Sentences with phrase «private schools their children attend»

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Well, both my children attend a private school.

If the unity of society requires that children from all different backgrounds go to school together, then we must outlaw private schools and compel suburban children to go to the same schools inner - city children attend.

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

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

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.

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.

I have attended to children at schools, businesses, private households, and child care institutions.

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.

Register at http://www.ourkids.net/expo to attend the Our Kids Private School Expos to explore all these options available to you and your child.

Spunky and outgoing 6 - year - old who attends a local Christian private school where I teach elementary age children.

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.

You might live in a health - conscious, progressive city and / or your children might attend a school (public or private) in which the parent community is well educated about nutrition — or at least open to nutrition education.

Private schools usually rely on fees from families whose children attend the school for funding, however, sometimes such schools also receive government support.

In addition to her more than sixteen years as a coach / cheerleader for Special Olympics in Area 10, Sandy serves on the board for Jacob's Ladder Learning Center, a private school where special needs students learn life skills, and she started a nutritional feeding program for the mentally and physically challenged children who attend Camp Silver Cloud.

One is an education tax credit that would give donors a tax break for funding scholarships to allow poor children to attend private schools, and also for money given to extra curricular programs at public schools.

Senate Republicans introduced a bill that would have granted de Blasio three years, but only if Democrats agree to an education tax credit, which enables public school children to attend private schools.

The net effect of this not - thought - through policy is that, in many cases, children from rich and affluent homes who attend some of the best private schools for their primary education will be the beneficiaries of this scholarships, and children of less endowed schools and remote villages and towns will be disadvantaged.

The board is made up mostly of Orthodox men whose children attend private religious schools.

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.

Half of that money would be used to fund scholarships for low - and middle - income children to attend public schools outside their district or private and parochial schools.

The money would primarily fund scholarships for poor children to attend private and religious schools.

BISON Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 20Children's Scholarship Fund, $ 10,000 to help pay for seven low - income Lockport - area children to attend the private school of their choice in 20children to attend the private school of their choice in 2017 - 18.

But the governor pulled back from efforts to pass an education tax credit that would benefit donors who give up to $ 1 million, if they give money to scholarships for poor children to attend private schools.

Over time, many of its members have been elected from the orthodox Jewish community, whose children attend private religious schools.

Recounting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's recent speech on educational policy, he noted that it focused on providing vouchers for children nationwide to attend whatever type of school they choose, whether public or private.

For example, if a child has a difference in his or her family background which the child is unable to overcome and consequently can't attend a public school, public funds may be used to send the child to a private school.

After the regular six - to eight - hour school day, many children attend extra classes at private schools and devote long hours to homework in the evening.

Aiden's father, Gabe, is Jewish and, although Aiden has rejected faith ever since he was a teen, his children attend a private Jewish school in L.A. as part of a deal Aiden made with his father that keeps the kids out of public school.

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.

This year, Immaculate also began accepting the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, a different kind of voucher that allows students on Individualized Education Plans to attend private schools and receive a voucher worth up to $ 20,000, depending on the severity of a child's disability.

The expansion of charter and magnet schools, along with private school options, does provide some opportunities for children in high - poverty areas to attend schools that are more mixed in terms of class and income.

Other organizations focus on the private school sector and issues such as using taxpayer - funded scholarships, or vouchers, or tuition tax credits to enable children to attend private schools.

The plaintiffs also allege that they have been injured because some of their children attend public schools, and because when a student uses a private scholarship to switch from public to private school it reduces district funding.

The budget also creates the Jon Peterson Special Needs Scholarship, which will give approximately 13,000 special needs children scholarships that can be used to pay for private school tuition, to defer the costs of attending an out - of - district public school, or for other services.

The study participants, 30 preschool children and 15 1st and 2nd graders attending private schools in Jackson, Miss., received varied...

In order to maximize the number of responses to questions concerning charter and private schools, respondents were classified as charter - school parents if they currently had a child in a charter school, even if they had other children who attended other school types; as private - school parents if they currently had a child in a private school but not in a charter school; or as district - school parents if they had a child in a district school but not in either the charter or private sector.

After verifying the presence of school - age children in the household, respondents were asked how many of these children currently attend schools in a variety of sectors: district school, charter school, private school, and home school.

Yet there's none of the outcry that surfaces when someone proposes vouchers so poor children can attend private schools at public expense.

Dianne Payne leaves the Tweed Courthouse in Manhattan after asking a judge to force the state to pay the same amount of money that the New York City system spends per pupil for two of her children to attend private school.

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income Washington D.C. children to use school vouchers to attend the private schools of their parents» choice, was scheduled to be terminated as its funding had run its course.

They are where lots of the children of the nation's elite get educated (if they aren't attending ritzy private schools).

He believed that it was a serious civil - rights violation for the city's elite public schools to use race - blind admissions standards, while his own children attended exclusive private schools where money, connections, and «culture» played a major role in the admissions process.

We find higher levels of satisfaction among parents of children attending charter schools than among those attending district schools, but lower levels of satisfaction than among those whose children attend private schools.

Polls indicating that voters have not warmed to the idea of giving state education money to children who attend private schools led officials at the leading school - choice advocacy group to announce the decision last month.

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

In 2003, 5.1 million children were attending private schools, down from 5.3 million in 2001.

Mr. Wolf, a professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, is the principal investigator of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which allows low - income children to attend private schools.

The conscience of a liberal should struggle with supporting a system in which the children of the poor are consigned to attend the school that is assigned to them by public officials, regardless of its quality, whereas more affluent parents can shop for the school they want for their children by purchasing a home in the vicinity of the public school they prefer or paying private school tuition.

PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON: The Clintons» only child, Chelsea, attended Sidwell Friends School, a private, Quaker school in WashiSchool, a private, Quaker school in Washischool in Washington.

In terms of total student enrollment in the slum areas of the three zones, with 918 schools, 76 percent of all schoolchildren attended either recognized or unrecognized private schools, with roughly the same percentage of children in the unrecognized private schools as in government schools (see Figure 1).