Sentences with phrase «first attend public school»

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.

Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would allow siblings of current Choice Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.

Not exact matches

«At that time Anita and Ben... certainly in their public statements, were very clear,» says Wild Planet's Grossman, who first attended an SVN meeting as an intern while he was earning his M.B.A. from Stanford Business School.

Released time to allow public school students to attend religious education at a church - owned building was specifically confirmed by the US Supreme Court as consistent with the First Amendment decades ago.

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.

«As the mother of two young kids who attend New York City public schools, I know first - hand how important it is for children to eat lunch at school,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, a Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Kids Safety Caucus.

In 8th grade was when I attended my first public school.

For instance, during a panel I attended, Helen Phillips, senior director of school nutrition at Norfolk Public Schools in Virginia, described her early transition to healthier meals in 2008, when the Institute of Medicine, a scientific advisory body, first released its school nutrition recommendations.

All but Turnbull and O'Donnell attended British public schools, and all but two, Hankey and O'Donnell, went to Oxbridge — perhaps here we will see a future change, the first female Cabinet Secretary?

Gabay, who grew up living in public housing and attended public school in the Bronx, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, an assistant counsel to Cuomo and first deputy general counsel at Empire State Development Corp. at the time of his school in the Bronx, was a graduate of Harvard Law School, an assistant counsel to Cuomo and first deputy general counsel at Empire State Development Corp. at the time of his School, an assistant counsel to Cuomo and first deputy general counsel at Empire State Development Corp. at the time of his death.

Newly - elected mayor Bill DeBlasio made history as the first mayor with children attending public school.

Attacking new teacher evaluation systems that are, for the first time, enabling district public schools to make decisions based on teacher quality, does violence to the cause of improving the quality of education for the overwhelming majority of students who don't attend charter schools.

Those awarded scholarships on Thursday were 12th graders Tyriek Watt, who attends Medgar Evers College Preparatory School; Danny Espinal - Alvarez, who attends the High School For Public Policy; and Rae - Anne Clarke, who attends Achievement First Brooklyn High School.

Her family has now moved to Evanston, Illinois and Cady will be attending public school for the first time in her life.

In 2014 — 15, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah were respectively ranked first, second, and third among states in the percentage of K — 12 public school students attending charter schools.

Murphy High, the school she attended in Mobile, was one of the first in Alabama to begin integrating black and white students in 1963, despite public protests by the state's then - governor, George Wallace, who famously said during his inaugural address that same year, «Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.»

First, the majority of students in central cities, in both the public charter sector and in the traditional public sector, attend intensely segregated minority schools.

When Margery Yeager, special assistant for transformation management for the D.C. public schools, attended her first school closing meeting in 2008 — she's now helped close 28 schools — the meeting was so contentious that, she recalls, «I honestly thought at the time, «I don't know how we will make this happen because there is just such vocal opposition.

Their first method analyzed information on 1,475 students (20 % of the total 7,338 sample) who had attended schools with a voucher for part of their education but had also been in public schools.

In the fall of 1980, when a group of senior education scholars was coming to NORC to critique the first drafts of «Public and Private Schools» and the other reports emanating from the «High School and Beyond» baseline data, Coleman told his graduate students that we were expected to attend the sessions and the associated luncheon.

For example, Figure 1 shows that 45 percent of students who first participated in FTC in elementary or middle school attended a public college in Florida within two years of expected high school graduation, compared to 39 percent of matched non-FTC students.

Ambitious, low - income high - school students would know that if they want to attend college at public expense (probably their only option), they would first need to become «college - ready.»

Jewish Day school alumni attend their first - choice college at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.

In the voucher program's first five years, more than $ 27 million that could have gone toward reduction of class size or other reforms for the 76,000 children who attend Cleveland's public schools was instead diverted to vouchers.

Looking separately at the effect of attending a charter school for exiters reveals that the effect of attending a charter school is, in fact, considerably more negative than for students who were observed first in a traditional public school and remained in a charter school throughout the study period (see Figure 2).

We first limited our attention to the 92 percent of public school students in the state attending schools with a private competitor within a five - mile radius.

In order to be eligible for an FTC scholarship, students must meet the income guidelines (until recently, family incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line for new applicants) and either must have attended a Florida public school for the full school year before program entry or be entering kindergarten or first grade.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

For the first time in U.S. history, a majority of children attending public schools are students of color.

The child of Puerto Rican immigrants, Nieto attended New York City public schools, then, as an adult, began teaching at the first bilingual school in New York.

Thus, in its first year, 90 percent of Indiana Scholarship students had previously attended a public school, but by 2016 — 17, over half — 55 percent — had never attended one.

First, we assess whether the private schools attended by students using state - funded vouchers offer more or less racially segregated environments than those available to students who remain in public schools.

Refreshments were also served to parents, there were door prizes, and the Hartford Public Library issued library cards to every family who attended First Day of School programs.

Students with household incomes less than 300 % of the federal poverty guidelines, and who either attended public school the prior year or are entering kindergarten or first grade are eligible to receive scholarships to attend private schools approved by the scholarship foundation.

Scholarships must be awarded to students who qualify for the free or reduced - price lunch program and are either entering kindergarten or first grade, or attended a public school the previous school year.

The findings reported above represent the first systematic evidence that Americans» perceptions of the quality of their local public schools reflect publicly available information about the academic achievement of the students who attend them.

In addition, all students applying for the WPCP must meet one of the following attendance requirements for 2016 - 17: (1) have attended a public school in Wisconsin in the prior school year; (2) not have been enrolled in school in the prior school year; (3) applying to attend kindergarten, first, or ninth grades for the coming school year; or (4) participated in the WPCP or Racine Parental Choice Program (RCPC) in the 2015 - 16 school year.

Kindergartners, first graders, foster children, dependents of full - time active military members and children that have been adopted in the past year qualify for vouchers without having to attend a public school.

Achievement in math, science, social studies and reading all declined in the first year that students attended voucher schools; that's compared with students who struck out in the lottery and stayed at their low - performing public schools.

«In 1960, six - year - old Ruby Bridges became the first African - American child to attend an all - white public elementary school in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New Orschool in the South when she was escorted by U.S. marshals into William Frantz School in New OrSchool in New Orleans.

However, no one who attended the conference was ready at that time to announce publicly their intention to create one of WA's first 8 public charter schools.

Currently, the law requires students to meet one of seven requirements for eligibility, among which includes having previously attended public school — unless you are entering kindergarten or the first grade.

Subjects were asked to provide details on the type of school they attended each year between first and 12th grades, including whether the school was public or private, whether it was religious or secular and whether it was affiliated with a particular religious institution.

First let's look at the money spent on the 6,000 students who actually attend public schools.

While the bill may seem nonthreatening at first, 80 percent of military - connected students currently attend public schools, and many of those schools rely on Impact Aid funding.

In the first two years of the program, scholarship organizations were required to award 70 percent of scholarship funds to students who previously attended a public school («switchers») or to switchers who already received a scholarship.

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

During the 2011 - 2012 school year — the first year vouchers were available — around 10 percent of students using vouchers never attended an Indiana public school.

The new rules preserve that requirement for most families, but would allow two groups — special needs students and siblings of current voucher recipients — to receive a scholarship without attending public school first.

This summer students will begin attending the SEED School of Miami, Florida's first residential public sSchool of Miami, Florida's first residential public schoolschool.