Sentences with phrase «opportunities than private schools»

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Education savings accounts operate like the «partial voucher» that Friedman envisioned more than a decade ago, allowing families to seek out the best educational opportunities for their students — whether those be in a private or parochial school or a mix of non-traditional education options.

Opposition to expanding school choice through a universal voucher initiative that «gives all students an opportunity to go to private schools with government funding» is higher in this year's survey than a year ago.

Yet in all these cuts ~ wealthier students are less likely to be impacted than their lower - income peers ~ in large part because their parents ensure they are exposed to enrichment opportunities either at school (perhaps paid for by fundraising efforts) or in private lessons.

In one of his early writings, excerpted in the following pages, James S. Coleman, the brilliant sociologist who later wrote the famous report on the equality of opportunity for education (the «Coleman Report») and the first study of public and private schools, identified the essential high - school problem: «our adolescents today are cut off, probably more than ever before, from the adult society.»

There are numerous devices that can achieve this goal (tax credits and education savings accounts, for instance), and some offer greater flexibility than others, but through the policy lens, they all accomplish the same thing: giving families and children who would not normally have the chance to choose private school the opportunity to do so.

Ironically, these trends leave brilliant children who live in poverty with even fewer opportunities to develop their talents than they had before; their families can not afford the private schools and summer enrichment programs wealthier children have the option to attend.

Celebrating The Legacy Of Milton Friedman July 29, 2016 by Brett Kittredge More than six decades ago, economist Milton Friedman first proposed the idea of giving parents the opportunity to use the public funds associated with their child's education to pay for private school if they desired.

When lawmakers enacted the Opportunity Scholarships program back in 2013 to allow children from low - income families the chance to use public dollars at private schools, they included accountability provisions in the law that fail to let the public know if these privately - operated schools are better — or worse — options than public schools.

Since 2014, Trinity Christian has received more than $ 1.2 million in taxpayer funds through the Opportunity Scholarships Program, which provides low - income families money to attend private schools.

More than six decades ago, economist Milton Friedman first proposed the idea of giving parents the opportunity to use the public funds associated with their child's education to pay for private school if they desired.

More than 7,200 children currently use Opportunity Scholarships to attend private schools statewide.

This is one situation where private schools can often offer more opportunities for creative endeavors than the local public schools.

But I do think (the voucher program) provides some families with an opportunity for students to find a better home in these private schools than they found in the public schools.

Citizens stuck in blue states like California now have no recourse to escape the failed test prep approach other than to get their children into private schools — and if they lack the resources to pay for tuition a second time (since they still must pay taxes for the second class teaching their local state schools are dispensing), their children will be doomed to fall behind the international competition, since that is a consequence of the second missed opportunity of the past decade, the Common Core standards that doom American children to fall 2 - 3 years behind their peers in Asia and northern Europe by the time they finish high school.

Women are 70 % of law school graduates and constitute more than half the lawyers in private practice, but they are leaving law firms for more conducive work environments and better career opportunities in corporate and government positions.