Sentences with phrase «kids attend our public schools»

Do you think that only Christian kids attend our public schools?

Disappointed in the school work brought home by her foster kids attending public school, the now Minnesota congresswoman decided to get involved because the school system didn't have an «academic foundation,» according to Bloomberg News.

Ninety percent of America's kids attend public schools, so dwindling science instruction is troubling.

Our state is a leader in funding private school vouchers and charter schools with taxpayer money to the detriment of the more than 90 percent of Hoosier kids attending public schools.»

My kid attends public school, dumbass.

School & recreation: An education in spending Let us just first mention that the StatsCan survey on which this number is based assumes that kids attend public school — not private — although that should be obvious from the total yearly expenses for recreation and school of $ 1,060.

Simply put, private school is probably where your child would get a better education, but just because your kid attends public school doesn't mean you're a bad parent!

Not exact matches

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

He said they were brought here by their parent they did not wrong... those kids should be allowed to attend our public schools... and he was critized by the GOP right wing Christians for that comment... It seems to me there are many that wave the Bible and have no idea what is written in the Bible...

«Whether you attend the concert or bring your family to the full - day Saturday taste, we want everyone to know we do this for the kids - the funds we raise from summer high school classes and public events like TOTV go right back to school sites for visual and performing arts and curriculum support to benefit students,» he added.

As a rule, if you witness a large group of kids playing together you will not be able to pick the homeschooled kids out from the kids who attend public school.

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.

I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a classroom helper and parent at their schools (when in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my kids for child care if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.

«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 Caukids 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 CauKids Safety Caucus.

Our kids attend public and private schools, or are home or unschooled.

By increasing the number of gifted and talented programs in our neighborhoods and increasing the number of public charter school seats to 200,000 citywide, we can give thousands more kids in the Bronx the chance to participate in a program or attend a school that could change their lives.

William is worth just as much as Deputy Mayor Buery's son, and so are all of the kids who are still waiting to attend public charter schools.

Her kids are attending our public schools here, too.

We homeschool our kids, but I attended public and private schools at different times when I was growing up and remember one thing very clearly about school lunches (besides how bad most of them tasted): the rotating lunch schedule.

Aiden's father, Gabe, is Jewish and, although Aiden has rejected faith ever since he was a teen, his children attend a private Jewish school in L.A. as part of a deal Aiden made with his father that keeps the kids out of public school.

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.

Education Next's Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. talk this week about a new Fordham Institute report identifying 2800 public schools that only prosperous kids can attend.

The second report, published by the Brookings Institution, looks at ways of expanding choice and competition, including expanding public school choice to break down residential barriers that keep many poor kids from attending better schools.

The six kids who represented the United States in Hong Kong last month are an interesting bunch: Five of them appear to be Asian - Americans, and four attend selective - admission high schools (three private, one public).

«Within three blocks of my house, kids are attending at least six different public elementary schools,» said Hewson, who found that many parents she knew were opting for schools with stronger performance or special features like dual - language immersion.

(Why can public funds help a poor kid attend Notre Dame University but not Notre Dame High School?)

If the state is successful in its current court appeal and the ESA program moves forward, I would love to see the kind of robust Yelp - like parent evaluations Ladner envisions — so long as they're paired with strong oversight representing the public interest of all the taxpayers whose kids aren't attending ESA - financed schools.

One in four school children in the United States no longer attends his neighborhood school; fully 15 percent of all kids (more than 7 million) now participate in a public alternative school.

We have all endured a million speeches along the lines of «charter schools [or vouchers] are well and good for the kids who attend them but they» re no solution to the problems of public school systems that will forever be attended by the overwhelming majority of kids.»

But the reality that many kids must travel as long as two hours away from home in order to attend school (often on inefficient public transit) has also put a strain on the Crescent City's poorest families, who, like middle - class households, want high - quality schools within their own neighborhoods.

When the focus was on students, all readily agreed that it would be unfair to discriminate against certain kids simply because of the type of public school they attend.

Kids are assigned to have the choice of attending a public school, and researchers test whether that choice leads to better results (not whether the schools they could attend are better than the schools they could leave).

She never attended public school — nor did she send her kids to one.

For kids with disabilities, 16 percent of those attending charter schools were proficient in reading, compared with 10 percent of public - school students.

One family had older children attend district schools years ago and knew what the district could offer — but now that they're sending three younger kids to public school, they chose a different option, and also enrolled their kids at King Center.

I am a parent of three — two kids attend public charter schools, and one attends a traditional public school.

The main issue should not be whether poor inner - city kids should receive public support to attend private schools.

As of now, the majority of NYC kids attend traditional public schools.

For example, I read about a district in San Diego that was losing $ 65.9 M per year to charter schools because the kids are signing up and attending local charter public schools.

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

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.

They never get around to explaining why, in California, 52 percent of students attending charters that serve a majority of high poverty kids are in the top quartile of all public schools statewide as opposed to just 26 percent of similar students attending traditional public schools.

Are there differences between the kids who go to charters, and those who attend public schools in New York?

These subsidies have not only improved education for the students who attend the schools of choice, but study after study has shown that kids who remain in public school also benefit when a voucher system is instituted and schools are forced to compete for students.

If you're interested, my own kids attend a very good public school system in the suburbs.

Under the budget, the school voucher program — public money pays for kids to attend private schools — can be expanded outside of Milwaukee and Racine by 500 students in 2013 - 14 and by 1,000 students in each year thereafter.

I also think in education, that while we divide up into public and independent schools, and organize our schools into districts, when it comes to the kids who attend, they truly all belong to all of us.

The private school spent at the time about 2.5 X more per kid than the public school he attended.

In 2015 he wrote, «financially unable to move to a town like Maplewood or attend a private school, getting into a Newark public charter school was the only option to ensure that my kids received the education they deserve.»)

Really a poll in California of 1,710 adults, not even parents of kids who attend public school.