Sentences with phrase «private schools close»

My mom — who has always been my hero — trusted her instincts and enrolled me in a relatively unknown private school close to our home.

One private school closing every fortnight as recession - struck families choose state schools

One private school closing every fortnight as recession - struck families choose state schools - Daily Mail

Fly - by - night private schools closing down have become commonplace in Milwaukee and other places that unaccountable vouchers have sunk their roots in.

Not exact matches

Parents are increasingly interested in providing private school funding for their children 1) because they see the value and importance of good education and 2) because of frequent public school closings.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

By making these skills available to all students — not just those able to attend a private school that offers such classes — it levels the education playing field and puts all students one step closer to landing a job in New York's expanding technology scene.

With private loans, if your school lied to you about your chances of a successful career, the university closed, or you became disabled, you still have to make payments on your loan.

Today the State is closing down the state primary schools for the poor, and they are not interested in aiding private agencies to conduct such schools, because they see it as a costly exercise in social welfare which reduces money for investment in hi - tech development aimed at economic growth.

If you pay close attention to your community news, you'll often come across a swap - meet of sorts, whether it's in your local library, a church basement, or in the case of our NYC fave, Little Swappies, at the incredible Avenues private school!

Your grade - schooler understands the occasional need for «private time,» and he should know that he needs to knock before coming in when your door is closed.

Commissioner Elia held a lengthy hearing in June to review a Buffalo School Board request to remove Paladino in violation of executive meeting board rules in which he revealed private, closed - door information on the teachers» contract.

In earnest preparation for the state gubernatorial election, Kogi government has ordered that all public and private schools in the state be closed from Tuesday, Nov. 18 to Monday, Nov. 23.

Three PFI schools have been forced to close because of low pupil numbers, but local authorities are still financially tied to the private financiers.

Private schools providing may have to close or merge due to the recession, educators were warned today.

A proposal that would link a tax credit for donations to public schools and fund private - school scholarships to the Dream Act is not «viable» Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said on Monday after emerging from a closed - door meeting with Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

New York State could eliminate its $ 3.5 billion budget deficit — money that could help bolster schools and other social needs — if state lawmakers closed the «carried interest» loophole favoring private equity and hedge fund managers, said UFT President Michael Mulgrew and other proponents of closing the carried interest loophole at an Albany news conference on Feb. 14.

The senator, the former Erie County Sheriff, noted he co-sponsored a bill to expand the criminal statute of limitations in abuse cases sponsored and in January introduced a bill to close a loophole that does not require private school teachers and administrators — unlike their public school counterparts — to report allegations of abuse.

«This represents a further disinvestment in neighborhood public schools and confirms parents» belief that CPS has a larger plan to close neighborhood schools or turn them over to a private operator and privatize public education in Chicago's African American and Latino communities.»

Using powers granted under an ongoing state of emergency, the government fired 2346 more university staff, closed 15 private universities — leaving tens of thousands of students in the lurch — and launched a fresh wave of firings at secondary schools.

The small private school my younger kids have been attending for the past 4 + years is closing because of the mismanagement and bad decisions of the -LSB-...] Read more...

Oh, how I wish we lived closer to a private school.

They married on October 26, 2002 in a private ceremony in Dallas, with close to 300 guests.Nick was on summer break from studying Sports Medicine at Miami University in Ohio when he got an invitation from a high school friend to join an up - and - coming vocal group in Los Angeles.

(Which also includes his wife pushing him to enroll his son in private school, which he can't afford unless the deal closes).

Closer to home, Barbara Carletta Chen was volunteering at a free, private middle school serving first - generation students in San Diego.

After several months of protests and concomitant uncertainty for the 160,000 home - schooled children in the state, the court reversed the ruling to permit home schooling as a «species of private school education» and came surprisingly close to finding in the federal Constitution a right to home school.

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago is considering closing some schools, after the Illinois legislature failed to pass a measure that would have directed $ 12 million in aid to private and parochial schools.

In sum, Bryk's account suggests that private schools create closed communities of like - minded people.

The closest parallels were the private micro-schools, such as AltSchool and Acton Academy, and Summit Public Schools, a charter network in Silicon Valley that incorporates a variety of learning software into its programs.

While district - operated schools still serve more than 80 percent of the U.S. school - age population, and private schools serve close to 10 percent, charters serve only about 6 percent (a share that is just slightly larger than that of the home - schooling sector).

Federal data from NCES offers a potentially surprising revelation: Private school teachers have higher turnover rates than their public school counterparts, and it's not particularly close.

It does not turn negative unless one assumes close to 30 percent of MPCP's low - income voucher users would have attended private schools, an assumption that seems unrealistically high.

The gap in basic proficiency on state tests between participating private schools and public schools statewide, for example, has closed from 27 percentage points in 2013 to 18 points in 2015.

Private - school owners in Kibera alone reported a total enrollment decline of some 6,500 after Free Primary Education was initiated; some schools closed altogether.

While Catholic schools were closing, the number of charter schools was increasing, and various states were setting up voucher programs for low - income students to attend (some) private schools.

One obvious solution for her was a private Muslim school, but there were none close enough for her to attend.

At least 60 percent of rural families are within ten miles of intradistrict choice, interdistrict choice, and private schools, but urban families are more likely to have these choices close by.

Including closing weak charter schools or cutting off public funding to private schools of choice if they diminish achievement?

• As many as twenty states are considering «parent trigger» legislation, which closes failing schools upon a majority vote of parents and replaces the staff, charters the school for private management, or allows the students to attend private or other public schools.

These case studies take a close look at some of the private schools accepting voucher students.

For every 1.1 miles closer to the nearest private school, public school math and reading performance increases by 1.5 percent of a standard deviation in the first year following the announcement of the scholarship program.

The Portfolio Manager would govern schools of all types in a location — traditional, charter, and perhaps private — and select which schools should be allowed to operate, which should be closed, and police certain aspects of their operations, including admissions, transportation, and perhaps special education, discipline, and other issues.

That said, most of the estimates are statistically insignificant, except for public schools located quite close to private schools participating in the program.

In dioceses like New Orleans and Cincinnati, where publicly funded voucher and tax credit programs provide disadvantaged students public money to attend private and parochial schools, a half dozen or more schools have closed since 2014.

Unlike most private schools, however, they are required to participate in state testing systems and can be closed by their authorizers if they fail to meet performance goals.

The secretary had heard from several people that the mayor in private conversations had expressed interest in school choice,» said one official close to Paige.

More notable, the gap in basic proficiency between participating private schools and public schools statewide has closed from twenty - seven percentage points in 2013 to eighteen points in 2015.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

In that time, he won praise for uniting education reformers, teachers, principals and business stakeholders behind an aggressive education reform agenda that included opening more than 100 new schools, expanding after - school and summer learning programs, closing down underperforming schools, increasing early childhood and college access, dramatically boosting the caliber of teachers, and building public - private partnerships around a variety of education initiatives.

In fact, District private schools have been closing while charter schools proliferate.