Sentences with phrase «even attended a public school»

I was raised in a very Catholic home, never even attended a public school.

Many school districts, frustrated that they now had to pay an outside organization to educate students in their own districts, many of whom had not even attended public schools before, simply stopped making payments, causing WPCCS to lose nearly $ 1 million in 2001.

Not exact matches

We haven't even touched upon how many people can save a ton of money going to a public school like I did or attend community college for two years and then transfer to a public school for even more savings.

Even though I attended a public high school, where I took two biology courses, my teachers essentially skipped the first few chapters of our science textbook and declared them «too controversial» to teach.

Thus also the insistence of American public education on its «exclusive franchise» on legitimacy even though millions of children attend nonpublic schools.

In fact, you might even spend less than you would if they were attending a «free» public school.

On Tuesday evening in Brooklyn, school district 15, which includes parts of Sunset Park, Kensington, Park Slope, Carroll Gardens, and Red Hook, schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña will hold a town hall «from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at P.S. 516... Local elected officials including City Councilman Carlos Menchaca, Assemblyman Felix Ortiz and State Sen. Jesse Hamilton are expected to attend and answer questions from the public from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.,» according to DNAinfo.

All were educated in the United States; Brin and Yang even attended America's oft - maligned public schools.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

Americans» support for using public funds to pay for students to attend private schools apparently was growing even before the U.S. Supreme Court's June decision upholding the Cleveland voucher plan, findings from this year's Phi Delta Kappa / Gallup poll on public attitudes about education suggest.

Even more of the control group members attended high - performing public charter schools in their communities after losing the lottery.

But any state choosing this option would experience changes in how Title I funds get divided among and within its school districts — even if all poor students were to attend public schools.

But even when all students are included in the analysis, African - American students who attended private schools scored significantly higher than their public school peers (see Figure 2).

he letter said that African Americans receive about 35 percent of one - time suspensions and about 36 percent of expulsions, even though they account for only about 15 percent of students attending public schools.

The United Federation of Teachers, along with some parents whose children attend the New York City public schools, has filed a lawsuit against the city to force that repairs be made on what it calls «disgusting, demoralizing, and even dangerous buildings.»

Results using an alternative method designed to address concerns about unmeasured differences between students attending charter and traditional public high schools suggest even larger positive effects.

He maintained that «plaintiffs alleging equal protection violations must prove intent and causation and not merely the existence of racial disparity,» and that «public schooling, even in the South, should be controlled by locally elected authorities acting in conjunction with parents, and that it is desirable to permit pupils to attend schools nearest their homes.»

Liberty High School, a Houston public charter school serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending sSchool, a Houston public charter school serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending sschool serving recent immigrants, offers weekend and evening classes, providing students with flexible scheduling that enables them to work or handle other responsibilities while still attending schoolschool.

Even within the public sector, there are schools to which students are assigned based on geography and schools they choose to attend (magnet and charter schools, for example).

Inherent in the incentive concept is the assumption that parochial schools are so superior to public schools that the opportunity to attend the former is irresistible, even to those parents who do not want their children educated in a religious environment.

Because attending any of these schools is a pretty certain path to graduation and admission into a decent (or even stellar) university, all at public expense, the competition is fierce.

Across the board, in every country studied, what they found was that women retain the literacy skills they learned as young girls in school — even when they attended lowquality schools only for a couple of years — and then use those skills later, as mothers, to understand and connect with public health information disseminated through the media and through healthcare workers.

From a public policy standpoint, LeVine says their work is important because it shows — despite what many in education don't want to hear — that even low - quality schools and attending for only a few years can have a positive impact, especially in developing countries.

We focus our analysis on charter middle schools, because we are able to compare charter and traditional public school students who had similar entering test scores and demographic characteristics and even attended the same elementary school.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes BPublic Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Bpublic student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

A small fraction of students do attend public schools encompassing grades K — 8, 6 — 12, or even K — 12, however.

Even with the reopening of the County's public schools following the Griffin ruling, segregation supported by a voucher system and inequitable funding persisted.24 The County's board of supervisors devoted only $ 189,000 in funding for integrated public schools.25 At the same time, they allocated $ 375,000 that could effectively only be used by white students for «tuition grants to students attending either private nonsectarian schools in the County or public schools charging tuition outside the County.»

Before its effects are even known, he is looking to extend it, eliminating the restriction that vouchers go only to students who first attend public school.

43 - 241, students who can not attend public school because of illness, accident, or pregnancy, even with the aid of transportation, are eligible for medical homebound or hospitalized instruction.

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«Wisconsin now has more than 32,000 students statewide enrolled in its voucher plan, even though approximately three - quarters of the new students receiving that public money were already attending private schools.

Same with transportation costs: Like special education, the district is responsible for transportation, even for its residents who do not attend public schools.

Even more impressive: Consider that another 1 million students are on waiting lists nationwide to attend a public charter school.

With an influx of 40 - plus new students (the law requires this year's Opportunity Scholarship holders to be former public school attendees, meaning that last year's group of students attending Greensboro Islamic Academy would not qualify for vouchers), it's not clear how the prior financial needs of GIA will be met, given that a larger student population will demand even more resources.

Because more students aren't attending public school first, Fort Wayne schools never even saw those kids.

Keele found that even though the Constitution requires the Legislature to establish and maintain free public schools, the General Assembly is not precluded from also supporting students who attend private schools.

A public school district would see a loss of aid from the state for each student who attends a private voucher school even if that student never attended a public district school, under the proposal.

DPI hasn't tried to figure out how many Racine voucher students were attending private school or even, in some cases, whether they were attending Racine public schools, so it's hard to know how strong that effect is.

Even better, attend the school board meeting at 5 pm in the Doyle Building, and consider making public comments to the board (instructions here).

Tracking the special education dollars that support services for students with disabilities attending public schools is complicated; attempting to track the funds to autonomous public charter schools is even more so.

For example, a recent study found that even A-rated public schools in New York City have remediation rates of over 50 % for their graduates who attend the City University of New York.

Going back to 2000, we have not only seen the number of homeschoolers double, we have seen the number of students who attend a public charter school or enroll in a private school choice program grow in even larger numbers.

the proportion of scholarship students who switched (or were likely to switch) out of public schools vs. those who already were in (or were likely to attend) private schools even without the assistance of the scholarship

Malloy's sound bites are repeated ad nauseam even if the facts are twisted to better suit his message.A national reform movement is led by a TFA dropout, Michelle Rhee (www.Rheefirst.com), who is backed by billionaires whose children will never attend a lowly public school system.

Students in those towns are eligible for vouchers to attend public schools in other towns or non-religious private schools, even outside the state.

Similarly, a 2007 report by the GAO found these students to be «underrepresented» in the program: in the 2006 - 2007 school year, even though 52 % of DC public school students attended SINI schools, only 24 % of voucher students came from such schools.

Over time, the charter school students affected by the concentration cap will face even larger funding gaps compared to students attending traditional public schools.

Note that according to the Connecticut State Department of Education's own data, Capital Prep doesn't even do as well as the same demographic cohort of students attending the rest of Hartford Public School System.

Really a poll in California of 1,710 adults, not even parents of kids who attend public school.

Even more shocking was Gov. Jay Nixon's decision that same month to veto legislation co-authored by his arch-nemesis, Rep. Maria Chappelle - Nadal, that would have allowed for kids in failing districts to attend higher - quality public and private schools in the area shows the callousness of state officials when it comes to providing kids with high - quality educational options.