Sentences with phrase «district public or private school»

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Many of the schools we serve are private schools, and the public districts we do serve have Free and Reduced rates below 10 % [i.e, fewer than 10 % of the kids qualify for free or reduced price lunch.]

Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.

Although numerous parents choose public education because it is a free resource and may be a good option depending on the school district, increasing numbers of families are discovering the benefits of choosing another option, such as private school or homeschooling.

Just to give you an idea of what we do — the core of our customers are small and medium sized public and private schools (or districts) that typically do not have the adequate infrastructure to cook from scratch or the economies of scale in their buying power to source our level of ingredients.

Cuomo unveiled a revised version of the legislation on Tuesday, which would provide $ 150 million in tax credits annually for donations that benefit public and private schools, and encourage low - income students to attend either a private school or a public school in another district.

Forward - thinking candidates know that educational and economic justice means expanding school choice to all and not just families that can afford private - school tuition, tutors or suburban homes in the best public school districts,» said NYIA spokesman Robert Bellafiore.

Residents can choose from public or private educational institutions including the Lewiston - Porter or Niagara - Wheatfield School Districts, Stella Niagara Educational Park, Sacred Heart Villa, St. Peter's R.C. School, Niagara University and Niagara County Community College.

Half of that money would be used to fund scholarships for low - and middle - income children to attend public schools outside their district or private and parochial schools.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

The program allows businesses to receive an 85 percent tax credit on contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low - and middle - income families attending the private school, home school, or out - of - district public school of their choice.

Within school districts, Title I funds would follow each poor student to the school he or she attends, public or private.

Back in 2004, Spencer Hsu told the story of how the first federal voucher program was launched, when George W. Bush signed legislation providing grants worth as much as $ 7,500 each to children from dozens of public schools in the District of Columbia for their use at private or religious schools in a five - year experiment.

And to receive federal dollars, districts must give parents the freedom to use this information to select the school of their choice — traditional public, charter, or private.

The budget also creates the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other services.

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

While the school district contended that the language of IDEA demanded attendance at a public school first, the Second Circuit had already ruled in a prior case that this was an incorrect reading of the law, and could unreasonably require parents either to place children in an inadequate program or shoulder the financial burden of a private education, a result it called «absurd.»

It stipulated that a teacher coming into the system from any other school district (either public or private) could not be given salary credit for more than five years of previous teaching experience.

They also have the right to pursue legal action if they and the district can not agree on what services their child will receive and whether the public school or a private provider will deliver those services.

The College Board relies on K - 12 schools, both public and private, to determine students» eligibility for accommodations, and it is widely acknowledged that, from district to district or state to state, there is no consistency regarding the identification or assessment of students with learning disabilities.

«I actually don't think the reasons schools work have anything to do with whether they're a charter public, a district public, a private, or a parochial school,» he says.

Some districts in the largely rural state have long - standing voucher - like programs, called «tuitioning,» in which they pay to enroll students at secular private schools or public schools in other districts when...

But unlike the procedures established under IDEA, school - voucher laws give parents the right to select a private placement without having to convince public school officials of the need for such services, to say nothing of the legal costs of proving to a hearing officer, or a state court judge, that the decision of the school district was in error.

Called public - private partnerships, these can involve a district negotiating with a company to build a school; then the company leases the building to the district for the life of the building, about 20 or 30 years.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

For reformers, the idea is that school districts or chartering agencies should be able to contract with private firms to operate public schools - especially failing ones - in order to take advantage of the greater flexibility, expertise, efficiency, and innovation that the marketplace might offer.

Competition, whether it comes from vouchers, independent private schools, public charter schools, or the breaking up of oversize districts, is the tonic to which Hoxby's work most clearly points.

State and federal law require each public school district and each approved private school to report to OSPI all known incidents involving the possession of weapons on school premises, transportation systems, or in areas of facilities while being used exclusively by public or private schools.

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.

So my compromise position would be to acknowledge parents» right to choose their children's schools (which, for low income parents, effectively means allowing them to take public dollars with them), while at the same time being vigorous in shutting off public dollars to schools (whether they be district, private or charter schools) that are failing to prepare students to succeed on measurable academic outcomes.

On the basis of a sample of 1,800 public - school districts and 800 private schools, the survey estimated that some 1.4 million school employees and 15 million students, or 34 percent of all students nationwide, spend their days in schools that contain friable asbestos.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

Submit a letter of termination to the school district superintendent upon completion of the home education program, enrollment in a public or private school or moving from the district.

Mitt Romney has pledged that if elected president he will enact a voucher program that would allow parents of low - income and special needs students «to choose from any district or public charter school, or a private school where permitted by state law.»

In this regard, edfirms are much like a public charter school or private school, but are «owned» by the teachers (instead of a board of trustees) and are licensed by a school district.

Q: Public school districts would be required to allow students who are home schooled, attend an independent or virtual charter school or attend private schools to participate in sports or extracurricular activities.

Charters can make a school district more attractive, bringing families who left for private schools or home schooling back into public schools.

Although the term «choice» is often associated with privately governed charter schools or private school voucher proposals, the vast majority of schools of choice are operated by public school districts.

For the initial criminal history check, each noninstructional contractor who is subject to the criminal history check shall file with the Department of Law Enforcement a complete set of fingerprints taken by an authorized law enforcement agency or an employee of a school district, a public school, or a private company who is trained to take fingerprints.

Under the OSA, businesses receive tax credits worth 85 percent of their contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations, which provide scholarships for low - and middle - income children to pay tuition at private schools or out - of - district public schools or to cover eligible homeschooling expenses.

When students are tuitioned at public schools, the sending town pays the receiving school district or private school an amount equal to the receiving school's expenses of operation, as estimated by the state board of education the preceding year.

In securing a non-inclusive setting for a preschool child with special needs, school districts should consider the appropriateness of a kindergarten placement, Head Start programs, public or private preschool programs, community - based child development centers or care facilities, or a child's home.

Each school district must and a state supported public school or a private school may develop and maintain a system by which members of the instructional staff may demonstrate mastery of professional education competence as required by law.

Through this program, students who reside in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District can receive vouchers to attend neighboring public schools or private schools.

A federal district court in Iowa held that a state tax deduction for school expenses, including private school tuition, does not violate the Establishment Clause because it is available to parents regardless of whether their child attends a public, private or religious school, neither advances nor inhibits religion, and does not entangle the state with religion.

The six performance management principles and their accompanying practices in the MSM Field Guide are, however, based on a large supply of case studies from both the private and public sectors, along with professional opinions of practitioners and researchers who have experienced or witnessed meaningful, sustained improvement in performance - driven schools and districts.

«Saddling school districts with the costs of private assessments that fail to or only marginally address the educational needs of a child with disabilities results in a significant waste of limited public funds.»

He has served in educational leadership or research positions in private industry, in an urban public school district, in a state department of education, and at the university level.

Parents deserve to know that rich public school options, such as Magnets, exist within their own district, that not all charter schools welcome or keep every child or that private schools accessed by Corporate Tax Scholarships may not be accredited.