Sentences with phrase «elite private and public schools»

The country still has a multi-tiered system, with low - income students frequently shut out of the most elite private and public schools.

She says the typical Waldorf parent, who has a range of elite private and public schools to choose from, tends to be liberal and highly educated, with strong views about education; they also have a knowledge that when they are ready to teach their children about technology they have ample access and expertise at home.

Not exact matches

On the question of whether public funding for elite private schools that charge more than $ 10,000 per year per student in tuition should be eliminated, 75 per cent of respondents agreed and more than half, 53 per cent, agreed strongly.

But the NDP Government led by Premier Rachel Notley gives the impression it would be just as happy if the private school funding issue would go away, notwithstanding the strong public support for defunding elite private schools and a general lack of public enthusiasm for private schools.

Today, the rich attend private schools and elite public schools in wealthy suburbs.

He also supports education tax credits for parents who send their kids to private schools, and is against «dumbing down» admission standards to the city's elite public high schools.

First - generation college students, pupils from public (as opposed to elite private) high schools, and students from financially disadvantaged families are all underrepresented in the undergraduate population.

So his parents took him out of public school and, at the beginning of seventh grade, sent him to Lakeside, a private school that catered to Seattle's elite families.»

He believed that it was a serious civil - rights violation for the city's elite public schools to use race - blind admissions standards, while his own children attended exclusive private schools where money, connections, and «culture» played a major role in the admissions process.

«My analysis looks at two high school English teachers — one at an elite private school serving mostly economically advantaged white students, and one at a public charter school serving largely low - SES students of color.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Daniella Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

In 1981, 15 percent of the nearly 2.9 million Chilean K — 12 students had been attending private schools that received some public subsidy, and another 7 percent attended elite, unsubsidized private schools.

As a young girl from Queens, Natasha Rivera participation in programs run by Prep for Prep — a leadership development organization for gifted students of color in New York City public schools — opened doors to many opportunities including a scholarship to an elite private school and paid internships.

«Those taking the exams in the early years were largely male, largely students from private prep schools and elite public high schools, and probably mostly Protestant.»

She also dragged out the tired argument that the gap between rich and poor will be exacerbated by «giving a public subsidy to affluent families that choose elite private schools, which are unlikely to admit students who struggle academically or can not afford tuition even with a voucher.»

There are some great district public schools that don't use admissions tests... sure wish there was more discussion of those and more questioning of elite quasi private schools like the one mentioned above.

Obama was partly home schooled and spent high school in an elite private boys school, and I think it informs his attitude toward public education.

Meanwhile, despite the fact that many «reformers»» policies have spectacularly failed, prompted massive scandals and / or offered no actual proof of success, an elite media that typically amplifies — rather than challenges — power and money loyally casts «reformers»» systematic pillaging of public education as laudable courage (the most recent example of this is Time magazine's cover cheering on wildly unpopular Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel after he cited budget austerity to justify the largest mass school closing in American history — all while he is also proposing to spend $ 100 million of taxpayer dollars on a new private sports stadium).

Heck, even Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in the country.

By contrast, the UCP led by Jason Kenney is enthusiastic and unstinting in its support for private schools, including continued use of public funds for high - tuition elite private schools that in Alberta charge up to $ 26,000 per year per student.