schools, operating on an uneven playing field to compete for the «best» students and «best» educators and operating under draconian measures like this bill, while serving heavier and heavier concentrations of children who are the hardest to teach.