Sentences with phrase «providing access to private schools»

Although few specific lessons for policy can be drawn from a study of any single program, our results show that providing access to private schools can increase the college - going rates of thousands of low - income students.

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It's a legitimate concern, and one I share... the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

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.

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.

Instead of serving as a funding source that is student - centered, Title I dollars are made available to private schools through the equitable services provision, which provides private schools that meet eligibility criteria access to Title I programs and services, not Title I dollars.

But I can also imagine that the experience of attending a private school in the nation's capital could bring benefits that might not show up until years later: exposure to a new peer group that holds higher expectations in terms of college - going and the like; access to a network of families that opens up opportunities; a religious education that provides meaning, perhaps a stronger grounding in both purpose and character, and that leads to personal growth.

For advocates of school choice, this amendment provides no inroads for lower or middle - income families to gain access to private schooling, if they so choose.

«Private school choice programs are providing children across the country with access to a world - class education and the opportunity to succeed throughout their lives,» said Betsy DeVos, chairman of the American Federation for Children.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

The purpose of VPI + is to increase preschool access, quality, and impact while providing preschool programs through participating school divisions and in partnerships with private providers.

While many private schools offer high - quality pre-kindergarten programs and full - day kindergartens, providing enriching educational opportunities for children under age 6, many children who attend public schools, particularly children living in poverty, do not have access to these programs.

While access to the Dyslexia Scholarship will become easier, the services that participating private schools must provide will not.

Where a state school is struggling to provide stimulating material in maths, why should it not seek and receive the support of a private school curriculum where kids — different only in their parent's income — are achieving the results that give them access to lucrative and stimulating careers?

Six years after the initial attempt to create a tax credit program, Louisiana's tax credit program will provide families with greater access to high - quality private schools.

Currently, low income families in Milwaukee have access to a state - funded voucher program that provides around $ 6500 each to about 20,000 students annually who attend over 100 private schools in Milwaukee.

Starting in the 2012 - 13 school year, Project LIFT operates as a semi-autonomous Learning Community within CMS, providing the initiative with CMS infrastructural support and access to an initial $ 55 Million investment of private resources to drive a multifaceted reform effort in Charlotte's highest poverty schools.

The governing body of a private voucher school is required to provide a copy of, or access to, a summary containing the same information to the parent or guardian of each pupil who is attending the private school under a parental choice (voucher) program.

If the United States could somehow guarantee poor people a fair shot at the American dream through shifting education policies alone, then perhaps we wouldn't have to feel so damn bad about inequality — about low tax rates and loopholes that benefit the superrich and prevent us from expanding access to childcare and food stamps; about private primary and secondary schools that cost as much annually as an Ivy League college, and provide similar benefits; about moving to a different neighborhood, or to the suburbs, to avoid sending our children to school with kids who are not like them.

«Pearson's promotion of high - stakes tests is undermining the ability of schools to provide a well - balanced and broad curriculum, while its involvement with low - cost private schools in the Global South is jeopardizing access to education for many children,» Blower said.

This bill clearly demonstrates that legislators» «school choice» agenda is about providing subsidies to wealthy families that send their kids to private schools and NOT about ensuring that all students, including poor children, have access to a quality education.

School vouchers of $ 4,200 a year, formally known as «Opportunity Scholarships,» are touted as a way to help low - income and minority children who are falling behind in their local public schools by providing access to better options in private ones.

This means that all schools large and small, urban and rural, public and private, brick and mortar or virtual, need to provide access to teaching expertise in the library as well as best resources, technologies and physical and virtual learning spaces to support learner needs as they evolve.

With passage of the Opportunity Scholarship program in the summer of 2013, North Carolina has joined 22 other states and the District of Columbia in providing families greater access to private schools.

I also strongly object to the federal government's continued willingness to provide private businesses access to scarce tax - dollars to fund charter schools that are then allowed to flaunt the rules and regulations that traditional public schools are required to follow.

Scholarship tax credit programs give families greater access to high - quality private schools by providing incentives for businesses and individuals to get involved in education reform.

Tax - credit scholarships are programs that help low - and middle - income K — 12 families access a better educational fit for their children by allowing taxpayers to receive full or partial tax credits when they donate to nonprofits that provide private school scholarships.

Alternatives that have been used successfully in other schools or otherwise proposed include a certain number of seats of lower tuition for those experiencing financial hardships, public - private partnerships for projects and initiatives in the areas of legal technology and artificial intelligence to provide salaries while in law school, and a tuition forgiveness program for those who enroll in post-graduate access to justice programs.

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Evidence from a major longitudinal study suggests that British private schools provide advantages in educational attainment and access to top universities [24], and graduates of private schools have a labour market advantage even controlling for their educational qualifications [25].

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