Sentences with phrase «private schools for children»

This includes limousines, the best private schools for your children and exotic holidays abroad for your family.

Worst: Teachers who work in private schools for children with learning differences do not have qualifications to teach them, only public school teachers do

Problems included: Schools enrolling students without their knowledge, Owners / Adminstrators at one of the private schools for children with disabilities, actually stole identities of the children, Buildings were unsafe and not habitable and some of the major courses at the private schools didn't equate to classes in the public schools, so any student returning to their public school or moving on to college, had to repeat those courses.

And then there are many families who have chosen to pay for private schools for their children.

We recently surveyed more that 2,000 Indiana parents who selected private schools for their children — some via the state's voucher or tax - credit scholarship programs and some without state assistance — to find out why and how they chose their schools.

This report — which focuses on the survey results of parents in Georgia's tax - credit scholarship program — reveals why and how parents of all incomes and education levels choose private schools for their children.

Newspeak plays a central role in the latest Center for American Progress (CAP) broadside against the idea of low - income parents choosing private schools for their children.

Almost every country in the world has had a sector of elite private schools for the children of privilege.

Milton Brutten, a co-founder of one of the country's first private schools for children with learning disabilities, died of complications from a stroke in Wayne, Pa., on March 16.

Newspeak plays a central role in the latest Center for American Progress (CAP) broadside against the idea of low - income parents choosing private schools for their children (because, you know, freedom is slavery).

As the general quality of public education has declined, at least in public perception, and as the power of the youth culture in public schools has increased, many more parents seek private schools for their children, and many of these schools are connected with churches.

This raises the question of whether public money should be used to allow parents to choose private schools for their children.

After graduate school, she secured a position in a private school for children with language and learning disabilities.

The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly: selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.

Now one must pay more for a house in the city plus private school for the children.

The parent vowed to sacrifice sleep and food in order to afford private school for her child.

Voucher: In the school choice context, a program that provides tuition funding to a family that allows them to choose a private school for their children — a publicly funded scholarship for K - 12 students.

A survey of Georgia private school parents in 2013 found the top five reasons why parents chose a private school for their children were all related to school climate and classroom management: better student discipline (50.9 percent), better learning environment (50.8 percent), smaller class sizes (48.9 percent), improved student safety (46.8 percent) and more individual attention for their children (39.3 percent).

Whereas vouchers give parents the freedom to choose a private school for their children, using some public funding, ESAs — now a reality in five states — are more expansive, typically allowing restricted but multiple uses of the money.

In fact, all parents should have a right to sidestep the tricks of the traditionalists and teachers unions, knock down doors and demand the best education treat possible — a choice of a public or private school for their children — and let the edu - dollars follow the student.

Before joining the faculty in 1985, Fuchs was a 1st - grade teacher in a private school for children with behavior problems and a 4th - grade classroom teacher and school psychologist in public schools.

School vouchers give parents the freedom to choose a private school for their children, using all or part of the public funding set aside for their children's education.

Since Coverdell ESAs can be used for private K - 12 education needs, an ESA can be a complimentary strategy to other education savings options if you are planning on private schools for your child.

He was the headmaster of a private school for children aged between three and 16.

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.

If private education is no longer funded for my two children at the avg of 7.5 K per child then we will be moving them to public school.

NEW PLAN Nothing changes with higher education, but you will also be able to withdraw up to $ 10,000 each year, per child, to pay for private or religious school and receive the same tax benefits.

In regard to primary and secondary education, initiatives include imposing caps on class sizes; ensuring schools have the necessary support staff; funding full - day kindergarten and half - day junior kindergarten for vulnerable children; eliminating fees and fundraising for learning essentials, such as computers; phasing out private schools and bringing charter schools under the jurisdiction of school boards; and providing breakfast and lunch programs.

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

For decades, states had used taxes to support public and private schools controlled by Protestants, with the goal not merely of Americanizing but of Protestantizing Catholic children.

Wanting to reach all eligible children, Congress required that remedial programs for those attending private schools be «comparable» in quality to public school programs.

Question: Are families that choose private schools and home education for their children more likely than families involved in public schools to be socially isolated and withdrawn from participation in civic life?

So, for example, on - site remedial educational services could be provided to disadvantaged children enrolled in private schools, but not their counterparts in religious schools (Aguilar v. Felton [1985]-RRB-.

Why didn't the president stand up for the children from the Christian private school who were «abruptly» ordered by a court police officer to stop praying outside the U.S. Supreme Court building?

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

As a result, Jewish groups, though usually nervous about evangelicals» intentions regarding public schools, have pointedly distanced themselves from the position of People for the American Way — one of the active liberal advocacy groups — that parents with religious concerns should enroll their children in private schools.

About three thousand students are already benefiting from the latest wrinkle in five states, «education savings accounts,» which provide even more flexibility to families by allowing those who withdraw their children from public schools to receive a deposit of public funds into government - authorized savings accounts that can be used to pay for private school tuition, online learning programs, private tutoring, educational therapies, or college costs.

The more young, orthodox Catholics we can get on the faculties of parish or private schools — heck, even public schools — the better prepared our children will be for life as faithful and thoughtful Catholics.

In 1951 the nation's scholarship program was opened up to qualifying students who wanted to attend private secondary schools; the government also began providing for children attending all elementary schools a minimal supplementary aid in a form similar to the tuition voucher plans presently under discussion in several American states.

Want to find an LGBT friendly private school or camp for your child?

In other words, the fact that double the number of private school students go on to complete college degrees has more to do with who attends private school than what the private school is actually doing for the child's college prospects.

Parents of children with special needs should be aware of a state - sponsored program that can help them pay for nonpublic school education (private schools or home schools) and for other education - related expenses for their children.

As parents who are considering private education, we may feel unsure about which school would be the best fit for our child.

She has homeschooled her own children as well as others, was a founder of a private Waldorf School (Sanderling School in Carlsbad, CA) and now strives through the Charter movement to bring Waldorf education to all children at Journey School where she has worked for the past 14 years.

If your child attends a private school you will still need to contact the public school where your child's private school is located in order for your teen to be evaluated for special education services.

I would guess most of us say we'd do anything for the benefit of our children short of robbing a bank so they could go to private school.

Your child's school can provide recommendations for Tutoring Centers or services, or may have names of trusted, qualified, private tutors on file for parents to make use of.

Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.

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).