Sentences with phrase «even scholarships to private schools»

«Today public education means district magnets, charters, virtual schooling, dual enrollment with colleges, and even scholarships to private schools,» he said.

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I have a 17 year old niece who is not planning to be her for her high school graduation and is not planning to go to college even though she got all sorts of scholarships and grants to go play soccer at a small private college.

In September, he gave his first six checks to fund two scholarships at St. Anne's - Belfield, the private high school he went to in Charlottesville (even though he and Megan had quietly funded two already, and those kids are about to head off to college).

However, it was a private school which we could not afford and they had no scholarships this year... but even before we found out they had no money to offer, we decided to homeschool.

Opposition continues in the Assembly even as supporters point to the dozens of lawmakers from both parties who have signed on in support of a version of the legislation, which would provide a tax credit to those who donate to public schools or to a scholarship program that benefits a private or parochial school.

Trump's conception, now reinforced by the DeVos appointment, promotes choice, broadly construed, to authorize charter schools, vouchers and opportunity scholarships including public, private, for profit, and maybe even religious schools.

August 1, 2017 — The 2017 Education Next annual survey of American public opinion on education shows public support for charter schools has dropped, even as opposition to school vouchers and tax credits for private - school scholarships has declined.

The 2017 Education Next annual survey of American public opinion on education shows public support for charter schools has dropped, even as opposition to school vouchers and tax credits for private - school scholarships has declined.

Instead, a scholarship to the right school — a private school in a time before charter schools even existed — lifted me up and made my education possible.

As discussed in greater detail below, Louisiana goes even further in using the scores to sanction or even evict private schools from its scholarship program if their students fail to achieve adequate scores.

A bill that would give poor children in New Jersey scholarships to attend private schools is bottled up in the Democratic - controlled Legislature even though it has the backing of prominent members of the party.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

The report examines tax policies in 20 states that have circumvented public opposition or even constitutional obstacles to publicly funded private school vouchers by using their tax codes to either encourage donations to private school scholarship funds, also known as neovouchers or backdoor vouchers or to offset the cost of private school tuition.

The Opportunity Scholarships program, an even larger voucher program that will enable taxpayer dollars to be funneled directly to private schools — $ 10 million in 2014 - 15 and $ 40 million in 2015 - 16, with the hope of expanding the program even further in the future.

In January, Fordham released a «toolkit» for policymakers that advocated requiring all private schools to administer the state test (i.e. — Common Core) and publish the results as a condition of accepting school vouchers or even tax - credit scholarships.

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

Even the Sentinel admits: «Despite the problems, the number of children using Florida's scholarship programs has more than tripled in the past decade to 140,000 students this year at nearly 2,000 private schools.»

The global strategy becomes even riskier for families if Pearson overestimates its ability to change laws in order to create private school scholarships.

The study found that Georgia's tuition tax credit program was funneling taxpayer dollars into private schools that were «condemn [ing] homosexuality on religious grounds; [p] unish [ing] gay students by excluding them from admission and scholarships or expelling and disciplining them because they are gay; [u] s [ing] textbooks and curricula that are harshly anti-gay — some even comparing gays to rapists and murderers; and [e] xpel [ling] or disciplin [ing] students in some cases for simply tolerating homosexuality.»

This enables scholarship organizations to work with families and schools to determine the amount necessary to finance a child's education, an amount usually far lower than government per - pupil spending or even many set voucher amounts; the average tuition at private schools is about half what is spent per pupil in the public system.

Hobgood noted that the private schools receiving the scholarships are not subject to any requirements or standards regarding the curriculum that they teach, have no requirements for student achievement, are not obligated to demonstrate any growth in student performance and are not even obligated to provide a minimum amount of instructional time.

It also zeroed out funding for the highly successful Washington, D.C., Opportunity Scholarship Program — even as he and the first lady exercised their parental choice to send their daughters to a very prestigious, expensive private school.

This reading was meant to raise scholarship money for a local school — a private school — even though White, when he moved to Maine from Manhattan, sent his child to the local public school.