Sentences with phrase «rather than private schools»

MPs and public sector staff have a moral duty to educate their own children in state rather than private schools, a senior Labour MP has declared.

Not exact matches

The fact that we don't have non-recourse loans leads me to believe it's not accurate to consider families would choose to default on loans rather than remove their children from private schools or cut out the annual Chamonix ski trip etc..

Rather than trying to deal with the selective enrollment process or public school lottery system, we decided to look into the private schools instead.

Though Wilma works in a public school district rather than a private catering service, I think you'll see that she and Justin share many of the same challenges.

Most parents will attempt to help their teen change while living with the family at home, rather than immediately sending their troubled teen away to a private boarding school for troubled teens.

Wow, a black mother sends her son to a private school rather than to a school in Hackney (which at the time, I recall, had a reputation for failing black, male students).

He added that he had wanted to go private rather than attend a local state school in Abbott's Hackney constituency.

6.34 pm: Huhne talks about his family background and their «progressive» politics, and his youth at the private Westminster school, where he says he was a «rebel» rather than a «swot».

«Rather than cutting spending on consultants and private contractors, they chose to cut schools,» complained Upper Manhattan City Councilman Robert Jackson, chair of the education committee.

The decision to revamp rather than rebuild also helped the K - 6 school's bottom line — not insignificant in today's cash - strapped educational environment for public and private schools alike.

Only in D.C. can one test whether the Hyde model can be applied to a public school rather than to a private residential one and to a school that serves disadvantaged kids rather than financially privileged ones.

Rather than starting with a federal mandate, a consortium of states and private organizations (such as some combination of Achieve, the state school «chiefs,» and the governors) could develop the curricula and tests, ideally with initial support from major national foundations.

In summary, based on 1) no evidence of a salary penalty when controlling for AFQT rather than years of education, 2) job switchers receiving higher salaries as teachers than as nonteachers, and 3) public school teachers receiving higher salaries than private school teachers, we conclude that the standard regression is, at best, highly misleading.

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.

However, particularly if the voucher value is relatively small, price ceilings mean that private schools will likely only fill empty seats rather than expand enrollment.

Harris instead offers two potential alternatives: 1) the improved public / charter school performance in New Orleans made the performance of the private sector look relatively worse; and 2) the curriculum at most private schools may not have been aligned to the state test, so the poor performance merely reflects that lack of alignment rather than poor performance.

Instances of private placement that occur as a result of parental requests rather than at the initiative of school districts appear to be even more rare.

Does attending a religious private school rather than a secular one have different civic consequences?

According to a longtime observer of the Florida education scene, rather than have the school control the educational experiences, as occurs in course access, a subset of parents, particularly at the elementary school level — both public and home - school — are opting to manage their children's education and customize a mix of public brick - and - mortar school, online school, home school, and even some private school (such as private music lessons) experiences.

Rather than reallocating dollars slated for education, supporters proposed to give tax credits to individuals and businesses that donated money to nonprofit organizations providing low - income students with scholarship grants to attend private schools (see Table 1).

Fully 58 percent of parents with children in underperforming schools said that they would rather send their child to a private school than their current public school (see Figure 2), compared with 39 percent of parents with children in schools that made adequate progress.

Nearly half of upper - income parents say they would send their children to public rather than private or parochial schools even if cost were not a factor, a survey finds.

If this is the case, any positive correlation between private schooling and student achievement could reflect a country's income or educational commitment rather than any beneficial effects of competition.

Some white students, rather than study with black students in an integrated high school, chose to attend private academies, which still exist today.

The program, the court ruled, is «outside the scope of [the 1975 desegregation ruling] because it provides aid to students rather than to private schools.»

The report cited that private school students may have lower incentives to perform well at university and therefore are more likely to invest more effort in social life rather than academic work.

The Chicago native said his mother, a teacher, opted to send him to private school rather than the city's turbulent public system.

They include private - school vouchers, online courses and requiring third - graders to pass reading tests before they move up to fourth grade, rather than being pushed along with their peers — or «social promotion.»

In 2012, former NYC chancellor Joel Klein (and Michelle Rhee, and Warren Buffett) half - jokingly floated the idea of «banning» private schools and assigning children to schools randomly (rather than by neighborhood or test score).

While the President's FY 2012 Budget requests funding to improve D.C. public schools and expand high - quality public charter schools, the Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.

He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school students, most every finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to gains for public and private school students.

In fact, Brookings Institution released an article stating that recent research on voucher programs in Indiana and Louisiana found that those students who took advantage of vouchers to attend private school, rather than their local public schools, received lower scores than their public school peers.

The fact that organizations like Stand for Children and Democrats for Education Reform prefer to stand with the teachers» unions rather than standing with the 3.5 million children in charter schools and private choice programs, and the millions more who desperately want access to better options, speaks volumes.

The Assembly bill also would let school districts and private schools choose from four tests that measure student performance rather than use the tests selected by the state Department of Public Instruction.

Rather than using the private funds to supplement an art teacher's salary at one given school, for example, a local art museum can increase programming for the entire district.

NYC private schools frequently hire teachers who have Bachelor's and Master's degrees in their subject areas, rather than in education.

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.

When public schools are shielded from competition with better performing private and charter schools, school administrators can succumb to pressures from teachers» unions rather than from parents who demand superior performance.

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.»

Labour have also caused concerned parents to send their kids to private schools, grammar schools or personally have them home - educated rather than leaving them in bog - standard bureaucratic comprehensive schools, where classroom sizes are too big.

Suggesting such settings are private schools rather than part of the public estate is one of the alternative truths now peddled by new local authorities keen to cut costs by bringing support back into the LA.

It says that if the initiative were introduced, with pupils selected on merit rather than ability to pay, the social make - up of these private schools would change radically.

Unless North Carolina requires the same level of accountability and transparency from the private and religious schools that receive vouchers as it requires from other schools that receive public money, it is making education policy on hunches and ideology rather than real data.

Some school districts use «private placement» to sell bonds rather than using a more traditional method of selling bonds in the primary market to many investors.

The drop - out rate in public schools tends to have a negative effect on matriculation data, and many students who enter into trade careers tend to enroll at public schools rather than private, which decreases the rate of students who go on to college.

The chamber's top education budget writer, Rep. Manny Diaz, Jr., said the legislation could ultimately create a scenario where a district is able to turn a failing school into a charter but maintain control over it rather than turning it over a private operator.

This analysis assumes that the students currently in our public school data set would remain in public schools, rather than move to private schools or leave the city.

trainees should be employed in a maintained school in the partnership rather than in the private school

In many Pacific Rim countries, attending additional private tuition classes after school is the norm rather than the exception.

For example, the current teacher contract doesn't provide for bonuses, so signing and year - end bonuses may come from private donations, rather than the school district, he said.