Sentences with phrase «nonsectarian public schools of choice»

While states» policies differ, charter schools are broadly defined as nonsectarian public schools of choice that can operate outside traditional school regulations.

Charter schools are nonsectarian public schools of choice that operate with freedom from many of the regulations that apply to traditional public schools.

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The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

One - hundred - thirty - five private nonsectarian and religious schools and school systems registered with the Department of Public Instruction by the January 10 deadline to accept students for the 2016 - 17 school year through the Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP).

As such, in 1985, with Republicans in control of the legislature, Perpich recommended two school choice proposals: postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO), to allow high school juniors and seniors to attend nonsectarian public and private colleges, and open enrollment, to allow parents to send their children to schools anywhere in the state.