Sentences with phrase «millions of children enroll»

Council for a Strong America garnered critical support for early education, which helped millions of children enroll.

Across the country, millions of children enroll in schools whose primary mission is to sustain a flow of dollars, not provide an excellent education.

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When center - left officials and institutions (such as the NAACP) support arbitrary caps, they are dismissing the voices of three million current charter school students and their parents, and the one million more who want to enroll their child in a charter school, but due to high demand, were only able to get on a waiting list (this includes: 8,640 parents in Washington, D.C., 44,000 in New York, 34,000 in Massachusetts, and a whopping 158,000 in California).

More than 11 million school - age children speak a language other than English at home, and Texas enrolls the second largest population of K - 12 English language learners.

This year's focus on public schools, which includes $ 649 million in new per - pupil funding, comes after three budgets that cut or froze public school spending, and expanded the number of families who could enroll children in private schools through taxpayer - funded vouchers.

Using test score information required by the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act, the study analyzes the effects of segregation in more than 22,000 schools across the country that enroll more than 18 million students.