Sentences with phrase «opted out of public»

In some instances, where highly educated parents with children have chosen to live in the city, parents have opted out of the public school system.

Parents of these students have been empowered to vote with their educational dollars from the state and have opted out of public schools.

In 2000, George W. Bush opted out of public financing in his nomination campaign because money was flowing so freely into his campaign war chest and he was worried about rival Steve Forbes's ability to fund his own campaign out of his private fortune.

But in 2008 public financing of the presidential campaign plummeted to $ 139 million, largely because candidate Obama, a prodigious fundraiser, opted out of public financing for the general election.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a billionaire, opted out of the public campaign financing system in his election campaigns, and spent his own money instead.

As for the end result of all of that enthusiasm, we already know the story: online fundraising allowed Barack Obama to opt out of the public campaign financing system and outspend John McCain by hundreds of millions of dollars in the general election.

Instead of social networking, the online technology that's really shaken up 2008 is fundraising: the candidates» ability to raise almost unlimited amounts of money online has been a true game - changer, allowing Barack Obama to opt out of public financing and to begin to build a significant Democratic financial advantage for the first time in political memory.

In other words, Obama's decision to opt out of the public campaign financing system was THE decisive moment of the campaign, and his immense treasury the atomic bomb of this political war.

Obama opted out of taking public funds during the September to November general election period, becoming the first candidate for president to opt out of public financing since the system was created in the 1970s.

A look at the decisions Obama has made since becoming the nominee — opting out of public financing, reversing course on the domestic surveillance bill, etc. — suggests a real strain of pragmatism in his thinking that further bolsters the «steady hand» argument when it comes to his vice presidential selection.

To an outsider, you will find it difficult to understand that sitting next to friends and family will be the righteous persons of civic activism — those that lead, those that volunteer, those that opt out of the public spotlight from any sort of recognition while they do God's work here in Queens.

Candidates who opt out of the public system would still face restrictions on the dollar amount for individual donations that they could accept.

The bill also has a provision allowing states to opt out of the public option.

A third possible direction goes back to diversity and individualism — through privatization, including such mechanisms as tuition tax credits, vouchers (enabling students to opt out of the public school system), and home schooling.

In opting out of public schools, Choice parents are helping to reform a Milwaukee Public School (MPS) system that has resisted or subverted other reform efforts.

These families feel strongly enough about choice that they pay extra to opt out of the public school system.

Arizona's legislature got around the voucher barrier by implementing a program in 20TK that allows eligible families to opt out of public schools and use the money the state would have used to educate them to pay for private school tuition, homeschool curricula, private tutoring, education therapy or other educational expenses.

The Education Law Center argues that it's an important factor because when wealthy families opt out of public education, schools are left with higher concentrations of poor children, and there is less political will to boost funds for public schools.

Although families in the Wilson HS boundary almost exclusively enroll at their in - boundary school if they are choosing public schools, almost half of families living in this area take advantage of private choices and opt out of public schools altogether.

Eighty percent of the 1,741 students in the study's sample are black, and Wolf explained that in many cases, families were opting out of public schools that were overwhelmingly African American to begin with.

It would involve forcibly transferring ownership of all existing private schools to the school district in which they reside, and readjusting local tax schemes to capture the tuition parents currently pay (the nationwide average is $ 8,549 per year, which means a total of $ 47 billion is spent each year on opting out of the public education system).

Starting next year, parents who opt out of public schools can receive between 90 % and 100 % of the statewide average per - pupil allotment ($ 5,100 to $ 5,700) depending on their income.

To be sure, in addition to an increasing number of public school options, many white students and their parents also also opting out of the public school system altogether.

If successful in its current form, it would allow low income families and parents of special needs children to opt out of their public school and claim upward of $ 3,500 in state money for an education savings account to spend on a private education or home schooling.

Not exact matches

Regulated public utilities will not qualify for the immediate depreciation provision, which is optional, and developers can opt out of the 100 % depreciation bonus and write down their assets more slowly, which NRF notes can be important in partnership flip transactions.

Facebook should give users a meaningful ability to opt out of sharing all information, including «public information,» with «apps others use» without disabling apps entirely.

From a recent article in The Bay Citizen I learned that about two dozen small, affluent public schools in the California Bay Area have opted out of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and instead have hired small catering companies (such as... [Continue reading]

When a public school or district decides to opt out of the USDA School Lunch program, they are no longer required to comply with the standards.

Read the piece, and then listen to me on The Morning Current on Minnesota Public Radio talking about the limited usefulness of creating fake trends with the author of the article on the «opt - out generation.»

Although North Carolina law allows local school boards to permit corporal punishment, under legislation passed in 2011, parents have the right to opt out of corporal punishment for their children in public schools.

We hear a lot of stats from the counties about how many licensed gun owners have filed opt - out forms for public disclosure, but absolutely nothing about how many citizens are rushing in to register their «assault weapons.»

We also think that there are serious public health risks to funding schools that opt out of providing vaccinations.

NYC teachers are being warned not to encourage students to opt out of state tests, because that would be a «political act» in which public employees are barred from engaging.

The Empire Center for Public Policy, a pro-free market think tank, estimates unions stand to lose more than $ 110 million — nearly 13 percent of their total collections — as agency fee payers who pay partial dues would be able to fully opt out of making any payments to the unions.

The law, which was hammered out as part of this year's state budget talks, limits the free services that New York's public - sector unions must provide to workers who opt not to join the union.

Large public sector trade unions the GMB and PCS fail to advertise on their membership forms that subscription fees include an optional levy let alone giving them the right to opt - in or opt - out of paying.

BHA Head of Public Affairs Naomi Phillips commented, «The «soft system» of presumed consent which is being proposed in Wales accommodates the wishes of individuals and their family members who do not want to donate organs, while at the same time the opt - out system has the potential to profoundly benefit society as whole if it increases the availability of organs.

But they had their revenge on the governor, undermining the new evaluation system by convincing thousands of parents to have their kids opt out of the tests — and the union's accompanying advertising campaign inflicted real damage on Mr. Cuomo's approval ratings, forcing him to drop some of his harsher rhetoric and tactics on public school teachers.

Opponents, however, warned that continued public ire could result in more than 400,000 students opting out of state tests in English language arts and math in April.

Lisa Rudley, a mother of three school age children and part of the opt out group New York State Allies for Public Education, agrees.

ALBANY — Teachers» unions are leveraging an unprecedented statewide protest of standardized testing in public schools as their latest weapon in a war with Governor Andrew Cuomo over education reform — whether the parent activists who began the so - called «opt out» movement like it or not.

The Department of Education's proposal to amend ESSA would label most Westchester public schools as «in need of improvement» and would cut federal funding for any school where 5 percent of students or more opt out of Common Core testing.

«The mayor is expected to spend $ 80 million of his own money in the race, more than 10 times what candidates who have not opted out of the city's public campaign finance program, as Mr. Bloomberg has, can spend in a primary,» Weiner wrote in The Times piece.

It would also create barriers to leaving a union, by creating limited windows in which public employees can opt out of paying dues.

Chris Cerrone, a Western New York parent and co-founder of New York State Allies for Public Education, an opt - out activist group, offered a different take on why city districts numbers have remained low or, in the case of Buffalo Public Schools, experienced a significant decrease.

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The Network for Public Education, a nonprofit education advocacy group co-founded by historian Diane Ravitch, is calling for a national «opt out» of high - stakes standardized testing.

The Board of Regents is launching an investigation into the validity of a testing system that is linked to teacher evaluations, citing the need to rebuild public trust following yet another opt out wave of state testing in schools.

«The mayor is expected to spend $ 80 million of his own money in the race, more than 10 times what candidates who have not opted out of the city's public campaign finance program, as Mr. Bloomberg has, can spend in a primary,» Weiner wrote last year to explain his decision to drop out.

Gov. Cuomo's offices professes to be «surprised» Comptroller Tom DiNapoli has opted out of his own pet project — public financing of campaigns — on the grounds that the plan...