One program offers a tax credit to help offset the cost of tuition for families who move their children
from public schools designated as «failing» by the state to a private school.
Not exact matches
(2014) Directs each local
school board to adopt a policy to set aside, in each
school in the
school division, a non-restroom location that is shielded
from the
public view to be
designated as an area in which any mother who is employed by the local
school board or enrolled as a student may take breaks of reasonable length during the
school day to express milk to feed her child until the child reaches the age of one.
While this replaces the statutory approach of basing all accountability decisions on the separate performance of numerous student subgroups, including students
from low - income families, the assessment results for all of these «disadvantaged» student subgroups
designated in the ESEA statute must be reported each year and must be taken into account in determining performance consequences for
public schools.
Georgia's program also promised to
designate scholarships for students in «failing
public schools»
from low socioeconomic levels, but as a 2013 New York Times article exposed, the program has «[benefited] private
schools at the expense of needy children.»
This report examines data documenting students in New York City who have been
designated as «discharged»
from the
school system, an indicator that has received little
public attention.
But Alexandria
school officials said the academy costs are met entirely
from regular
public education funds, plus an extra amount the federal government allots annually for every student
designated an «English Language Learner,» no matter what
public school they attend.
On the other hand, finding the number of students in Indiana that attended a
public school for the preceding two semesters and who are
from families earning up to 150 percent of free and reduced - price lunch (FRL), students in the state that have an IEP and are
from families earning up to 200 percent of FRL, students who are zoned to attend a
school designated «F» and are
from families earning up to 150 percent of FRL, students and siblings of students who received a minimum of a $ 500 tax - credit scholarship in the previous year in Indiana, and students who received a voucher in the previous year in Indiana and are
from families earning up to 200 percent of FRL — :: deep breath:: — can take more than one day and be a bit eye - crossing.
Based on 2017 data, of the over 2,600
public schools in North Carolina, 505 of them are currently
designated as low - performing based on data
from our state's accountability system (that's an increase of 16
schools since 2015 - 16
school year).