Sentences with phrase «kids go to a private school»

I do not know who I would vote for, now John has stepped down, Abbott carries a lot of baggage with her, telling Blair about his kids going to private school while hers did as well, on the whole I suspect I would vote Abbott, sadly it makes little difference, it does look as if David Miliband will win this one, he is new labour, the new Mp's are mainly new labour, it does look like the days of the working class are over, perhaps one day we will get a party I some how doubt, it, so where does labour stand, we have the Conservative party big business, we have liberals not to sure, we have New labour big business Tory Tory and Liberals.

Are most white kids going to private schools?

In the 1950s, 13 % of kids went to private school, largely parochial schools.

My kids go to a private school that's attached to a religious congregation.

I laughed at my mother's group who talked of which school incessantly, I dismissed my neighbours as stuck up when they chatted about it like every kid goes to private school and almost fell over when friends started going to church every Sunday although confirmed atheists just get into Catholic school.

Not exact matches

That's enough to rent a nice apartment (or pay the mortgage on, say, a + / - $ 1m house), take a nice vacation each year, and probably pay private school tuition for one or two kids... but you're certainly not going to be flying your own Gulfstream with only $ 5 million.

Yet most families I knew had little to no money saved for their kids to go to college / would never consider private school.

Really, who is getting this funding are kids who are already going to private schools, or some of the most well - funded schools in our state.

In September, he gave his first six checks to fund two scholarships at St. Anne's - Belfield, the private high school he went to in Charlottesville (even though he and Megan had quietly funded two already, and those kids are about to head off to college).

My belief is that it is because most (three - quarters) of private schools are church - affiliated, and if you or your kid is talking about a coach, it's going to circulate through the church pretty fast, and you probably won't be viewed in a positive light and may be labeled as a troublemaker.

Both of my kids attended UC's but all of their friends went to Ivy League schools or private schools in California or Oregon.

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.

«Bill Perkins is a guy who went to elite private schools and he represents a districts where most people can't afford elite private schools and charter schools are their opportunity to get their kids a great education,» Bloomberg told WOR's John Gambling.

Klein said Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders are working on «a hybrid of what the governor wants and an expansion of [Tuition Assistance Program] help for kids who want to go to private schools.»

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

A Cuomo official at the time said the married father with two school - aged kids went to the private sector to make more money.

That number did not even include the local kids who were too young for school, who went to private school, or who lived just over the town line.

He's one of those kids that goes to a private school because his mom works here ass off so that he can get into a good school.

Meanwhile, the family has issues of their own come to a head, as wife Sarah (Hudson, Clear History) is being sexually harassed at work, while the kids, Tucker (Gagnon, Rio 2) and Grace, are not able to go to private school any longer, so Aidan is seeking to home school them.

Lots of ed reformers, especially those on the political left, still oppose publicly funded voucher programs that would enable disadvantaged kids to go to private schools.

For it is clear that parents who currently go private are doing so because they want to — but it is not clear that parents who currently send their kids to public school are doing what they want.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

Smart kids shouldn't have to go to private schools or get turned away from Bronx Science or Thomas Jefferson simply because there's no room for them.

But as Andy Rotherham points out, forcing people to «go private» in order to get a customized education for their kids is not a great political strategy for building broad support for the public schools.

«My general view,» says the Post's Mathews, «is that the voucher path is a dead end because we are never going to have nearly enough spaces in private schools for the kids who need it.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

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.

For his part, Pocan pointed out that the last expansion of the choice program resulted in three - fourths of the public money going to parents whose kids were already enrolled in the private schools they were getting vouchers for, and two - thirds went to families making over $ 100,000 a year.

«If we're going to give kids a voucher to an unregulated private school, then how do we know they're getting a good education?»

Ultimately, kids who are getting vouchers and going to private schools are doing the same at kids in MPS.

«It seems, again, irrational to me to say, public schools, you're going to have to make do but let's expand the voucher program over here where history has shown us that 70 to 80 percent of those kids are already in private schools,» Evers said.

We have a lot of choice in public schools, in fact in Lubbock, Texas we have almost 29,000 kids and almost 14,000 go to a school of choice, whether it's within our district, or district to district, or private school, or charter school, or homeschool.»

Our public schools should be more like Lakeside, the private school in Seattle where Bill's kids go and have small class sizes and academic freedom to explore their potential — not like the KIPP schools Bill wants to subject our children to.

«The public - school students get a more integrated environment in their public schools, and the private - school kids get to go to a school of choice.»

For decades, the life cycle of the young, middle - class D.C. resident has gone something like this: Move to the District, get a good job, meet a nice boy or girl, get married, have a kid and — faced with mediocre public schools or the prospect of tens of thousands of dollars in yearly private school tuition — move to the suburbs.

«I have two kids who go to private school, who hopefully someday will go to college.»

«I often had kids who would say to me, «my friend who goes to public school has a higher average than I do and I work so much harder»,» McCauley recalls from her years as a private school guidance counselor.

If you send your kids to a private religious school, you can still claim the credit as long as you can separate out the amount of tuition that went towards the teaching of religious topics vs. general education.

Kids» school tuition went from $ 1k to $ 1.4 k a month, but my older son is starting public school, so I'll only have to pay for my daughter's private school - should be half.

My older kid is gonna go to public school, so the private school tuition will go down to $ 500 from $ 1000.

«Child protection work is very different from domestic family law and, if you think about private family law matters, you're really, in the context of children, trying to sort through how parents are going to move forward and care for their kids,» says Shelley Kierstead, an assistant professor at York University's Osgoode Hall law school in Toronto.

«Every practising lawyer knows dozens of guys who are the senior lawyer with kids in private schools, they have paid for university educations for their kids and take nice trips and really can't afford to retire because they've consumed all their capital as they've gone along and have not properly planned.»

There's a specific law that outlines what Jia can and can not do, and for a guy with a penchant for high - class living, it's surely going to present an issue: he can't travel first - class, stay at expensive hotels, buy or build luxurious houses, purchase unnecessary cars, travel for leisure, or pay for his kids to study at a private school.

Wants to sign a four year lease because he is in the process of divorce and his kids go to a private elementary school two blocks away.

Our kids do go to a private school — a small low - fee (haha) Anglican one in the country and on a bursary (fee reduction).

I know they breed better accents — Husband and I are quite facinated by the posh lilt to private school kids» conversation — but going by the wild gatherings of private school boys at my not - so - neighbourly neighbours house, pouring fruity lexia down their throats from the cask, it doesn't actually breed better taste or judgement.