Sentences with phrase «child goes to a public school»

The Gates and Obama children attend private schools, while Duncan's children go to public school in Virginia, one of four states that never adopted the Common Core.

Here's the solution: Make Rahm Emanuel and Barack Obama's children go to public schools.

Usually, it will only fully cover your costs if your child goes to a public school within the state.

Not exact matches

We forgo vacations to places like Mexico, Hawaii, etc (places where many of our friends with children in public school go each and every year routinely).

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.

Well this fool HeavenSent (I shouldn't say that — poor thing drank something that's made her brain rotten), but anyway she wrote:» It goes to trying to force your cult's brainwashing on children in public schools.»

I believe that it is up to the parent to determine if their child should go to a religious school or a public school.

It goes to trying to force your cult's brainwashing on children in public schools.

«My daughter goes to public school and I can see the impact breakfast — or lack thereof — has on children in starting their day right,» she told us last year.

«If a child says they want to go back to public school, we will start working for that goal,» McDonough says.

These are essentially questions of public policy, and if real solutions are going to be found to the problems of disadvantaged children, these questions will need to be addressed, in a creative and committed way, by public officials at all levels — by school superintendents, school - board members, mayors, governors, and cabinet secretaries — as well as by individual citizens, community groups, and philanthropists across the country.

My children will NOT be going to public schools for many reasone, and this is one of them.

And as a parent whose children attend public school, I'm also angered that McDonald's is trying to go through schools to access children, providing much - needed fundraising dollars by pushing its unhealthy food on school families.

For example, my children have two college - educated parents (with graduate degrees), go to a «safe» public school and are in sports and music classes.

(Regardless of whether your child goes to a private or public school, public schools must, under law, provide these evaluations for a child when requested.)

If your little one isn't of sufficient age to go to public school or perhaps your child includes a disability...

«It's a shame that Congress seems more interested in protecting industry than protecting children's health... this legislation may go down in nutritional history as a bigger blunder than when the Reagan Administration tried (and failed) to credit ketchup as a vegetable in the school lunch program,» — Margo Wootan, Nutrition Policy Director, Center for Science in the Public Interest in a press release

Talk about how American's have to pay for their children to go to private schools because public schools are welfare schools and 99 % dysfunctional.

I am not going to prevent any parent who currently has their child in public school the opportunity to have their child remain in public school until the terminal grade.

But Kolb says he knows talks are going on about the top two remaining issues, renewing New York City's rent laws and an education tax credit for donors who give up to a million dollars to fund scholarships for poor children in private schools and fund afterschool activities at public schools.

I hope for sake of the 34,000 children in Buffalo public school that going forward people actually do more than pay lip service to improving our schools.

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

«But that doesn't not mean we aren't fully behind the 85 percent of children in New York state who go to public schools.»

«Because of the dysfunctionality of the school system, it caused a wave of people over the years leaving the city because they weren't going to send their children to a dysfunctional public school.

«In my view, if you want to go to a private school, whether you're wealthy and you want your child to go to a private school or you are Catholic and want your child to go to a Catholic school or you are Jewish and you want your child to go to a Jewish school, that should not be paid for by public funds,» she said.

«It is important to take those findings in account when aiming to train young pedestrians for road safety and increase public awareness with children going back to school,» Prof. Oron - Gilad says.

Nestle: Well, we will do it in the way these changes always take place — you do it through education of the public; you create demands for different kinds of foods; you teach parents to go into schools and look at what their kids are eating and then do something about it; you change policy so that it becomes more difficult for food companies to advertise to children; you stop them from marketing junk food to kids using cartoon characters.

In nations where children do not go to school in the summer, there is a more pronounced beginning to flu season that coincides with the start of public school.

My children who were in public school dreaded going back this school year and begged me to not have them go back.

«When children leave the home and go to school or the public library and have access to social - networking sites, we have reason to be concerned,» Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick, a Pennsylvania Reublican.

We found that large international NGOs and humanitarian organizations feel that their expertise and experience was going unrecognized and unappreciated by government actors, and that government actors sometimes view NGOs as competitors who were undermining their efforts to get as many children as possible into public schools.

Local and religious authorities fought back, but in 1852, the public - school lobby, eager to destroy what they saw as popery and other forms of orthodox religious bigotry, crowned their considerable achievements by passing the first state law compelling children to go to school.

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

As of 2005, more than one - third of the city's parents chose either to enroll their child in a charter school, use a voucher to go to a private school, or seek out a place in a suburban public school.

At the Askwith Forum on November 17, Washington, D.C., Public Schools officials discussed how the district is going farther faster, together with its families, to create sustainable improvements in educational outcomes for all its children.

San Antonio parent Kerri Smith sent a two - page letter to every Texas official overseeing charters, explaining, «Had my children not been given the opportunity to attend a BASIS school, I truly fear that they would have continued to go through traditional public school in the middle of the pack, not reaching their full potential and not being fully prepared to go off to college one day.»

As much as 90 percent of these funds go to public schools, with the remainder going to selected center - based child - care providers.

If we are going to truly become the great public school system we want to become, we need to transform public education, and we need to transform it so that every child has access to a good public school.»

As both a former schoolteacher and a parent of two children who went through public schools, I am convinced that we need more effective ways to hold educators accountable, and I believe that testing has to be a part of an effective accountability program.

Fully 69 percent of the public, and a solid majority of every subgroup, say that they «would be willing to have a child [of theirs] go through high school taking some academic courses over the Internet» (Q. 8).

When parents grade their own child's public school, A or B grades go even higher, to 71 %.

Thus, those who now sharply criticize the public schools speak fondly of an era when most schools were racially segregated; when public schools were not required to accept children with physical, mental, and emotional handicaps; when there were relatively few students who did not speak or read English; and when few graduated from high school and went to college.

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More suburban public school parents anticipate that their child will go to a four - year college full time (57 %) than parents who live in urban areas (45 %) or rural areas (38 %).

Brinig and Garnett argue that, given their demonstrably positive impact across society, these schools should be given a fighting chance through mechanisms like tuition tax credits or vouchers, with public funds going to the child to enable students to attend an inner - city Catholic school.»

If I go that route (assuming my child gets in), I will need a car or access to reliable public transportation, as well as a flexible work schedule to take my child to and from school every day if transportation is not provided by the school.

But we have still a long way to go to overcome the forces of big money that are intent on privatizing our public schools, and imposing policies, including school closings, more high stakes testing, and the rapid expansion of online learning, that threaten to further damage our children and are unsupported by research.

Oklahoma, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Arizona public - school teachers have stuck children in the middle of a game of chicken, and that's why they think the taxpayers who pay their salaries are going to blink.