Sentences with phrase «previously attended public school»

Looking at the graph below, you can see when the voucher program first started, most of the students receiving a scholarship previously attended public school, but nowadays, it's a coin flip.

Whether it's a child who has previously attended public school and wants to return or a child who has always been homeschooled who wants to try traditional school, it can be disheartening to discover that your child isn't on board with homeschooling

HB 1056, allowing district superintendents to waive the requirement for voucher students to have previously attended a public school for a year;

The bill also expands eligibility requirements by allowing students who previously attended public school out of state or were on a voucher program waiting list to participate in future years.

It also expands eligibility requirements by allowing students who previously attended public school out of state or were on a voucher program waiting list to participate in future years.

In the first two years of the program, scholarship organizations were required to award 70 percent of scholarship funds to students who previously attended a public school («switchers») or to switchers who already received a scholarship.

Currently, the law requires students to meet one of seven requirements for eligibility, among which includes having previously attended public school — unless you are entering kindergarten or the first grade.

100 percent of parents whose child previously attended a public school reported they were more satisfied with their current choice of school.

Thus, in its first year, 90 percent of Indiana Scholarship students had previously attended a public school, but by 2016 — 17, over half — 55 percent — had never attended one.

In April 1998, the WSF awarded more than 1,000 scholarships by lottery, with the majority going to students previously attending a public school.

Burke supports keeping the voucher programs in Milwaukee and Racine but has called the statewide program an «entitlement program,» based on the low number of students in it who were not previously attending public schools.

Not exact matches

Davis said her son, who attends Harlem Success Academy, had previously been enrolled at a public school for kindergarten.

As Isabella, an 11 - year - old student who previously attended a nearby public school, said, «Here it's different from my old school because you're doing your own playlist and you have more projects.»

All were privately funded; all were targeted at students from low - income families, most of whom lived in the inner city; all provided only partial vouchers, expecting the families to supplement them; and all of the students in the evaluations previously had been attending public schools.

In lieu of attending the school serving the attendance zone in which the child is temporarily relocated, such child may choose to remain in the public school building he or she previously attended until the end of the school year and for one additional year if that year constitutes the child's terminal year in such building.

Students previously attending non-failing public schools who participated in the voucher program performed worse in both math and reading than students who were not offered a voucher.

Nearly 80 percent of students participating in the statewide expansion of the voucher program were not previously in public schools and nearly 75 percent were already attending a private school.

But Rep. Marcus Brandon (D - Guilford) asserted that the LGBT community is not a protected class in North Carolina, prompting the need for a previously passed amendment to the bill that drew on language from federal law that would have provided the necessary protections for LGBT students attending public charter schools.

Of those, nine have found that school choice moves students into less racially segregated classrooms than the public schools they were previously attending.

Weppner began her career 44 years ago, teaching kindergarten to recent immigrant students, including the children of migrant farm workers, who had previously not been allowed to attend public schools in Texas.

I started my career 44 years ago teaching kindergarten to recent immigrant students, including the children of migrant farm workers, who had previously not been allowed to attend public schools in Texas.

She said she decided to try something new after her son, who previously attended Bates Elementary in the Jackson Public School District, started having behavioral and academic problems.

Previously, public school funding for local school districts was decreased by $ 11 million in the 2014 budget to account for funding the school voucher program, which will provide approximately 2,400 current public school students with $ 4,200 vouchers to attend private schools beginning this fall.

Of students entering the scholarship program from public school for the first time, 70.7 percent previously attended a D or F public school, 92.6 % qualified for federal free and reduced - price lunch, and 5.2 % had an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

Of these latter studies, the benefits of choice were typically concentrated among African American students and students who had previously attended relatively low - performing public schools before they were given a chance to attend schools their parents deemed better.

But five years after the program was established, more than half of the state's voucher recipients have never attended Indiana public schools, meaning that taxpayers are now covering private and religious school tuition for children whose parents had previously footed that bill.

I'd not previously realized this more nasty aspect of the publishers» attack on public libraries, requiring «OverDrive and our library partners to cooperate to honor geographic and territorial rights for digital book lending, as well as to review and audit policies regarding an eBook borrower's relationship to the library (i.e. customer lives, works, attends school in service area, etc.).»