Sentences with phrase «private schools than other»

Smarick has attempted to devise an accountability regime that is more nuanced and sensitive to the unique missions of private schools than other proposals to impose state regulations on private educational choice.

Not exact matches

Other economists don't agree that you need $ 350,000 to be considered rich, however an amount of money that exceeds $ 200,000 per year is enough for a family to lead a more than comfortable lifestyle; this means having the chance to live in a big house, send the kids to private schools, have enough money to travel internationally, own at least 2 cars, and have no debt except a mortgage which will help them build equity.

I think probably the strongest argument for reducing funding for private schools is that Alberta is more generous than other provinces.

Private school students, on average, score better than public school students in reading, math and a host of other subject areas, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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.

Title III of the ADAAA requires that private, non-religious schools take necessary steps to make sure that no child, due to his disability, is «excluded, denied services, segregated or otherwise treated differently than other individuals because of the absence of auxiliary aids and services, unless the entity can demonstrate that taking such steps would fundamentally alter the nature of the good, service, facility, privilege, advantage, or accommodation being offered or would result in an undue burden.

Now I'm not endorsing that both get power careers and leave the child completely unattended, but I have contact with plenty of stay home moms as my child attends a very affluent private school and many of those stay at home moms don't do squat after the kids are dropped off other than yoga.

Acts, P.A. 87 requires public school boards to adopt a policy to require each school to provide an appropriate, private room, other than a restroom, that may be used by an employee to express breast milk.

Furthermore, as others have pointed out it's more difficult to verify that 529 funds are used for educational expenses in a homeschooling setting than in a private school setting (since the private school charges tuition).

Our one - of - a-kind energy is what has been attracting innovators, freedom riders, and immigrants from every other place on Earth, what has more than 2.6 million people waking up here every day, what has young scholars selecting our schools, and what has the public and private sectors investing billions of dollars here.

He is now testing that approach to the limit and his membership, which reads The Guardian more than any other newspaper, is getting to see him portrayed as Pinocchio, public school fag to the Bullingdon boss and Private Pike for his trouble.

Protestants, secularists, and public - school advocates proposed (and sometimes enacted) regulations that charged children with truancy if they attended Catholic schools; taxes on Catholic school property; bans on private schools that taught children in a language other than English; and constitutional amendments forbidding the use of public dollars to support even the secular instruction provided by a Catholic school.

We begin with an oft - cited data point: after controlling for differences in education, experience, race, gender, marital status, and other earnings - related characteristics, public school teachers receive considerably lower total annual salaries than private workers.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

Private schools are very much alike with respect to how parents gauge the seriousness of potential problems at the school; they are also more homogeneous than the other two sectors in their instruction in character and values, as perceived by parents.

Other than their shared support for President Obama, what ties them together is this: They went to schools — overwhelmingly but not exclusively private — that children who share their skin color across this country rarely do.

Public school teachers do have lower unemployment rates than other white - collar professionals, lower even than private school teachers, who lose their jobs almost twice as often.

It stipulated that a teacher coming into the system from any other school district (either public or private) could not be given salary credit for more than five years of previous teaching experience.

«In past years, no one in the private sector thought to look to an education school for any reason other than to be of help [to them]-- never to themselves get help.

On other social grounds, moreover, the expansion of choice goes further than this and actually reverses the traditional association of private schooling with social advantage.

Students in secular private, Catholic, and other religious schools are more likely than students in assigned public schools to have confidence in their ability to exercise civic skills if called upon to do so.

There are numerous devices that can achieve this goal (tax credits and education savings accounts, for instance), and some offer greater flexibility than others, but through the policy lens, they all accomplish the same thing: giving families and children who would not normally have the chance to choose private school the opportunity to do so.

After again controlling for factors other than competition that might affect a private school's demand for certain teachers, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among private schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

While students in Catholic schools (the most common form of private education) and secular private schools are more politically tolerant than students in assigned public schools, the 2 percent of America's students in other religious schools - an amalgam of schools sponsored by many different faiths - score lower on the political tolerance index.

Next, we noted that some parents may be more likely than others to put their children in private schools or move to a different school zone because of a particularly bad cohort, but that parents may be less likely to pull one child out of the school due to a particularly bad cohort when that child has a sibling in the same school.

Scott Milliman and I found, after correcting for this and other errors, that one of the key studies cited by the AFT as alleging racial concentration in charter schools in fact found charter schools no more segregated than district schools, with the notable exception of those charters that had converted from private schools.

Prior to the introduction of the program, some communities in Florida had a much richer and more diverse set of private school options than did other communities.

First, the benefits of attending a private school are greatest for outcomes other than test scores — in particular, the likelihood that a student will graduate from high school and enroll in college.

Though no one at the school was willing to say that Whitefield youth are perfect, there seemed to be a general agreement that, as biology teacher Christopher McDonald puts it, «You would find a much lower incidence of drug use and sexual promiscuity here» than at other local private and public schools.

Washington — Although the nation's proprietary schools — which prepare young people for a wide variety of skilled jobs — enroll a higher proportion of disadvantaged students than do other sectors of the postsecondary - education system, a lower proportion of the schools» students receive financial aid than do students at private colleges and universities.

Could the gains witnessed among voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools actually be the product of some influence other than their being forced to compete against private schools?

While their fees are often lower than other private and parochial schools in their communities, they are not free, unlike charter and public schools, and financial assistance is not widely available, unlike traditional private schools.

Their language suggested that school officials were much more focused on the private and personal outcomes of schooling — preparation for college and career, for example — than on minting public - minded adults who were prepared and motivated to vote, volunteer, donate, or any of the other activities common to active and engaged citizens.

We know precious little about what makes some private - school - choice programs more successful than others — and success itself can be defined in various ways.

According to a report by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), the private school participation rate in the Louisiana Scholarship Program (LSP), a highly regulated traditional school voucher program, is considerably lower than in other states.

• Do certain types of private schools shy away from stronger regulations and accountability more than others?

Mindful that regulations come in many forms and flavors, it's also possible to examine which kinds of regulation (if any) are particularly vexing to private schools and to investigate whether specific regulations are more troublesome to some segments of the diverse private school universe than to others.

The school has become a model of Green Dot success with more graduates attending UCLA than those from any other school, public or private, in the city.

When parents send their children somewhere other than the local public school, it's not because they believe that the private market is the best way to deliver education or that their child will benefit from a longer bus ride.

Meanwhile, Catholic schools had stronger positive effects in reading than other types of private schools.

After all, if students are assigned to the public school that is closest to where they live there can not be a meaningful imbalance between the demographics of the student population of a school and that of the catchment area for that school (other than as a result of differential use of private schools and quirks in how the catchment area is identified).

For example, AltSchool is a micro-school network in San Francisco with tuition that is 10 to 15 percent cheaper than the average for other private schools in the city --- and it hopes to scale its model such that the price falls over time to the point that it is only marginally more than the cost of educating a public school student.

In other words, the identification rate in the public schools appears to be 60 percent higher (the 5.5 percent increment divided by 9.1 percent) than in the private schools.

Prekindergarten teachers who work in schools and other publicly operated settings are better - qualified, get higher pay, and stay in their jobs longer than those who work in classrooms operated by private organizations, a study concludes.

These firms believe that, using economies of scale as well as other tools that are more readily available to the private sector, they can build organizations that use time and resources more efficiently and effectively than public school districts, leading to higher student achievement at a similar cost.

It is unclear what the overall point of this amendment is other than to allow wealthier families to grow money for private / alternative schooling in a tax - free haven.

Many families support voucher programs, as it allows them to use tax dollars they pay for education, but aren't able to use otherwise if they elect to attend a school other than the local private school.

Congregations and other religious organizations often see religious education as an extension of their ministry and therefore, subsidize these schools, making them appear more affordable than other private, nonreligious schools.

Too often charter schools, like other public schools, lack the specialized knowledge to know how to serve students with disabilities, especially severe disabilities, and to meet their needs directly, rather than serving them through a private placement outside of the school.

The Kentucky Court of Appeals, which was then the state's highest court, held that a statute authorizing public aid to private schools for exceptional children did not violate, among other Constitutional Provisions on Education, Kentucky's Blaine Amendment because the funds were for children's «welfare» rather than «education.»