Sentences with phrase «education parents desperate»

Grand theft education Parents desperate for better schools shouldn't be prosecuted for cheating Washington Times op - ed by K. Lloyd Billingsley, editorial director at the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy

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I have thought about this a lot and I think I would do what parents Tanya McDowell, Kelley Williams - Bolar, and Yolanda Hill did if I were desperate enough to get my child a good education.

All of their children qualify for the Empowerment Account program and each of the parents is in desperate need of finding a stable, secure source of funding to pay for the cost of their child's education.

Like many of the parents I met while canvassing the area, the mother was deeply invested in her child's academic success, desperate for more high - quality educational options and fearful that her child wouldn't get the education he needs to have a bright future.

Few parents have the time, energy or education policy experience to go hunting for the facts on which schools are actually helping all their students learn, which ones are in desperate need of support, and which ones are eking it out for affluent kids but still failing to deliver an equal education to every child.

There is no shortage of school choice proponents willing to let the NAACP off the hook for siding with union bosses against parents desperate for quality education choices for their children.

Of course, the reformers don't really care about the education of poor children — they see the lure of school choice and charter schools as the bait for parents frustrated by the systemic defunding of their local public schools, especially in urban centers, and who are desperate for any option that promises a better alternative.

Frustrated and growing desperate, they attended Raising Kids Twogether, a relationship and marriage education (RME) course for young parents offered by Healthy Relationships California (HRC).