Sentences with phrase «by private schools at»

Only 67,729 were being served by private schools at parental initiative, a mere 1.1 percent of disabled students, and a trivial 0.14 percent of the 49.6 million students in public education.

Only 67,729 were being served by private schools at parental initiative, a mere 1 percent of disabled students.

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In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

Private student loans are typically capped at the total cost of attendance verified by the student's selected school, and they are available to undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree students.

At some private universities, this differentiation was instantiated by the continuance of divinity schools, which made other disestablishment of Christianity at those institutions seem less threateninAt some private universities, this differentiation was instantiated by the continuance of divinity schools, which made other disestablishment of Christianity at those institutions seem less threateninat those institutions seem less threatening.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

At the same time, Kitchens was more than ably supported by athletic director Bob Wilson, who is the best athletic director I've ever worked for in a public school (I only make that distinction because I don't want to upset my present, private school, athletic director).

By contrast, public schools athletes and parents seem to be a lot more willing to complain about a coach unlike a coach at a private school.

It was started in 2007 by Madeline Levine (private psychologist, SUNY Buffalo»70 and»72 and Alliant International University - San Francisco Bay PhD» 80), Jim Lobdell (private education consultant), and Denise Clark Pope (lecturer at the Stanford Ed School).

Without exception, women should be able to breastfeed their babies in any and all public and private spaces, at work, in the park, the supermarket, on the subway, at school, in restaurants, on airplanes, and by the local swimming pool.

That tour saved us thousands of dollars, by not paying that pricey private school tuition at Duke and then transferring.

Though they differ a bit in the years during which they require a child to be schooled — children may be required to start school at age 5 — 8 and not allowed to leave until age 16 — 18 — they all require public schooling or acceptable substitutes (for example, private school, homeschooling), with criteria set by the state for how this works.

A deadline for each sport by which the private school student's parents must register with the public school in writing their intent for their child to participate at that school in the sport.

America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.

A source I spoke with at Houston ISD Food Services told me that salad bars in Houston schools (whether obtained through Chef Ann's grant program or by private fundraising) are simply «not sustainable;» i.e., the fresh produce required to regularly stock a salad bar is too expensive.

Inspired by the Oscar - winning film «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» Kat Sullivan, a former Emma Willard student who was raped by her history teacher at the elite Troy private school, rented out three electronic billboards — one of which is in Albany — to highlight her experience and support the Child Victims Act.

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

«The Story So Far», an interesting new report by Bill Grueskin, Ava Seave, and Lucas Graves published by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, presents a great tour d'horizon of the business of online news in the U.S., and is an important contribution to our understanding of where the private news industry might be heading.

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

The education tax credit, a version of which was approved by the Republican - led Senate earlier today, is aimed at encouraging donations that help public and private schools.

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

Under the provisions of the education tax credit proposed by Governor Cuomo, people and businesses can donate up to $ 1 million to a scholarship fund to send underprivileged children to private schools, or support enhanced programs at public schools.

Borough of Opportunity: Tackling poverty and the widening social divide by giving a «hand up» instead of a «hand out» by transforming our state schools, providing a housing ladder of opportunity with home ownership at its core and regenerating our most deprived areas by using the public sector to pump prime major investment by the private sector.

Adolescents» conduct problems were assessed at ages 13 and 14 by survey questions like «In the past year, how often have you: a) been disobedient in school, b) lied to your parents, c) stolen from a store, d) been involved in a gang fight, and e) damaged public or private property for fun?»

Students were from local public, private, charter and MESA program schools, and as described by CSNE Co-director of Education at SDSU, Sweta Sarkar, these students were motivated, sharp and eager to learn.

Private Romeo (unrated) Homoerotic reinterpretation of Romeo and Juliet set at a military school where a couple of star - crossed cadets (Seth Numrich and Matt Doyle) fall in love while staging a classic by the Bard of Avon.

Having just landed a new job at a hospital, Maggie is saddled with constant double shifts and is thus unable to be at home for her son and help him adjust to his new private school setting, which is generally affable as taught by Brother Geraghty (Chris O'Dowd).

John Ridley's story this season has focused on a high school student (Connor Jessup) who is attending a tony private school on scholarship when he is sexually assaulted at a party hosted by the basketball team's co-captains (Joey Pollari as Eric, and Trevor Jackson as Kevin).

«They had door - to - door transportation,» Mary «Neva» Helms, recalls of the free bus service provided at the time by the Jefferson Parish, La., school district to private school children in this large suburban area outside New Orleans.

Macke Raymond, director of Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), and an expert on monopolies in the public and private sectors, made this clear at a 2006 forum organized by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

Private schools are very much alike with respect to how parents gauge the seriousness of potential problems at the school; they are also more homogeneous than the other two sectors in their instruction in character and values, as perceived by parents.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

Recent studies purport to show that voucher programs result in better achievement by black students at private schools, and that vouchers motivate public schools to improve.

It is manifest in the residential choices made by families... [and] when families, sometimes at great financial sacrifice, decide to send their children to private schools....

From fall 2001 to fall 2003, the enrollment at private schools dropped by 218,741 students, or 4 percent, according to the center, an arm of the U.S. Department of Education.

Those families would have saved the taxpayer money by paying their own education bill, but as they are eligible for a voucher, they can attend the private school at public expense instead.

According to a recent study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education, by 2008 CMOs accounted for more than 10 percent of the charter school market and had been the beneficiaries of at least $ 500 million in private philanthropy.

Now let's consider what would happen if choice were vastly expanded, and parents were allowed — by means of vouchers, say — to send their children to private schools at no cost.

Given the rampant grade inflation at all levels of American education, grades earned by students in even the most elite traditional private schools can not be trusted.

Jewish Day school alumni attend their first - choice college at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.

This claim of low - quality private provision for the poor has also been taken up by British prime minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa, which recently reported that although «Non-state sectors... have historically provided much education in Africa,» many of these private schools «aiming at those [families] who can not afford the fees common in state schools... are without adequate state regulation and are of a low quality.»

The concept had been pioneered by teacher Kevin Jennings, Parlin's then - partner, at Concord Academy, a private school some 17 miles from Newton.

However, in all cases analyzed so far — Ga, Hyderabad, and Kibera — students in private schools achieved at or above the levels achieved by their counterparts in government schools in both English and mathematics (see Figure 3).

Even students in private schools, despite hailing from more socioeconomically advantaged homes and in some cases being selectively admitted by schools, fail miserably at attaining NAEP proficiency.

As Lamb, Teese and Polesel have shown, with the increasing residualisation of public schools caused by the flight of cultural capital — itself a result of years of federal and state neglect and artificial choice programs promoting private schools — public schools have a larger proportion of problematic learners, disadvantaged and refugee families, and students at risk of school failure, but have larger class sizes than ever before in comparison with most private schools.

School districts in Maine are not required by the U.S. Constitution to pay tuition for students at religious high schools even when they pay for secular private schools.

At least 60 percent of rural families are within ten miles of intradistrict choice, interdistrict choice, and private schools, but urban families are more likely to have these choices close by.

The number of the nation's 81,506 elementary and secondary schools using at least one microcomputer for instruction more than doubled from 24,690 (30 percent) in the fall of 1982 to 55,765 (68 percent) in the fall of 1983, according to a survey by Market Data Retrieval, a private marketing research firm.

Total Federal Government funding per student for Australian public schools rose by 115.2 per cent over the past decade, compared with 15.8 per cent for private schools although the total Federal Government expenditure per student is still higher for private school students at $ 6434 compared with $ 1915 for public school students.