Sentences with phrase «n't send their children to private schools»

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While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

I'm on the verge of sending my child to private schools or homeschooling as I, THE PARENT has the choice in what my child does and does not eat.

Parents need to make conscious decisions about whether or not to buy cars, or send their children to private schools if they also hope to develop their hobbies, he said.

Unless you haven't noticed, parents who choose to send their children to private schools are already paying taxes for state school places for their children, taxes they don't get back for places they don't use.

Dr Swift concluded, by means of example, that reading bedtime stories or going to cricket matches are necessary and permissible, but sending children to private school or bequeathing a house are not necessary and therefore impermissible.

What is even sadder is that those parents often come from families that can't afford to send their children to private and parochial schools to avoid the insanity of this program.

And then there is his substantial baggage: sending children to private schools, his shares (recently relinquished) in a family company that doesn't pay a living wage or recognise trade unions, and previously owning shares in a tax - haven firm.

For example, if a child has a difference in his or her family background which the child is unable to overcome and consequently can't attend a public school, public funds may be used to send the child to a private school.

We also don't know the public - private school break out of the respondents, or how many were sending their children to charter schools.

It is still possible that adults who attended religious schools have more favorable attitudes toward Jews because of unobserved advantages but this seems unlikely given that the generally more advantaged families who send children to non-religious private schools do not appear to yield lower anti-Semitism.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

Nearly half of upper - income parents say they would send their children to public rather than private or parochial schools even if cost were not a factor, a survey finds.

Students must come from low - income families who, except for the Cristo Rey program, would not be able to send their child to an academically superior private school.

• When not given a neutral option, 73 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 27 % opposed.

When parents send their children somewhere other than the local public school, it's not because they believe that the private market is the best way to deliver education or that their child will benefit from a longer bus ride.

Parents who live in Pennsylvania's Southeast Delco district but send their children to private schools or to other districts will not receive the tuition reimbursements they expected.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

The Appellate Division held that a school board can not transport private school students on public buses for field trips without some statutory authority and that while parents have the right to send their children to private or parochial schools, there is no corresponding right to equal state aid once they make that decision.

Furthermore, some parents send their children to private schools that are not even in the same country as the children's place of birth.

As someone who is working all the hours to send my children to private school and making sacrifices such as no holidays, no extras and working extra shifts and being very careful financially as they did not get into the most local «good» state school I would most certainly move my children back into the state system.

and Susan Collins (R - Maine) haven't given up on their bid to save the federally funded voucher program that allows low - income families in the District to send their children to private schools.

A Michigan Court of Appeals held that a statute permitting local school districts to furnish transportation without charge for students of state - approved private schools did not violate Michigan's first Blaine Amendment (Article I, Section 4) because the statute's intended and actual effect was to assist parents in complying with state compulsory education laws while recognizing their right to send their children to religious schools.

We send our son to a local private school and agree with Wednesday's State Journal editorial, «Don't splurge on vouchers,» that people in middle to higher income brackets who send their children to private schools don't need vouchers.

Atkinson was careful to point out that she doesn't have a problem with parents sending their kids to private schools or homeschooling their children.

Critics also conveniently forget about all the money public schools receive for services they do not provide when parents, who pay property taxes for public education, send their children to private schools.

Atkinson made it clear that her frustration is not with the parents who want to send their students to a private school or to homeschool their children, but rather with the lack of transparency and accountability associated with vouchers.

Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public schools to send children to private, often religious, schools that don't have to meet state standards.

Yes, sacrificing the have - nots by taking more educational dollars from already struggling public school Districts and sending them to upper class / upper middle class families who want to send their children to private schools.

As noted, there is no question that parents have the right to send their children to private schools, but we taxpayers don't directly pay the costs associated with parochial and other private schools, and we shouldn't be forced to syphon off scarce taxpayer funds in order to pay for schools like Achievement First, schools that fail to meet the most basic criteria of what makes a public school — public.

Kast says she and her daughter, Jacob's mother, could not afford to send him to a private school established to help children with special needs.

Many don't honor their own principles by sending their children to private schools or living in leafy green suburbs.

Parents waiting for vouchers to send their children to private school may not want to hold their breath.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

In some neighborhoods, families have a choice of sending their children to high - performing district schools or affording a private or parochial education; meanwhile, many families in low - performing districts who can not afford to pay tuition have no high - quality choices — or can't gain access to the handful that do exist.

This bill clearly demonstrates that legislators» «school choice» agenda is about providing subsidies to wealthy families that send their kids to private schools and NOT about ensuring that all students, including poor children, have access to a quality education.

One of the appealing aspects of sending your child to private school is that she can not fall through the cracks.

Some provide scholarship opportunities, but the truth is that most Americans simply can not afford to send their child to a private school.

Even when they do live in urban districts, many of them either use school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements to get first dibs on schools that don't have Black or Latino children in them, or just send their kids to private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves work in.

It's an oft - noted irony of the confrontation in Chicago that Mayor Rahm Emanuel sends his children to the private, $ 20,000 - a-year University of Chicago Lab School, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to rSchool, which means his family doesn't really have much of a personal stake in what happens to the school system he is trying to rschool system he is trying to reform.

Like: If public school isn't good enough for Muldrow's child, why does she think it should be good enough for children whose parents aren't capable of sending them to private schools?

Of course, Luke Bronin isn't alone when it comes to claiming that he is ready to oversee public schools while sending his own child or children to a private school.

DeVos is right: the choice to send your child to a private or charter school instead of your neighborhood public school is as easy as calling a Lyft or an Uber instead of a taxi — and that's not necessarily a good thing...

He said parents sending their children to private school were not the «uber wealthy» and a fifth of these families had incomes less than # 50,000 per year.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary.

We did not have the option of evaluating what teachers actually do, as the geniuses in Albany and DC, many of whom send their children to private schools where this nonsense does not apply, appear to have determined that teachers teach tests rather than students.

If I can't afford to send the child to private school then I would not want my parents to pay that bill for me.

But, he said, there is a risk that policies won't work if they overlook the «agency» of children in the decision and warned that there is no convincing evidence of the benefits of sending them off via scholarships to boarding or private schools.

It is true that more orthodox Jews (by the way, the term «Hasidics» as opposed to «Hasids» or «Hasidim» is borderline derogatory - also, by the way, many of us who live here are not Hassidic even though we are Orthodox and send our children to private schools...) are moving into those areas.

This school is in my district and I must say that if their standardized math and reading scores don't improve then I will be forced to send my children to a private school.

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