Sentences with phrase «eligible for school choice»

Forty percent of families whose parents were dropouts didn't know if their kids were eligible for school choice, versus 24 percent of families whose parents were had baccalaureate degrees.

Not exact matches

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cSchools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cschools controlling their choices.

The exact amount that each educator will receive in Teacher's Choice funds for the coming school year will be determined by the Department of Education during the summer, once it has a clearer sense of the total number of eligible educators.

Ballots don't come with lists of eligible choices so it's up to each member to think up a list and since the category is «under 21» it takes a bit of research for the teen / young adult performances; as is Hollywood tradition almost everyone playing high schoolers in Lady Bird or Spider - Man Homecoming are in their early - to - mid 20s.

Experimental evaluations take the complete population of students who are eligible for a choice program and motivated to use it, then employ a lottery to randomly assign some students to receive a school - choice voucher or scholarship and the rest to serve in the experimental control group.

In addition to rescinding regulations on K - 12 school accountability and teacher preparation programs, as well as guidance that jeopardized due process for alleged sexual assault perpetrators, Trump worked with Congress to advance school choice in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which made private - school tuition eligible for 529 savings plans.

Romney's major proposal would expand school choice by essentially turning $ 15 billion in Title I funding and $ 12 billion in IDEA funds into «vouchers» that eligible students could spend to attend any district, charter, or private school (state law permitting) or for tutoring programs or digital courses.

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Students from families with household incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line (slightly less than $ 70,000 for a family of four) are eligible, making these programs more examples of inclusive school - choice programs created last year.

With this program, some families may be eligible for tuition assistance and scholarship programs that would allow them to attend another private or public school of their choice and avoid the low - achieving school system they may be currently in.

A recent analysis by The Century Foundation demonstrated that voucher programs tend to benefit the most advantaged students eligible for the programs.61 Widespread enactment of private school choice in other nations such as Sweden and Chile has led to increasingly economically segregated schools.62

AFC believes a federal tax credit to inspire charitable giving by corporations and individuals to state non-profits who provide scholarships for eligible children to attend a school of their parents» choice would have the greatest impact for children in need.

The plan vastly expands school choice opportunities in PA by creating an Opportunity Scholarship Program, which would provide tuition assistance for eligible students to attend a public or non-public school of their choice.

If you update your school choice later, work with your school's financial aid office to be sure you receive any aid for which you are eligible.

Grant aid awards will be made for the first eligible college listed on the FAFSA form; however, if you update your school choice later, please notify your state agency by accessing the Office of Student Financial Assistance student portal.

That's why, when I worked for Tony Blair, I helped introduce a new right of access — clauses 95 and 96 of the guidance — for pupils eligible for free school meals to free travel to a choice of three schools rather than the one designated by the local authority.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

The bill was written to let schools eligible for the Choice Scholarship program decide whether to administer the ISTEP exam to assess student learning.

Those waivers... allow school systems to avoid the NCLB mandate that they use 20 percent of Title I funds for after - school tutoring and transportation for school choice to eligible students.

When eligible, these programs pay all school tuition and fees — making Catholic education a viable choice for all families.

When eligible, this program pays all school tuition and fees — making Catholic education a viable choice for all families.

We urge school choice advocates to work with Congress and the Administration to pass a federal tax credit to encourage charitable giving to state non-profits who will provide scholarships for eligible children to attend the school of their parents» choice.»

Ohio students attending chronically low - performing public schools are eligible for Educational Choice vouchers to attend private schools.

Under a draft admissions code, children eligible for the pupil premium would have first choice on school places.

Heritage would like to see all 800,000 school - age children of active - duty families eligible for the same, including in states that don't allow private - school choice.

But Tom McMillen, director of Student and Parent Choice for the Douglas County School District, said only five eligible students had applied to the School Choice Grant Program.

As part of the program, children attending public schools rated below average can enter a lottery for LSP vouchers providing tuition at eligible private schools of their choice.

My parents were given a choice: because I had a disability, I could be treated as a gifted student, eligible for the «mini-schools» at two of the twenty or so schools in the district, or be treated as a disabled student, eligible for «special learning» in «the trailers» at my high school; I was the only student to that point who was thrown out of the special learning program for reading books at a far - too - advanced level; When I was dismissed, I was reading John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, a book about medieval castle battlement defenses, and (all at the same time) a book called «You can trust a communist — to be a communist».

The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) and the state Legislature ultimately approved this recommendation, and the Legislature passed Act 482, making all students at all public middle and high schools eligible for Course Choice offerings.

, the elementary school that intentionally seeks out students from the North Nashville area and operates with the expectation that every child will be eligible for Martin Luther King, Jr. magnet high school and, ultimately, the college of their choice.