Sentences with phrase «parents send their children to private schools»

In 2010 and 2011, we asked instead about «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help parents send their children to private schools,» language that implies the scholarships could be used by any family, regardless of income.

Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

• 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.

• 57 % 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 16 % opposed.

About half of these parents send their children to private schools.

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

When asked whether they favored or opposed a proposal to offer a «tax credit for individuals and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools,» 53 percent responded favorably while only 29 percent expressed opposition.

60 percent of Americans and 59 percent of parents «completely» or «somewhat» support «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» (Education Next 2014).

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.

Not exact matches

If the parents decide to send their child to private school, this $ 24,000 annual expense will continue.

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

Indeed, by allowing parents to meet the compulsory school attendance requirement by sending their children to private institutions that espouse the second approach, the State tacitly acknowledges that its «compelling interest» in education is adequately served in such schools.

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).

So by your logic if Honey Boo Boo's mom decides to bring «go - go» juice (red bull mixed with Mountain Dew) and pageant crack (pixie sticks) to class to celebrate and uses her own money, the only thing other parents can do is hope their children are trained like pit bulls to «just say no,» homeschool, or send them to a private school.

Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.

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.

Consider the example of parents deciding to send their children to private school.

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.

A May 2001 MORI survey for the Independent Schools Information Service showed it to be the biggest factor behind parents» decisions to send their children to private sSchools Information Service showed it to be the biggest factor behind parents» decisions to send their children to private schoolsschools.

Very pleased for the sake of diversity that a parent who sends her children to private schools is in the race.

• Everyone should make decisions on their children's education as a parent first and foremost and Mr Clegg has made it clear that his child is more important than any negative political comment he might suffer (I might send my son to private school, 25 January).

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cSchool Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cschool of their choice.

«If you also are outraged by a new chancellor without any experience in public education and who sent her own children to private school, here is an online petition you can sign and forward on,» wrote one parent on an education e-mail list.

Cuomo is reviving a proposal nixed by the Legislature last year - a $ 150 million tax credit for parents who send their children to private schools.

In addition to contacting private companies, parents had also considered giving children at the school large plastic bags to store their coats, backpacks and other belongings, according to a letter sent out to families this week from P.S. 87's parent coordinator.

The other public schools are of such poor quality that any parents who can afford to do so send their children to expensive private schools.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

Survey Question # 8: A proposal has been made that would allow parents to send their school - age children to any public, private, or church - related school they choose.

Now let's consider what would happen if choice were vastly expanded, and parents were allowed — by means of vouchers, say — to send their children to private schools at no cost.

The survey asks public parents the following question: «If you could afford it, would you be interested in sending your children to a private or parochial school?»

Party leaders have failed to respond adequately to the question of why poor minority parents should be required to send their children to failing public schools when luminaries like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Ted Kennedy saw fit to send their own children to private schools.

The voucher program in Cleveland gives parents state aid to send their children to private schools.

Thus, the program does little or nothing for parents who wish to send their child to a private school but are of limited means.

Corbyn says that the price should be paid by parents who send their children to private school - and Labour quotes an estimate from the Fabian Society that VAT on private school fees could raise about # 1.5 billion per year.

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

There is no assurance that these studies have successfully controlled for an intangible factor: the willingness of parents to pay tuition to send their children to private school and all that this implies about the value they place on education.

The existence of more private schools gives parents who want to raise their children's achievement the opportunity to choose whether to send them to a particular private school or to a public school.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Fully 58 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools said that they would rather send their child to a private school than their current public school (see Figure 2), compared with 39 percent of parents with children in schools that made adequate progress.

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.

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a study that seeks to better understand the decision - making processes of parents who send their children to private schools.

For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to a student, so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school, or to a private school, where permitted.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

APPROACH B) We should open more public charter schools and provide more vouchers that allow parents to send their children to private schools at public expense.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.