Sentences with phrase «provided by the private school»

Students can receive a scholarship worth up to $ 8,000 to cover the costs of private school tuition, fees, and transportation if it is provided by the private school.

These students are clearly nested in, and are able to benefit from, the protective systems of family and the intimacy and support provided by the private school.

Not exact matches

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.

But I realised that by home educating them and going to different groups within the home education community they will gain more than even a private school can provide, such as more knowledge of the world.

On Thursday night, more than 100 residents from Lincoln Park and the Gold Coast crowded into the Lincoln Park Library to express their anger over construction of the $ 2 million field, most of the money for which is being provided by the private Latin School of Chicago.

Free and Reduced Cost School Lunches Free and reduced cost school lunches can be provided by any public or nonprofit private school or daySchool Lunches Free and reduced cost school lunches can be provided by any public or nonprofit private school or dayschool lunches can be provided by any public or nonprofit private school or dayschool or day care.

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.

The BHA opposes state funding of Steiner schools because of concerns about pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

The coalition has already announced measures to limit tax credits, scrap the Child Trust Fund, for the part - privatisation of Royal Mail, to scrap National Insurance increases for employers but maintain them for employees, cut by 10,000 the planned extra university places, provide for a greater role for the private sector in «free schools» and a «review» of all employment law to «maximise flexibility» amongst other measures.

The BHA has long - standing concerns about Steiner schools including pseudoscience on the curriculum (including scepticism of evolution and vaccinations and support for homeopathy), homeopathy being given to pupils by the schools» «anthroposophical doctors», and the fact that a number of private and at least one state school has opted out of providing vaccinations.

One bill would provide for a five - year extension of the program, with the trade off being the creation of an education tax credit meant to spur donations that benefit private and parochial schools — a provision staunchly opposed by teachers unions.

Hawkins» told local supporters that his platform includes guaranteeing jobs for all — be they private or public sector — a $ 15 per hour minimum wage, universal healthcare, fully funded public schools, eliminating the Common Core education standards and providing 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

Under a 2014 law opposed by Mr. de Blasio and championed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City is legally required to provide new charter schools free rent in public school buildings or pay for their rent in a private building.

The association, led by Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts, urged lawmakers to provide funding for armed officers in 4,500 public schools and 2,000 private schools.

The veto came amid public and legislative debate on the bill, which opponents claimed would have unconstitutionally provided public funds for religious institutions and overburdened already struggling school districts by forcing them to pay for private special education.

In August, almost 200 parents filed suit to remove five Orthodox members of the school board, claiming that the board materially - assisted private religious schools by providing them with books and programs.

Borough of Opportunity: Tackling poverty and the widening social divide by giving a «hand up» instead of a «hand out» by transforming our state schools, providing a housing ladder of opportunity with home ownership at its core and regenerating our most deprived areas by using the public sector to pump prime major investment by the private sector.

«They had door - to - door transportation,» Mary «Neva» Helms, recalls of the free bus service provided at the time by the Jefferson Parish, La., school district to private school children in this large suburban area outside New Orleans.

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.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

Not surprisingly, progressive types leaned toward unschooling and conservative Protestants trended toward formal curricula, usually provided by fundamentalist private schools, the most popular being A Beka Book, Bob Jones Complete, and Christian Liberty Academy Satellite Sschools, the most popular being A Beka Book, Bob Jones Complete, and Christian Liberty Academy Satellite SchoolsSchools.

As advocated by the 22 - member panel chaired by former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, both bills would expand the Congressionallymandated National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide state - by - state data, measure learning in more core subjects, include out - of - school 17 - year - olds, and provide a larger sampling of private - school students.

Indeed, according to the analysis conducted by the authors of this report, the use of school vouchers — which provide families with public dollars to spend on private schools — is equivalent to missing out on more than one - third of a year of classroom learning.

«Position A: Government should give parents more educational choices by providing taxpayer - funded vouchers to help pay for private or religious schools.

The school was created through a public - private partnership among a number of organizations (PDF), with the intention of providing students with an integrated curriculum that is informed by real - world experiences.

I address this question by analyzing student - level data provided by Step Up for Students, the non-profit organization that administers the program, and information on private schools in Florida provided by the Florida Department of Education.

This claim of low - quality private provision for the poor has also been taken up by British prime minister Tony Blair's Commission for Africa, which recently reported that although «Non-state sectors... have historically provided much education in Africa,» many of these private schools «aiming at those [families] who can not afford the fees common in state schools... are without adequate state regulation and are of a low quality.»

Private schools, by virtue of their being private, are able to maintain some of the necessary conditions for providing a solid education: they can defend their instructional approach, and they can make reasonable demands on students, parents, and tePrivate schools, by virtue of their being private, are able to maintain some of the necessary conditions for providing a solid education: they can defend their instructional approach, and they can make reasonable demands on students, parents, and teprivate, are able to maintain some of the necessary conditions for providing a solid education: they can defend their instructional approach, and they can make reasonable demands on students, parents, and teachers.

By providing access to private and parochial schools as well as charter and other public schools, vouchers begin to level the playing field for families from lower income backgrounds.

After - school programs can improve participants» literacy by providing intensive lessons several times a week and establishing strong bonds between instructors and participants, concludes a two - year study by New York City - based Public / Private Ventures, a public - policy - research organization.

The Washington Scholarship Fund, a nonprofit supported by Robert that has raised private funds to help provide tuition scholarships for private school students, was selected by the Department of Education to administer the effort.

Since the private school teachers tend to have a year or so more formal education than free schools provided by NGOs, there is some community perception that they are better, although this may not be the case at all, he notes.

The school district, they argued, was not providing Drew with the «free appropriate public education» required by IDEA, thus qualifying him for placement in a private program.

Yet the high level of satisfaction with private schools provides encouragement for those who support school voucher initiatives, which increase access to the private sector by paying some or all of students» tuition.

By contrast, as Tooley explains, private schools must «ensure that the quality of education provided was at least high enough to satisfy parents, linking the desire to make a profit with the desire to maintain or raise standards in education.»

The tax - credit scholarship program is entirely funded by voluntary donations from individuals and businesses to Student Scholarship Organizations (SSOs), nonprofits that provide students with scholarships to attend private schools.

The students, parent / guardians and educators of non-profit, private and religiously - affiliated schools — approved by the Washington State Board of Education — are eligible for benefits provided through several major federal education grant programs.

Private schools have the right to exist and to operate, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510, but the State is not required by the Equal Protection Clause to provide assistance to private schools equivalent to that it provides to public schools without regard to whether the private schools discriminate on racial gPrivate schools have the right to exist and to operate, Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U. S. 510, but the State is not required by the Equal Protection Clause to provide assistance to private schools equivalent to that it provides to public schools without regard to whether the private schools discriminate on racial gprivate schools equivalent to that it provides to public schools without regard to whether the private schools discriminate on racial gprivate schools discriminate on racial grounds.

Private schools that provide special education services must provide information about what services will be offered, and must contrast that with the special education services provided by the local school system.

Five years ago, Indiana launched a private school voucher program that aimed to provide an alternative to faltering public schools while saving the state money by essentially outsourcing the education of some students.

In 1992 an initiative that would have provided a voucher to any student, regardless of family income, for use in private schools was defeated by a two - to - one margin.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Bill Owens last month, will provide state - financed vouchers of up to $ 5,000 to low - income students in low - performing urban districts to pay for tuition at religious or other private schools.

In the afternoons, many children go from school to English lessons provided by private companies or tutors, for which their parents pay hundreds of dollars a month.

However, public schools must, by law, provide students with an IEP if it is determined that the student has a disability, while private schools have no such legal obligation.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

The proposed New Century Scholars program, which would require approval by the legislature, would provide $ 2,000 in state aid to students who maintain a B average in high school, perform well on standardized tests, and attend a public or private college or university in Virginia.

A different picture is presented by federal encouragement of charter schools and of providing tuition vouchers for private schools.

Alexandria, Va. (November 24, 2015)- The National School Boards Association (NSBA), joined by the Nevada Association of School Boards (NASB), filed a «friend of the court» (amicus) brief in the First Judicial District Court of Nevada in the case of Lopez v. Schwartz, urging the Court to grant a preliminary injunction to halt the pre-registration process Nevada has initiated to use public funds to provide savings accounts for private education.

His parents argued that the individualized education plan provided by the public school was inadequate, and they sued to compel the school district to pay his private school tuition.

Their budget proposal would slash the Education Department's budget by more than 13 percent, or $ 9 billion, while providing $ 1.25 billion for school choice, including $ 250 million for private school vouchers.2