Sentences with phrase «go to private schools compared»

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My kids are going to be eating in a private school cafeteria over summer so I'm interested to see what their offerings are compared to the public school we attend during the year.

UCL data about the education of 525 of the new MPs shows that of these 25 % went to private schools — compared with just 7 % of the general population.

For instance, about 20 percent of public school teachers went to such schools, compared with 36 percent of charter school teachers and 36 percent of private school teachers (see Figure 1).

Responding to a question asking how they feel about going to school each day, 24 percent of the public - school students said they didn't want to go, compared with 9 percent of private - school students.

Moreover, in practice, the «choice» program has been plagued by lack of accountability (no state testing requirements), fraud (private operators taking off with the state aid check, leaving the kids without a school to go to, and MPS to try to deal with it), refusal to accept handicapped children, continued leeching off public schools for lab courses, and — most significantly — absolutely no educational advantage whatsoever for the «choice» students compared to their public school counterparts, which was the ostensible justification for this whole fiasco in the first place.