Sentences with phrase «public schooling for children whose»

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For example, the Broward County Public Schools in Florida have been offering soy milk to any lactose - intolerant child whose parent requests it, but officials say the option is not widely advertised because of the costs involved.

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.

The charters have been used for tax breaks by hedge - fund operators; worse yet, he continued, is that they're siphoning away children in poorer neighborhoods whose parents are aware enough to seek something better for them than their local schools, in what he called «a cannibalization of our public - school system... We need to fully fund our schools.»

Young children in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Publicchildren in deep poverty, whose family income is below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, fare even worse on health and development indicators than children in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Publicchildren in poverty, according to a study released by the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of PublicChildren in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.

For parents whose children are not succeeding in public schools, the alternatives nurtured in Christian schools may provide a viable cure.

This requires honest performance - based assessment of schools and the creation of options - by finding spaces in effective schools, creating new schools, or even, as Rod Paige did on a small scale in Houston, finding money to pay tuition in available private schools for a few dozen children whose public schools just wouldn't turn around.

The public school choice and supplemental services provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act were to be the most tangible lifelines for parents whose children attend low - performing schools.

Parents would have received — and public schools whose enrollment declined would have lost — payments equal to the state's per - pupil contribution for those children.

Allison Hertog is a member of the Step Up for Students governance board and is the founding attorney of Making School Work, a private law firm whose mission is to help parents access the right placement — public or private — for their special needs children.

These questions include the potential value of having a socially and economically diverse group of children together prior to kindergarten; supporting families with working parents who require full - day care and education for their young children; and where best to serve children with special needs whose early education costs already are fully assumed (regardless of family income) by the public schools (based on the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act [IDEA]-RRB-.

A similar pattern appears for the «parent trigger» proposal, which would allow a majority of parents whose children attend a low - performing traditional public school «to sign a petition requiring the district to convert the school into a charter.»

He has particular ire for his fellow principals and school superintendents, who he blames for paving the «path to public education's meltdown,» and for the NEA and AFT, whose efforts in making teaching a lucrative public - sector profession insulated from even desultory performance management, for helping to perpetuate bureaucracies that «feed the egos of adults while squashing the hopes of children».

Examining data on more than 15,000 children born between 1955 and 1985, it found that poor children whose schools were estimated to receive and maintain a 10 percent increase in per - pupil spending (adjusted for inflation) before they began their 12 years of public school were 10 percentage points more likely to complete high school than other poor children.

«These results demonstrate support for vouchers among parents whose children are directly impacted by the quality of Louisiana's public schools.

For students whose needs are not being met in public school, the ESA program allows parents to withdraw their child from public school and have the state education funds that would....

Supporters say private schools offer an option for parents whose children have been failed by traditional public schools, but opponents note schools receiving public vouchers maintain policies that are openly discriminatory toward LGBTQ students and their families.

I write this as a former DC resident whose three children attended Washington public schools (Oyster, Alice Deal, and Woodrow Wilson) and as a long - time Education Correspondent for the PBS NewsHour; in the latter capacity, I chronicled Michelle Rhee's time as Chancellor (12 reports over 3 years) and later produced «The Education of Michelle Rhee» for the PBS series, «Frontline.»

«There's no way we're going to give up on bringing Montessori to public schools, and if that means changing how we do it, then we will,» added Muldrow, a director of youth programming and inclusion for a Madison nonprofit whose two children, ages 2 and 7, attend IMA.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The tension is especially acute for black parents whose children are trapped in the worst public schools.

For students whose needs are not being met in public school, the ESA program allows parents to withdraw their child from public school and have the state education funds that would have been spent on that child deposited into an ESA.

For students whose needs are not being met in public school, school choice programs, such as Education Scholarship Accounts, allow parents to withdraw their child from public school and utilize the state education funds that would have been spent on the child's behalf on a variety of education purposes, such as private school tuition, tutoring, textbooks, therapy, etc..

Suggesting, as the manifesto does at the end, that failing schools in the poorest of neighborhoods can close and those children can find charter schools is a cop out by those whose job it is to find good solutions for public schools.

«For us, it is really about the vision that instead of investing billions of dollars in a wall that divides our community, what we really should be doing is investing heavily in great public schools for our children,» said Blair, whose coalition represents groups like the Advancement Project and the Center for Popular DemocraFor us, it is really about the vision that instead of investing billions of dollars in a wall that divides our community, what we really should be doing is investing heavily in great public schools for our children,» said Blair, whose coalition represents groups like the Advancement Project and the Center for Popular Democrafor our children,» said Blair, whose coalition represents groups like the Advancement Project and the Center for Popular Democrafor Popular Democracy.

Why would an Illinois Republican whose district includes some of the best funded and top «performing» public schools in the state introduce legislation that would result in more charter schools for poor children in Chicago and a continued attack on Chicago's real public schools?

For years, under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), Washington offered special education services to children in both public and private schools — everyone except those whose parents chose religious schools.

We want an end to mayoral control, state takeovers and other privatization schemes that remove our right to hold public officials accountable for the education policy they set; and curiously target cities whose public school systems serve primarily African - American and Latino children.

«We are calling for a moratorium on the expansion of the charter schools at least until such time as: (1) Charter schools are subject to the same transparency and accountability standards as public schools; (2) public funds are not diverted to charter schools at the expense of the public school systems; (3) charter schools cease expelling students that public schools have a duty to educate and; (4) cease to perpetuate de facto segregation of the highest performing children from those whose aspirations may be high but whose talents are not yet as obvious.»

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»

On November 18, a civics class was held outside to dramatize the challenges of the more than 49,000 children whose charter schools receive no public funding for their facilities and...

What makes matters even more startling is the fact that charter school students in private space are the only public school children in the state whose schools are denied public funds for facilities.

We seek to become the first great urban public school system in the country — one whose schools perform on par with the best suburban districts in America, one that personalizes the student experience for all children and one that provides multiple rigorous pathways through and beyond high school to help every child, regardless of background, live up to their potential.

Like: If public school isn't good enough for Muldrow's child, why does she think it should be good enough for children whose parents aren't capable of sending them to private schools?

The Cleveland schools administrator began her teaching career 24 years ago working with the families of children whose behavior problems made it difficult for them to attend traditional public schools.

State Representatives should vote to provide an escape for every special needs child whose local public school just doesn't meet his or her needs.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significantFor example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significantfor students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significantfor extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

On November 18, a civics class was held outside to dramatize the challenges of the more than 49,000 children whose charter schools receive no public funding for their facilities and instead must divert classroom funds to pay rent.

But five years after the program was established, more than half of the state's voucher recipients have never attended Indiana public schools, meaning that taxpayers are now covering private and religious school tuition for children whose parents had previously footed that bill.

Not so, says Judy Winberg is a special education teacher and guidance counselor for almost 30 years, whose Toronto - based Options in Education consulting firm helps parents find the best school program for their children's needs, in both the public and private systems.

The writers urge the UK government to take action: first, by implementing a special, well - funded kindergarten stage for children ages 3 to 7 (when public school begins in the UK), whose focus would be on social and emotional development and outdoor play.