Sentences with phrase «families send their children to private school»

It's too soon to draw sweeping conclusions about the academic impact of privately financed programs that provide vouchers to help needy families send their children to private schools, the General Accounting Office concludes in a recent report.

The program, also known as Opportunity Scholarships, uses taxpayer dollars to help low - income families send their children to private schools.

Not exact matches

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

Marker cautions families who choose to send their children with special needs to private schools to make sure they communicate with the schools about their special education needs.

(D.C. school officials would certainly like to know who those children are, since families making that kind of money typically send their kids to one of the private schools that proliferate here.

What is even sadder is that those parents often come from families that can't afford to send their children to private and parochial schools to avoid the insanity of this program.

Orthodox families, however, send their children to yeshivas, or Jewish private schools.

And then there is his substantial baggage: sending children to private schools, his shares (recently relinquished) in a family company that doesn't pay a living wage or recognise trade unions, and previously owning shares in a tax - haven firm.

In addition to contacting private companies, parents had also considered giving children at the school large plastic bags to store their coats, backpacks and other belongings, according to a letter sent out to families this week from P.S. 87's parent coordinator.

For example, if a child has a difference in his or her family background which the child is unable to overcome and consequently can't attend a public school, public funds may be used to send the child to a private school.

He also emerged as a leading proponent of a federal tax credit for low - income families who send their children to private schools.

The credits cut taxes on businesses that donate to non-profit scholarship organizations, and those organizations help needy families who want to send their children to private schools.

It is manifest in the residential choices made by families... [and] when families, sometimes at great financial sacrifice, decide to send their children to private schools....

It is still possible that adults who attended religious schools have more favorable attitudes toward Jews because of unobserved advantages but this seems unlikely given that the generally more advantaged families who send children to non-religious private schools do not appear to yield lower anti-Semitism.

In 2010 and 2011, we asked instead about «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help parents send their children to private schools,» language that implies the scholarships could be used by any family, regardless of income.

Wealthy families can afford to live in districts with high - performing government schools or to send their children to private schools.

Students must come from low - income families who, except for the Cristo Rey program, would not be able to send their child to an academically superior private school.

Meanwhile, advocates invoked the «hypocrisy» of voucher critics in Congress who were rich enough to send their own children to private schools but would deny that option to the city's poorer families.

School voucher programs, which allow eligible families to send their children to private schools with the help of public funds, have sparked controversy since the first such initiative was launched in Milwaukee in 1991.

Wealthy families can afford to live in districts with high - performing government schools or send their children to private schools.

Pence won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap, which was previously $ 4,800, on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

In several of America's cities, public schools have long been dangerous or academically troubled; for families with means, the solution has been to send their children to expensive private schools or to move to better public - school districts.

Pence has won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap (previously $ 4,800) on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

The Nevada ESA program means families who could never before afford to send their child to private school now have the ability to do so.

Williams was also concerned about the raising of income caps for the voucher program, as this gradually shifted funding toward families who were already sending their children to private schools.

Both the Wisconsin and Milwaukee Parental Choice Programs allow families to send their children to private schools tuition - free through a voucher program.

If that's the case, why spend money to advertise the Opportunity Scholarship program to families who already have the means to send their children to private schools?

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

and Susan Collins (R - Maine) haven't given up on their bid to save the federally funded voucher program that allows low - income families in the District to send their children to private schools.

Through the Choice programs, families are able to send their children to the private school of their choice — at no cost to the family.

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

These government funded dollars will serve as tuition payments for families who want to send their children to a private school of choice.

In 1990, Milwaukee parents were given a choice that no other families in the country had: They could send their children to private schools for free with taxpayer - funded vouchers.

Only about half of the private schools participating in voucher programs provided special education or disability related information on their websites, creating a significant problem for families making a decision about where to send their children.

A voucher is an allotment of money from the government that families can use to send their children to a private school.

The state's voucher program provides taxpayer funds for families to send their children to private schools.

Last year, the taxpayers of Indiana paid out $ 146.1 million to voucher schools, with most of it going to families who would have sent their children to private school anyway.

Imagine the state pays for low - income families to send their children to private schools, many of them operated by the local Catholic archdiocese.

Some Syrian families have found ways to supplement or replace the public school system by sending their children to private schools or informal ones run by NGOs and religious organizations, including some that teach the Syrian rather than Lebanese curriculum.

In some neighborhoods, families have a choice of sending their children to high - performing district schools or affording a private or parochial education; meanwhile, many families in low - performing districts who can not afford to pay tuition have no high - quality choices — or can't gain access to the handful that do exist.

The president's budget features a $ 1.4 billion school choice package that includes millions of dollars in vouchers that low - income families could use to send their children to private, religious schools.

This bill clearly demonstrates that legislators» «school choice» agenda is about providing subsidies to wealthy families that send their kids to private schools and NOT about ensuring that all students, including poor children, have access to a quality education.

The reason: many families who send their children to private schools cross district lines.

Even in tough economic times, schools have made assisting families who want to send their children to private school a top priority in their budgets.

Affluent families can move to different neighborhoods, send their children to private schools, and supplement schooling with enrichment opportunities.

It's an oft - noted irony of the confrontation in Chicago that Mayor Rahm Emanuel sends his children to the private, $ 20,000 - a-year University of Chicago Lab School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to rSchool, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to rschool system he is trying to reform.

This change to 529 savings accounts immediately benefit wealthy families who already send their children to private schools, but now they will be able to offset their tuition that they already intended to pay for, but now can receive a tax credit for it.

Wealthier families can afford to live in districts with better district schools or send their children to private schools.

This may sound like a reasonable option for parents interested in sending their children to private schools, but in reality the plan would do little to help many families with the cost.