Sentences with phrase «just in the private school»

The potential for change is happening not just in the private school sector, but in the public school arena.

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«We're staffed to really support not just independent private schools like ourselves, but in the future, public schools where the majority of kids are educated,» said AltSchool CEO Max Ventilla.

The tree - lined streets with multimillion dollar homes in these areas provide big lots and privacy, while also being just minutes away from favourite restaurants or «a great Starbucks,» highly regarded private schools, and a short drive to work.

By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

The school is accredited to offer just a half - dozen degrees, according to California's bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, including an associate's degree in nursing, a bachelor's in biblical studies, a master's in Asian medicine and a doctorate in ministry.

Seriously, no drinks with caffeine, «secret» private wedding ceremonies (if you aren't mormon or married, you aren't allowed in their temple), seminary classes held on school campuses, anti-gay (Prop 8...), and encouraging their kids to marry early and have tons of kids (not all... but it's pretty stereotypical... just look at BYU.

So when there are discussions about the best programs in the Section, Vanden is just an afterthought, despite all the success, and in spite of the inherent advantages of private schools and magnet schools.

But just a few days later, I found myself making my second trip to the mall in two days because the oldest got a much - needed sweater for his private school interviews and the middle one was beside himself that I hadn't gotten him a sweater too.

We have just started home educating - until now my children have been in a private school.

Just to give you an idea of what we do — the core of our customers are small and medium sized public and private schools (or districts) that typically do not have the adequate infrastructure to cook from scratch or the economies of scale in their buying power to source our level of ingredients.

A new state law passed in April gives the city just two options to meet the demands of the Success Academy network: It can hand over free space in public or private buildings, or give the schools money to find their own space.

Forward - thinking candidates know that educational and economic justice means expanding school choice to all and not just families that can afford private - school tuition, tutors or suburban homes in the best public school districts,» said NYIA spokesman Robert Bellafiore.

Felder relaunched his campaign to pass bill S6798 — which would station a cop outside every public and private school in the city — just one day after Nikolas Cruz marched into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an assault rifle on Feschool in the city — just one day after Nikolas Cruz marched into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School with an assault rifle on FeSchool with an assault rifle on Feb. 14.

Just last month, the Council, with an overwhelming majority and in partnership with the Mayor, passed a controversial bill that would use public funds to pay for security guards at private and religious schools.

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

NY TIMES - Feb 25 - Date My School, a site which just received $ 500K from private investors, went live for Columbia last November and New York University in December, restricting membership to those with.

Or so it seems, until the process of navigating New York City's hyper - competitive private school system opens up a parental quagmire: could Jake's gender nonconformity be just the thing that gives their child an edge in the admissions game?

You see, on top of all that, his kids just lost their spot in private school because his dad, Gabe (who has been footing the hefty school bills), has cancer again and needs the money for an experimental treatment.

Of course, Mary's teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate, Obvious Child) immediately realizes Mary is special, and just like that, the wheels of the educational system are in motion to explain to Frank why they know what's best for Mary... a high - fallutin private school where she can be all she can be.

Just look at first - rate private schools: in New York City parents spend between $ 20,000 and $ 40,000 per child, and they do so for a reason.

When I was a kid I had been lucky enough to get a scholarship to an all - boys private high school just outside of the city, and that happened right when things were getting really difficult for me in the public school I attended.

And by the end of the legislative session, he got just about everything he wanted in a school reform plan: expansion of charter schools, private school vouchers, and college scholarships for students who graduate high school early.

It could be that competition would drive higher levels of performance and benefit students in ways that are not evident when you just study what happens immediately when students move from a public to an existing private school.

After trying various special education programs in the public schools in their towns, the three families had all landed at the same private elementary school just outside Boston that specialized in small classes and social - emotional learning.

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

Now, as he assumes the role of chief academic officer of the nation's largest school system, Polakow - Suransky, who very few people, including educators, have heard of, will have to get used to being on a brightly - lit stage in the klieg - light capital of the world; just as private industry CEO Cathie Black travels from the well - insulated corporate board room to the decidedly raucous arena of a sprawling public school system.

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This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

The only private, nonparochial school I was aware of when I was growing up in Syracuse, N.Y., was this place that seemed to be just for rich problem kids.

After just three years of attending a private school in Indianapolis, the 7th grader can carry on a conversation without a trace of her parents» thick British accents.

Charneice M. Broughton picked up her ringing telephone on the last Thursday in June to hear news that made her burst into tears of joy: The highest court in the land had just given its blessing to the voucher program that enables her to send her 8 - year - old daughter to a private school.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

For example, in 2016 the AFC issued its first - ever «report card» ranking states by the quality of their private - school choice programs, and its scorecard values academic, administrative, and financial accountability, not just access.

In such cases, private school teachers earn even less, just 80 percent of what their public school counterparts earn.

In April 2007, a study by the Piton Foundation and the Rocky Mountain News revealed just how many students were leaving Denver for private schools and other districts.

Bad private schools will get lots of media attention, which will drive down public support for school choice and strengthen the hands of those who opposed such programs in the first place and are just waiting to eradicate them.»

What makes Louisiana different from other cities is not just that they are regulating more heavily, but that voucher recipients take the state test, not some off - the - shelf norm - referenced test that is more in line with the ones that private schools normally use.

Take this striking finding: 43 % of private school teachers say that most students in their high school graduate having learned «to be tolerant of people and groups who are different from themselves» compared with just 19 % of their public school counterparts.

When students finally reach high school, especially if they live in poor neighborhoods, they may find just a smattering of honors or AP classes, nothing like the ample course offerings of well - resourced suburban districts and elite private schools.

49 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools picked a private school, 44 percent a public school in their district, 4 percent a public school outside of the district, and just 2 percent a charter school.

I'm not just talking about the unions, but there is a tremendous and deep resistance — here we are in the center of capitalism, right — there is a very deep resistance to the private sector that's embedded in the culture of public schools.»

This sounds plausible, since just 23 percent of those enrolled in the state's private schools are minority students.

Right now there are 186 private schools in Nevada serving just over 29,000 students in a state with more than 450,000 students in public schools.

Private schools can pick and choose their clients and not just in terms of academic promise, also behaviour.

I think in the US, in the east coast we're really just sort of starting — Marymount was the first private school to start a FabLab in America, and that was only five years ago.

Overall, 43 percent of the uninformed American public support «a [universal voucher] proposal that would give families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition,» while just 37 percent oppose the idea, with the remainder taking no position on the issue.

If the answer to those questions is yes, a serious conversation about strategy will cover not just how to create incentives for elite schools to access public funding but also how to assist private schools of all types in building the academic capacity to serve students of all backgrounds.

On average in top performing private school parents paid over $ 25, 000 per student (Geelong Grammar with an ICSEA of 1149 ranked 124 in Victoria out of 455 schools and was the most expensive school in Victoria charging $ 36000 in 2017 just for school fees for year 12 (non-boarding) while parents in high performing public schools paid less than $ 1300.

Voucher programs offer public funds to private schools, which differ in the messages they seek to convey through their curricula, just as UVA offered funds to various student organizations.

This contradicts the Indiana Department of Education's assertion that voucher students would have enrolled in private schools regardless of the program — the implication being vouchers are just helping would - be private schoolers subsidize private tuition.