Sentences with phrase «private school tradition»

However, built on an innovation out of the private school tradition, a lot of high growth will come, he says.

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The Baptists were going to have to do the same (private schools) if they wanted to teach / raise their children with Baptist's traditions.

While the school is a Catholic school, it is separate from the Archdiocese and is governed like any other independent private school so our kids will make their sacraments at Sacred Heart but have many classmates from outside their own religious tradition (around 30 percent of the student body is not Catholic).

It should be emphasized that religious based institutions, including their private schools and hospitals, have a long, rich tradition of being anti-union.

I found this especially discouraging because the principles statement broke with choice tradition by explicitly embracing greater accountability for participating private schools.

David Campbell's research piece finds reason to praise the nation's largest private system of schools, the Catholic schools, for their ability to graduate students with a healthy regard for our political traditions and a commitment to social action, but he also finds signs that private schools with other religious affiliations may not have such excellent records.

In part because of its dismal public school system and in part because of a strong religious, especially Catholic, tradition, New Orleans had a robust private school network before Katrina: some 25,000 students, more than a third of the number in the public schools, attended 92 different schools.

Policymakers, though, also hoped that the new academies would follow in the tradition of elite private schools in building self - esteem in girls and providing role models for boys.

Private schools now attract only two kinds of families: 1) the well - to - do, who are willing to pay the high cost of private schooling; and 2) those seeking to preserve their religious tradPrivate schools now attract only two kinds of families: 1) the well - to - do, who are willing to pay the high cost of private schooling; and 2) those seeking to preserve their religious tradprivate schooling; and 2) those seeking to preserve their religious traditions.

Those who have said they'd like to apply include a couple who run a Montessori preschool in Enumclaw and want to expand to grades K - 3; another couple who operate a home - school support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sschool support program in Mount Vernon and wish to offer a tradition - based schoolhouse education to K - 12 students; a parents» group in Lewis County that hoped to keep Packwood Elementary School open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sSchool open despite school board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sschool board plans to close it; and the principal of a private K - 8 school in Seattle seeking to add a charter high sschool in Seattle seeking to add a charter high schoolschool.

When asked about charter schools, Vermont's Deputy Secretary of Education said she did not support charter schools saying «No I don't think we need them... The state's longtime tradition of allowing public funding to flow to private, non-religious schools when a community does not have a public school... provides enough flexibility.»

Scottsdale Preparatory Academy is a state - chartered public school providing an honors level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools.

Lincoln Preparatory Academy is a state - chartered public school providing an honors level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools.

Cicero Preparatory Academy is a state - chartered public school providing an honors level liberal arts curriculum in the tradition of the finest independent private schools.

Almost half of all kindergarteners through high school seniors in America are now nonwhite, the U.S. Department of Education says, and a quarter are Hispanic, without a private or Catholic school - going tradition.

In the private school world, you may see schools listed as nonsectarian or non-denominational, which essentially means that the institution does not adhere to a particular religious belief or tradition.

Case studies have a long tradition of partnership between elite independent schools and selective private institutions of higher education.

In 2005, to foster harmonious relations among students of different backgrounds and to introduce them to religious practices and traditions from around the world as well as from Quebec, the provincial government gradually imposed a controversial new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the private ones.