Sentences with phrase «individuals attended public schools»

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Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

A number of the individual donors did not come from money, but attended public schools before amassing their fortunes.

That's why the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) allows children with disabilities to attend private schools at public expense when their districts can not provide a free, appropriate public education (FAPE).

Controlling for individual fixedeffects, I compare the test scores of students selected to attend a participating private school with those of unsuccessful applicants and other students from the Milwaukee public schools.

Indeed, in a certain sense, special ed vouchers have already existed nationwide for some 35 years under the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, which allows special ed students to attend private school at public expense.

Finally, an individual student's academic success depends not so much on whether he or she attends a private or public school but rather on a complex interaction of abilities, attitudes, and strengths or problems brought to school; the skills and knowledge of teachers; and the quality of the learning environment.

While the President's FY 2012 Budget requests funding to improve D.C. public schools and expand high - quality public charter schools, the Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.

In addition, we also control for whether the individual student had been retained in a grade, whether the student had ever been retained, and whether the student attends a charter school (which in Florida are more likely than traditional public schools to have K — 8 configurations).

In 1969, the U.S. DOJ intervened for the plaintiffs who sued the state of Mississippi in Coffey v. State Educational Finance Commission.45 In the five years before the case made it to the Supreme Court, the state offered vouchers for students to exercise «individual freedom in choosing public or private school,» which provided them with the opportunity to choose to attend racially segregated schools.46 Originally only offering $ 180 per student in 1964, the state Legislature increased the amount of each voucher to be $ 240 per student in 1968.47

While giving students vouchers to attend private schools may benefit individual students, it will slowly kill our public schools, and leave the vast majority of Americans without an institution that is essential to turning young kids into good citizens.

To solve our state's graduation crisis, we must turn around our persistently low - performing schools, attract, retain and reward effective teachers, dismiss ineffective teachers, and create more public school choices so that no child is forced to attend a school that doesn't meet his or her individual needs and learning style.

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

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The student must have an Individual Education Plan, district provided services plan or a nonpublic school created service plan; and is eligible to attend a Louisiana public school.

Pursuant to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, any individual with a disability who requires reasonable accommodation to attend or participate in this meeting of the governing board may request assistance by contacting Thrive Public Schools during normal business hours at 4260 54th Street, San Diego, CA 92115, [phone] as far in advance as possible, but no later than 24 hours before the meeting.

Although some individual charter schools have their struggles, the study suggests that students who attend charters generally may be better off than if they had gone to traditional public schools in their communities.

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These benefits, which accrue to both individuals and the public at large, are mostly due to improved long - term outcomes among children who participate in high - quality early learning programs: they are more likely to be high school graduates, attend postsecondary education, and own assets (such as a home)-- and they are less likely to be caught up in the cycle of mass incarceration.