Sentences with phrase «private school debate»

A panel on the public - private school debate at a 1993 ISNA convention in Kansas City drew hundreds of participants.

Not exact matches

The subject of which has better coaches: private or public school always seems to spark some petty good debate but my experience and insight into the differences between private and public school sports is a subject that I have spent some time studying for the last year, and I have made some really profound discoveries.

The $ 2 million field, which is being funded in part by the private Latin School in exchange for priority use of the property, has become a source of rancorous debate in the North Side neighborhood.

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Members of the public had a right to know a cabinet minister had sent her son to a private school as it raised important points for public debate, the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has ruled.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

«The crisis in Flint brought the true costs of a neglected infrastructure to the nation's attention, but in the finger - pointing there are deeper debates over public and private responsibility and the impact of dysfunctional politics on public health,» said David Rosner, PhD, co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and author of the commentary, «Entry Point: A Lead Poisoning Crisis Enters Its Second Century,» which is available online in the May issue of the journal, Health Affairs.

«There is an ongoing national debate about contraceptive coverage requirements in private health plans in the U.S.,» says lead author Michelle Moniz, M.D., an OB / GYN and researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation clinical scholar.

Jasmina.K: There has been a growing debate about state versus private schooling and particularly about the values that are taught in state schools.

In debating state versus private schooling, there has been criticism of the values that are taught in state schools.

Few topics stir up as much debate in the education sphere as steering public money in the form of vouchers to pay for students to attend private school.

During the extended debates on the public and private schools outcomes, we were often obliged to respond to criticism from other scholars.

Much of the debate about public and private schools suggests two monolithic armies poised to engage in bitter and decisive conflict on the field of battle.

But nationally, it's a question that has ignited vigorous debate among voucher advocates and private school leaders.

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.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

While all three objectives are equally important components of a civic education, it is the third - respect for opinions different from your own, or political tolerance - that may be most relevant to the debate over the civic consequences of attending private schools.

One of them, a sixth - grade English teacher at a private school in North Carolina, found that her students were particularly drawn to the guide's debates, an activity she hadn't tried before in her classroom.

The enactment of voucher programs renewed the debate over the role of private school choice in American education.

It's become a familiar sight for education policy mavens this election season: panel discussions, in Washington and elsewhere, hashing out the presumptive presidential nominees» differences on performance pay for teachers, private school vouchers, and other reliable topics of debate.

In 2006, widespread student protests of inequalities in the education system prompted debate over whether entrepreneurs should be able to own and run private voucher schools for profit.

Because much of the choice debate has focused on the question of whether vouchers for private schools should be allowed at all, less attention has...

Florida's voucher program for students in the lowest - rated public schools is unconstitutional, the state supreme court ruled last week in a 5 - 2 decision that friends and foes of private school choice are scrutinizing for its potential impact on voucher debates nationwide.

The debate over whether public monies should go to private schools has raged for years.

Our new report on a Florida private school choice program complicates this policy debate.

Debates over the relative virtues of public and nonpublic schools often imply that private education in the United States is a homogeneous world.

Even before Coleman embarked on «High School and Beyond,» the role of private schools had become a salient topic in federal policy debates.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

The public continues to oppose allowing parents and students to choose a private school to attend at public expense, but with 50 percent opposed to public funding of private school attendance and 44 percent in favor, it is apparent why this is a hotly debated issue.

In the Senate Education Committee, the debate was limited to amendments dealing with implementation: how long private schools had to operate before participating, what tests students receiving vouchers would have to take, what agency would be responsible for the costs of auditing the program.

They will be successful by altering education policy debates, forging powerful public - private partnerships, and restoring public confidence in our schools.»

A specific debate rages over what forms of government accountability to impose on private schools participating in choice programs, which already are accountable to parents, who can vote for or against them with their feet.

In this new political climate, debates about private - school choice have become less about ideology and more about practical considerations, such as which students will be eligible, which schools will be allowed to participate, and how schools should be held accountable.

The new degree program will be a «catalyst to drive change,» McCartney said, producing a new generation of education leaders who are expected to alter education policy debates, forge powerful public - private partnerships, and restore public confidence in the US school system.

While debating the final version of the legislation on the House floor on Friday, Rep. Tricia Cotham (D - Mecklenberg) called out Mitchell and others like him who could, with this legislation, hire family and friends through a private charter school company and pay them anything they like with public funds.

Lawmakers debated placing sanctions on poorly performing public and private schools that receive taxpayer money, but those measures were not adopted.

One hotly debated policy involves the use of school vouchers — taxpayer - funded payments to families who want their children to attend private schools, mostly schools with religious affiliations.

«The big debate really is whether students who are receiving vouchers who have never attended public schools, whether they would have attended public schools if it weren't for the voucher or if their parents always intended to send them to private schools, figured they'd find a way to pay for it and now here's a voucher so they're doing it,» Hinnefeld says.

Tennesseans are debating the efficacy of a K - 12 school voucher bill that would allow 5,000 children attending failing schools (most of which are located in and around Nashville and Memphis) to choose a private school.

Burningham, of Bountiful, served as head of the state school board for many years, including during the tumultuous statewide debate over private school vouchers.

Political debates around school funding focus on public versus private, which party is the Gonski champion, and who gets the most money.

Nationwide the charter school sector has grown over the past few decades amid a debate about its virtues and drawbacks — and even whether the publicly funded schools are public or private entities.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Everyone is curious about salaries, and in academia, there is an endless debate over who makes more: private school teachers or public school teachers.

Johnson's amendment highlights longstanding and multi-faceted debates among voucher proponents, disability rights advocates and public school advocates over whether private schools that get taxpayer - funded vouchers should be subject to the same rules governing public schools.

It is imperative that we openly debate the merits of having private corporations with unelected school boards control education (and its accompanying public tax dollars).

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

If the grilling DeVos endured in last month's confirmation hearing is any indication, any push from within the Trump administration for greater diversity of elementary and secondary school options will end in an acrimonious public vs. private debate.

But recent events have shown that at least one of those impediments is not only resolvable but entirely of our own creation: the political and ideological debate over whether or not it is «right» for a school district to deploy private - sector education organizations as part of its education improvement strategy.

Public - and private - school representatives have been debating the possibility of introducing an enrollment multiplier since the WIAA first began to discuss admitting the members of the former Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association.