Sentences with phrase «only public school option»

When his father can no longer cover the bill for Aidan's kids» private school education and their only public school option is a school «on its last legs,» Aidan opts to give home - schooling a shot.

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If you have a family situation where both parents work outside of the home public school may be the only option that suits you unless you can afford to choose a private school.

Or maybe they feel like money is too tight and assume that the nearby public school is the only free or affordable option.

There will be numerous people who believe that public schooling is the only option, especially for a child with special needs, and they will tell you that you are doing a disservice to your child.

Ambitious, low - income high - school students would know that if they want to attend college at public expense (probably their only option), they would first need to become «college - ready.»

When the public was asked whether government funding for public schools in their district should increase, decrease, or stay the same, 59 percent selected the first option, only slightly less than the 63 percent that gave that opinion in 2010, and dramatically more than in 2009 (46 percent).

Senator Patty Murray has argued that, for students in rural areas, «their public school is the only real option and claims to the contrary only amount to «false choice.

Before the introduction of school choice policies, private schools were the only option for city residents dissatisfied with their local public schools.

Providing... captive parents with broad school - choice options is the only chance to improve public schools as a whole.

The problem is, if a public school does not provide the educational services guaranteed to a student, parents only have two options: 1.)

The school prides itself on being one of only two public charters statewide that are interdistrict, providing school choice to hundreds of students that wouldn't otherwise have that option.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

Expanding school choice for all families would shift how we presently fund public education from the «taxes - > public schools only» model to a «taxes - > families (in the form of education savings accounts (ESAs) or flexible vouchers)- > one or many educational options» model.

In other words, this strategy of district - wide school improvement will only work if there are better options available for families, either through expansion of pre-existing high - performing public schools, either charter or traditional, or through the establishment of new high - performing schools.

While there's much emphasis on the necessity of school choice («choice can strongly foster diversity and increase the options for students living in areas where the existing schools are weak») there's an oxymoronic antipathy towards public charter schools which, in our most segregated districts, are often the only choices available to families who can't afford private schools or out - of - district tuition.

In - boundary schools are a primary choice for many families throughout D.C., but public school students living in the Wilson HS area are the only ones in the city — aside from students at a couple elementary schools in Capitol Hill and Dupont Circle — who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools over other options in DCPS or public charter schools.

We want to be leaders in transparency and accountability in the state — shining a light on our areas of growth so we can continuously improve and offer South Carolina kids what they deserve — only the most excellent public school choice options.

Families living in this area are the only ones in the city who overwhelmingly attend in - boundary schools, from elementary school through high school, over other options in DCPS or at public charter schools (see Figure 1).

Seems as if these public school teachers might know something that their unions are loath to acknowledge: that many public schools just aren't getting the job done, and that choosing the best education option for their children is not only their right — it's their responsibility.

The Alliance is to be commended for not only providing high quality public school options to thousands of low - income minority students in the Los Angeles community but for also being responsible stewards of public funds.

She not only helped expand school choice options in Richmond, but she helped ensure that all public school students in Richmond would be eligible to receive funds thru the Richmond Promise program.

Since the General Assembly lacks such capacity, and since the program would still be harmful to public schools, the only option is for the General Assembly to repeal the ESA program.

Families frequently take advantage of these options, with only about a quarter of public school students attending their in - boundary schools — District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) that students have a right to attend based on their address — and the rest enrolling in out - of - boundary DCPS schools or public charter scpublic school students attending their in - boundary schools — District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) that students have a right to attend based on their address — and the rest enrolling in out - of - boundary DCPS schools or public charter sschools — District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) that students have a right to attend based on their address — and the rest enrolling in out - of - boundary DCPS schools or public charter scPublic Schools (DCPS) that students have a right to attend based on their address — and the rest enrolling in out - of - boundary DCPS schools or public charter sSchools (DCPS) that students have a right to attend based on their address — and the rest enrolling in out - of - boundary DCPS schools or public charter sschools or public charter scpublic charter schoolsschools.

After thinking traditional public school was the only option, Ava and Jen now know this is the best option for them.

Perhaps because of the lack of adequate public and private school options in their neighborhoods relative to the neighborhoods in which higher - income families live, only 38 percent of lower - income parents would seek information about the convenience of the possible private schools as compared with 57.4 percent of higher - income parents.

Chicago Public Schools is facing tremendous financial challenges, and with a projected $ 1.1 billion budget deficit, its only option is to propose a capital program that offers the minimum to maintain or upgrade our aging sSchools is facing tremendous financial challenges, and with a projected $ 1.1 billion budget deficit, its only option is to propose a capital program that offers the minimum to maintain or upgrade our aging schoolsschools.

While being careful to say that «providing more educational options isn't against public schools,» she repeated hailed alternatives to traditional school systems and bashed people who support them as people who care only about «systems» and not individual students, and are only interested in sustaining the «status quo.»

The new public charter school regulations being discussed in Trenton today will not only expand high quality educational options for our students and families, but will allow public charter schools to continue to innovate and positively transform our education system to the benefit of all students.

In 2015 he wrote, «financially unable to move to a town like Maplewood or attend a private school, getting into a Newark public charter school was the only option to ensure that my kids received the education they deserve.»)

Also, the fact that if you're poor, the ONLY option for free, public schooling is to enroll your child in a system that has been a failure for the majority of it's existence, is not fair.

The most important «partners» of NJCSA are the parents and children who value public school options once available only to those who could afford to pay for the housing that buys a passkey to N.J.'s best schools.

As Matt Yglesias very fairly pointed out, the author, Natalie Hopkinson, failed to cite student achievement data to back her claim that residential segregation and the expansion of the charter school sector have left many DC families with only «mediocre» public school options.

The movie, «Waiting for Superman» details families in need of better education options for their children and shows them waiting to get into the only free school option available other than traditional public schools: charter schools.

The Buffalo and Rochester school districts are chronically struggling, and that charter schools provide the only real option for students to receive a decent public education.

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Many voiced suspicion and dismay that their city faces a future with more charters than public schools, leaving only those with the greatest needs or fewest options in neighborhood schools.

Our students deserve the same opportunities that students in suburban schools enjoy instead of only being given options that privatize the public schools.

Sometimes referred to as a tax - sheltered annuity plan or TSA, a 403 (b) is a retirement - savings option that's generally offered only to employees of colleges and universities, public schools, certain nonprofit organizations, and churches.