Sentences with phrase «parochial high»

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): psychometric properties in an African — American parochial high school sample

One hundred two adolescents between the ages of 14 and 19 were recruited from four parochial high schools in a large Midwestern city.

Sex education being impossible for the adolescent boys of Chicago's Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, we had parochial high school girls brought in by bus.

After Ron Jr. came Eddie, now 25 and a former Yankee farmhand, then Brian, 20, a student at New York University, and Charlie, 18, a pitcher for St. John's, a parochial high school in nearby Shrewsbury.

We need a loud and disruptive RAC to pull an upset against NJ's largest parochial high school.

Masquerading as anything but the largest parochial high school in NJ.

Not exact matches

Past achievements range from the parochial (a City of Alexandria Beautification Award) to the high profile (an American Association of Nurserymen Award, hosted by the White House).

Given the high risk for non-compliance, the Bar Council's parochial ban on virtual office is excessive.

When we played private parochial Christian high - schools or colleges, they «all» prayed, before during and after, and anywhere in between, with a lot of me «hearing praise god and jesus.»

but still Faith based Parochial school students often test higher in math and science than those in public schools.

I was raised Catholic, went to parochial school for elementary school and high school, but lost that devotion as I grew older and busier in my daily life.

In the United States Roman Catholics, at no small sacrifice, were constructing a network of parochial and higher schools for the education of their children under Christian auspices.

Generally speaking, new college graduates will make substantially higher salaries in industry than in K - 12 education, be it public, private, or parochial.

Catholic higher education will cease to be genuinely higher studies if it does not engage the challenges; it would become merely an extension of a parochial enterprise, confirming what some catechists have long sought and what many suspicious secularists have long believed.

Originally, Quest concentrated its efforts on serving high - end parochial schools in the Chicago area, but in time the company discovered that there was need for its services in the public school sector.

Waldorf School of Princeton alumni attend a wide variety of independent, parochial, and public high schools of their choice.

In a Sunday Times article, Mr Phillips referred to a High Court case being taken by the National Secular Society and an atheist former councillor challenging the holding of prayers in local council meetings as «nonsense on stilts», and said human rights legislation was undermined by using it to settle «parochial disputes».

Statewide, more than 75 parochial schools have closed in just the last five years, and average tuition can reach as high as $ 8,500 per student annually.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

Maine has a 130 - year - old voucher law that once allowed children living in towns without high schools to attend private or parochial schools with state support.

In their eyes, the high performance of parochial schools relative to the public schools was damning, at least from a constitutional perspective.

Traditional public schools, charter public schools, independent private schools, parochial schools, homeschools — even a high school at a zoo!

The 71 % of Americans who rate private school education positively is only a bit higher than the 63 % positive rating for parochial schools but far outpaces the percentages for charter schools (55 %), home schooling (46 %) and public schools (44 %).

With a personal passion for serving children and helping them achieve higher levels of success, Mr. Davis founded the JANDT Foundation to aid minority children in attending private and parochial schools in the Washington, DC area.

Researchers interviewed 2,023 students in grade 7 and higher in public, private, and parochial schools nationwide.

We support options for learning, including home - schooling, career and technical education, private or parochial schools, magnet schools, charter schools, online learning, and early - college high schools.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

«Quality high school» is defined as competitive and specialized high schools, including local educational option schools and private schools, as well as independent schools (both commuter and residential) and parochial schools.

NOTE: This figure includes enrollment in traditional public, public charter, parochial, and other private schools, including nursery schools, kindergartens, elementary schools, and high schools.

The West Virginia Supreme Court required a public school board to reimburse parents who complied with West Virginia's mandatory education statute by sending their children to a private, parochial school because no public high school existed in their district.

High stakes testing can pressure schools to push out low - scoring students or transfer them to vocational school, or pressure low - scoring students to leave school or parents to remove vulnerable students from the testing pool and «protect» them in private, parochial, or home school.

When a student doesn't earn a composite score high enough for admission to Baltimore's top high schools, many families turn to parochial schools or the suburbs.

The positive findings in the Education Department's recent evaluation of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship program provide more evidence that high - quality private and parochial schools can have invaluable benefits for low - income, minority students.

«We support options for learning, including home - schooling, career and technical education, private or parochial schools, magnet schools, charter schools, online learning, and early - college high schools,» the platform said.

Thanks to the state's archaic and religiously - bigoted Blaine Amendment, families would not be able to use school funding to put their children to high - quality private and parochial schools; although disappointing, it is understandable that Snyder won't go further given the opposition to the plan that is already emerging from affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers, and traditional districts.

The Republican National Committee platform details its support for school choice including home - schooling, career and technical education, private or parochial schools, magnet schools, charter schools, online learning, and early - college high schools.

«Join one of the highest performing parochial schools in NYC as we ready our students for 21st century learning.»

«For the first time, every child in New York City has access to free, full - day, high quality pre-K programs across district, charter, parochial and early education centers,» Devora Kaye, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, said in a statement on Wednesday.

44 percent give an A or B to their local public schools; 58 percent give an A or B to local private / parochial schools; and 36 percent give those high grades to public charter schools.

«As schools use the high quality of their education product to recruit choosy students, the competition will raise the quality of that product provided by all schools, whether private, public, charter, parochial, home, or experimental,» Dick added.

While that program has not yet graduated its first cohort, its record through the early years of high school is impressive: Not a single student has dropped out, and the promotion rate in school is 98 % (the only exceptions are a student who transferred to a parochial school where he was asked to repeat a grade, and a boy who lost a month of schooling because of family turmoil).

Take a moment to think of every high school in your area, every so - called rich school, every so - called poor school, every public school, parochial school, private school and every other charter school.

In some neighborhoods, families have a choice of sending their children to high - performing district schools or affording a private or parochial education; meanwhile, many families in low - performing districts who can not afford to pay tuition have no high - quality choices — or can't gain access to the handful that do exist.

Megan was a high - performing student at an academically challenging parochial school — and she was frustrated.

Private religious schools do not receive funding from a religious institution, and instead rely on tuition dollars and fundraising to operate, as such, these schools often carry higher tuition rates than their parochial counterparts.

The 80 schools — as we noted on Friday, all parochial — that have been approved for the program as of last Friday show a higher average than public schools.

Center City PCS transformed seven inner city parochial schools into public charter schools, and thus extended access to high quality programs in some of the most disadvantaged neighborhoods in the city.

Although some will argue that it will lead some private schools to not participate in the programs, it will also mean that those schools that do will meet high standards for educating the kids in their care; such tightening could even expand the number of private and parochial school chains — including Catholic diocesan schools — serving children by forcing them to build up capacity.

Even as vouchers have shored up many parochial schools, public schools have been squeezed: State education spending has not kept up with inflation, and still is not as high, in real dollars, as it was in 2011, according to Lawrence DeBoer, an economist at Purdue University.

She went to Mother Cabrini High School in Washington Heights, an all - girls parochial school, graduating in 1982.