Sentences with phrase «private school alternatives»

These private school alternatives and adjustable learning options give these children stability in their education while their family status may be in flux.

The Handbook of Alternative Education lists more than 7,000 public and private school alternatives for preschoolers through college students.

The court claimed that other Florida programs that permit such spending «are structurally different from the OSP, which provides a systematic private school alternative to the public school system.

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Fusion Academy & Learning Center www.FusionAcademy.com Fusion Academy & Learning Center is an alternative, college - prep private school for grades 6 - 12 that offers class sizes as small as they come: one student, one teacher.

New York State taxpayers should not be subsidizing private school transportation that is excessive and that financially benefits the private school investors, trustees, and parents who have chosen these as alternative to their local public school.

The not - for - profit free schools, usually offering alternative curricula or religious education, occupy a niche within the private school sector and are extremely slow growing.

The city must now accommodate the alternative schools in city buildings or help them find space in private facilities and pay their rent.

New Jersey's alternative - certification plan, which allows prospective teachers to bypass traditional teacher - training programs, has attracted nearly 1,000 candidates, one fouth of whom are from the state's parochial and private schools, a state education official reported last week.

The six sites include a suburban public school district and a small - town elementary school, a private religious school and a private secular school, an alternative public high school and a charter school.

Looney started reaching out to private high schools and colleges looking for alternatives.

In other words, the public school alternatives are not so great and the performance of the participating private schools is considerably worse.

Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

April 25, 2016 — Education savings account (ESAs) provide parents with most or all of funds the state would have spent on a child's education, allowing parents to pay for public school alternatives, such as tutoring, online courses, private school tuition, or a combination of other educational services.

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

I did not know then that «private school» could mean 15 different categories of schools — parochial, independent, military, alternative, and so on — which make up 24 percent of all the schools in the United States.

The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

Many argue that the resistance from local public school bureaucracies shows that the only way to create genuine alternatives for children in weak schools is to provide them with private school vouchers.

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Many private school voucher programs are also heavily regulated, rendering private schools cramped alternatives, at best.

Put differently, even if the quality of voucher - participating private schools was identical in every city, they would all show different effects depending on the academic effectiveness of the publicly funded alternatives.

These are great schools accessible to families who can't afford private alternatives or pricey suburbs.

If private schools are reluctant to go along with this high - regulation approach, maybe it is best just to concentrate on charter schools which have no alternative but to accept whatever regulations come with state funding.

But in the case of private - school accountability, it doesn't have to be the Common Core — aligned tests that states will be using for their district and charter schools (some of which also need «alternative» accountability arrangements).

In America's inner cities, private schools offer the only immediately available alternative to district schools.

The anti-choice plaintiffs alleged that the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» means that the state may only fund that system, and not an «alternative» system that includes «non-common, non-uniform private schools and home - based schooling.»

A possible alternative explanation focuses on motivations for moving from public to private school.

The extent of private schooling stems in large part from the Catholic Church's decision in the 19th century to build an alternative system of education wherever they were unable to control the state - run system.

The bad schools tended to be in poor areas because the poor lack political clout and possess fewer alternatives, such as sending their children to private schools, than the privileged.

The most heavily used alternative for teachers is private school (19 %), but 8 % and 7 % use charter schools and home schooling, respectively.

Students can investigate possible internships in diverse educational contexts (e.g., in schools and alternative educational settings, higher education, NGOs, research organizations and labs, public agencies and non-profits, museums, private corporations, technology, as well as other professional settings related to their academic studies.

The researchers» approach to measuring the causal effect of competition between private and state schools uses the fact that the amount of competition in education today has in large part been influenced by the Catholic church's efforts in the nineteenth century to construct an alternative school system wherever the state religion was not Catholic.

While earning her bachelor's degree, she worked at the Antioch School, a century - old private alternative school where students help design the rules and curriSchool, a century - old private alternative school where students help design the rules and currischool where students help design the rules and curriculum.

Since all three choice sectors — private, charter, and district schools of choice — are offering parents educational options that are considerably more satisfying, one must expect the market demand for educational alternatives to increase.

Personally, we have educated our four children (oldest is now 22) by using alternative educational options, including virtual public and virtual private schooling.

In a practical sense, families who lack personal transportation or live far away from private schools do not have access to alternatives.

However, using alternative assessments makes it difficult to compare the performance of ESA students to students in other schools, both public and private.

† Might include religious and other private schools, but does not include private alternative, special education, or vocational schools.

LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income families is the same as that for public school students who reside in the same geographic area.

Five years ago, Indiana launched a private school voucher program that aimed to provide an alternative to faltering public schools while saving the state money by essentially outsourcing the education of some students.

They argued that the state was undermining the constitutionally required objective of desegregating public schools by supplying textbooks to private schools that served as a segregated alternative to public schools.

Set up as alternatives to traditional public schools, charter schools typically operate under private management and often boast small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.

Michael Goran, director of California - based private education consulting firm IvySelect, said he thought a decreased emphasis on AP courses would benefit students at schools with more resources, as those schools would have more rigorous alternatives.

Pelican State lawmakers should study the impact of the excessive regulations and consider modifying the law to allow private schools to administer one of the many nationally norm - referenced tests as an alternative to the state exam.

Even though 87 % of parents with school - age children have sent a child to a public school, more than a quarter have made use of an alternative type of school: 14 % have had a child in a private school, 9 % a charter school and 8 % have homeschooled their children.

According to the alternative models, in 8th - grade math, the private school advantage varies between 3 and 6.5 test points; in reading, it varies between 9 and 12.5 points.

Figure 1 reports the original NCES results for public and private schools (both sectors taken as a whole), and then those from the three alternative models.

The lack of a statistically significant association between racial imbalance scores for any group and the availability of alternatives to traditional public schools is consistent with the hypothesis that charter schools and affordable private schools are not a necessary component of choice - based racial imbalance in public schools.

The results from our alternative models should not be understood as evidence that private schools outperform public schools.

Though his own family has had the benefit of private schools, Gates said KIPP charter schools and other alternatives depicted in «Waiting for «Superman»» offer as good an education as he had growing up.