Sentences with phrase «more access to private schools»

These reforms gave parents, at every income level, more access to private schools.

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SR: Potential nonacademic benefits include expanded access to job networks, more interracial friendships, and enhanced access to educational networks, including private schools and colleges.

Included in the two - year state budget is a provision that more than quadruples the size of the EdChoice Scholarship Program over the next two years, ultimately resulting in up to 60,000 students having access to private school choice by the 2012 - 2013 school year.

A new study from the Urban Institute finds that a Florida program designed to expand access to private schools has helped more low income students enroll in college.

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

When you do the math, students achieve more when they have access to private school choice.

Strategies to be considered include offering loans to help schools improve their infrastructure or worthwhile teacher training, or creating partial vouchers to help even more of the poor gain access to the private schools that are ready to take them on.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

Public school students have more classroom access to the information highway than their private school counterparts, a federal report released last week says.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

Although the promise and potential of parental choice is nowhere more evident than in the realm of technology, the arguments for allowing students ready access to cyberschools extend to interdistrict school choice, charter schools, private schools, and vouchers as well.

Capping tuition may be intended to increase access to more educational options, but the effect is to discourage private schools from expanding or participating at all.

Peter conceived of the program as a philanthropic opportunity — a chance to help many more young people gain access to Catholic and other private schools.

The fact that organizations like Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks volumes.

The week is also designed to empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children and supports a variety of school choice options — from encouraging increased access to great public schools, to public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.

Limiting the access of middle class families to wide - ranging school choices (and even more - expansive Parent Power) just because they have the perceived financial means to buy homes and send kids to private schools is just as intellectually and morally indefensible as limiting the choices of the poor.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

Though our governmental advocacy, product development and partnerships with private finance providers, CCSA and our members will remain focused on this issue to ensure that charter school students receive the same funds as their traditional public school counterparts, and have more alternatives to access working capital when they need it most.

She's taking on that responsibility at a time when education policy is even more intensely politicized than usual, as President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos have sought to promote parents» access to charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to public schools.

More details emerged last week about this support, with the president revealing that private firms will contribute more than $ 750 million to increase high - speed Internet access and technology in schoMore details emerged last week about this support, with the president revealing that private firms will contribute more than $ 750 million to increase high - speed Internet access and technology in schomore than $ 750 million to increase high - speed Internet access and technology in schools.

Trump and his education secretary, Betsy DeVos, have both said they believe public education is failing too many students and that the solution is to make sure students have more access to alternatives, including private schools.

The Children with Disabilities Scholarship Grant, worth up to $ 8,000 annually, helps more than 1,100 special needs students access private school or other education services.

A Republican Assembly leader now plans to add to the state budget bill an expansion of Milwaukee's voucher program to other school districts, potentially giving more families in cities such as Madison access to private and religious schools.

Both state and private sectors involved in the data comparison include special schools, whose students are more likely to require access arrangements.

The Trump administration has floated an offer to allow even more families access to charter schools, among other choices such as private - school vouchers and tax credits.

It's also important to remember that less than 7 % of the differences in student learning are attributable to in - school factors, such as teacher quality — with more than 90 % of the difference being a function of out - of - school factors, like test prep tutors, private music lessons and the resources to purchase instruments, after school sports, and access to travel, concerts, books, and movies.

LGBT students in public schools are more often victims of harassment based on their gender and sexual identities and are also less likely to have access to LGBT resources than their counterparts in private schools (religious or otherwise).