Sentences with phrase «private schools and school systems»

For that reason, state law dictates vouchers can only be granted to the 25 private schools and school systems that receive the most applications.

Dr. Chubb has served as an adviser to the White House, numerous state governments, and public and private schools and school systems.

Not exact matches

Completely scrap the the funding for private schools, but in the event it's not politically expedient for the government heading into an election, at least consider a reduction in funding levels to financially aid the public system and alleviate some of the pressures they currently are experiencing with class size, lack of teachers and the challenges inherent in providing school lunch programs.

NBK Capital Partners Mezzanine Fund II has already invested in two companies: Qimam El Hayat, a private K - 12 school in Riyadh that provides quality education to over 2,500 students and Perkon, the market leader in the Turkish payment systems / automatic identification and data capture («AIDC») industry.

In fact, our school system, as I already pointed out, rents space to a huge number of very diverse private concerns, including homeowner associations, clubs, and so on.

They are no longer teaching what is real anymore in those cases and turning the school system into a private religious instltution.

The government's method was to offer private schools four options: (1) continued independence with no aid, (2) integration into the public school system, (3) a permanent «contract of partnership» in which the classes under contract would be taught according to public school schedules by teachers under contract to the state, and (4) a «simple contract» of limited duration in which the designated classes would be taught by teachers hired by the school but certified by the state.

What is private and non-divisive in the military becomes public and divisive in the public school system.

Two to 5 day golf school with 1 - to - 1 and 2 - to - 1 student - teacher ratio is available as well as private package lessons that include use of a digital video system.

The 2017 - 18 Education Guide offers 660 education resources in the Triangle, including area preschools, private schools, public school systems, charter schools, boarding schools and academic resources.

Compared to other forms of education and schooling systems, the British private schools in Dubai enjoy a wealth of advantages.

There could be other factors involved as well, such as school - family incompatibility, multiple intelligences (where certain children learn best within environments that aren't offered in either public or private schools), as well as religious convictions and beliefs that aren't welcome in the public school system (creationism, for example).

America was built and prospered on a private school system, directly reflecting individual parental values; modern Americans, indoctrinated by many years in government schools, recoil at such history / ideas... mistakenly seeing it as beyond belief or reason.

Here in New york there are plenty of Celebrities (or wives of) who have their kids in the NY school systems (both public and private).

They've certainly been smart enough to game the system into serious real estate holdings and an expensive private school.

Parents with kids that study in different schools and do extra curricular activities, retired / old people, tourists, businessmen have a lot of valid reasons to still need to use a private or at least massive transportation system, so we can not rely solely on bicycle transportation methods for those, still, we must provide those that can rely on them (young people, average commuters living not that far from the office, teenagers...)

Dr Swift met some serious opposition to his critique of parenting excesses, including a passionate defence of the private school system and fears of totalitarianism should absolute equality of opportunity be enforced.

The new budget doubles the program appropriation to $ 770 million, and expands the funding eligibility list to include facilities owned by school districts, housing authorities, library systems, fire districts and private non-profit colleges and universities.

(2) to supplement and complement the efforts of States, the local school systems and other instrumentalities of the States, the private sector, public and private educational institutions, public and private nonprofit educational research institutions, community - based organizations, parents, and students to im - prove the quality of education;

Before that, she served as the business administrator in the New Lebanon Central School District and worked in SUNY System Administration and the private sector.

«We started to lead the nation last year by implementing a strong, uniform policy across the SUNY system and this new law ensures that every school — public and private — lives up to that standard.

Though he has been light on details, Trump is pushing an agenda that includes more charter schools and a voucher system for students who want to attend private schools.

After achieving the passage of a new evaluation system that will rely on a mix on at least one standardized test and in - classroom observation, the governor is renewing his focus to areas NYSUT has opposed, including a lifting of the cap on charter schools and a $ 150 million education investment tax credit, which is strongly backed by private and parochial schools.

The state significantly expanded its testing and funding for installation of private systems only after students from the Hoosick Falls school district held a press conference to ask Gov. Andrew Cuomo for help.

«Even if government policy included an acceptance of private schooling for those with special needs, the fact that the complainant did not feel that the current state system could meet her child's requirements raised questions about the nature of publicly - funded schooling and its ability to cater for children with special needs (including those whose families would not be able to pay for private schooling).»

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

The billionaire hedge fund managers who give million - dollar donations to elite private schools and privatized charter systems want new taxpayer - funded subsidies for their private donations — tax breaks even bigger than they get now.

White stated that the move was made to address an education system in Ramapo which he says is failing, specifically mentioning a 50 percent graduation rate for Hispanic students and private school placements which the organization stated was discriminatory and illegal.

GOP leaders in the state's upper house introduced another proposal to re-authorize mayoral control of the state's largest school system, offering New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio an additional three years but pairing it with a tax credit for donations to private school scholarships — a known poison pill for Heastie and the Democratic conference he leads.

Mr. Hikind might start by taking an interest in working toward the restoration of the public school system and the lack of adherence to the NYS mandates in teaching subjects such as math and science in many of the private schools in the East Ramapo Central School Disschool system and the lack of adherence to the NYS mandates in teaching subjects such as math and science in many of the private schools in the East Ramapo Central School DisSchool District.

The study included schools from both the state and private systems and comprised a large breadth of social, religious and economic demographics.

The team, which also included David A. Rotholz, Ph.D., of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Anne M. Kinsman, Ph.D., of the Greenville Health System, and Kathi K. Lacy of the South Carolina Department of Disabilities and Special Needs (SC DDSN), as well as other leaders from key public and private stakeholder organizations from across the state, saw a way to remove this barrier.

Rhys developed this system by watching the amazing transformation of thousands of Energy Medicine School students and private coaching clients.

Of course, Mary's teacher Bonnie (Jenny Slate, Obvious Child) immediately realizes Mary is special, and just like that, the wheels of the educational system are in motion to explain to Frank why they know what's best for Mary... a high - fallutin private school where she can be all she can be.

Statistics demonstrate that the system is failing and Guggenheim tries to understand why (and, by extension, why he drives past three public schools to take his son to a private school).

«For flexibility,» Pinkett Smith told an Essence reporter, «so they can stay with us when we travel, and also because the school system in this country — public and private — is designed for the industrial age.

Many public and private schools, like Martin's, are still years away from full implementation, and others are grappling with the nuts and bolts of how to implement dramatically new systems for student learning and assessment.

The sun is shining on public schools throughout the United States thanks to federal, state, and local government funding and incentives and private assistance for installing solar - power systems.

PASA has taken on this role, acting as the liaison between the public and private sectors (for example, between the school system, the parks, and local business providers).

This program may yet lift the performance of our pupils as they go through the school system, although problems remain: out of Australia's total expenditure on early childhood education in 2010, parents contributed almost half the cost and only 56 per cent was met from the public purse — compared with an OECD average of 82 per cent public funding — and the rest was from private sources, probably parental pockets.

That's because this public high school, which opened in September, is the product of an unusual collaboration between the city's school system and its premier private university.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

But I'm convinced that, at this point in time, the way to create lots more «high - quality seats» for lots more kids is to make sure that charter schools and private school scholarships receive funding parity with «the system.»

Faced with intense and widespread opposition, Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker last week withdrew his plan to place the Philadelphia school system under private management, canceling what would have been the largest such privatization experiment in the country.

Pennsylvania's system for subsidizing private schools that are eligible to receive public money for serving children with severe disabilities has broken down — and state leaders are struggling to come up with solutions to fix it.

• Leverage federal, state, and private dollars into systems to equalize funding, pay for school start - ups and human capital training, and develop new information and enrollment systems to help families navigate their choices and become savvy school choice consumers.

Other people have avested interest in the public school system and resist the competition for students and funds that comes with private school choice.

But observers in St. Paul believe two recent developments may create a favorable climate for the concept: the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the state's 25 - year - old system of income - tax deductions for expenses incurred by families with children in private and public schools, and the endorsement of a generalized voucher...

In the absence of vouchers, only parents with enough money are able to seek out good schools by going private; but under a voucher system, they argue, with the cost of private education much reduced (or zero), many more parents would be able to — and would want to.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.