Sentences with phrase «scholarship opportunities for children»

Today there are 48 school choice programs in 23 states, creating more than 3 million scholarship opportunities for children nationwide.

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Was on the board of the Thorn Tree Project and the Samburu Scholarship Fund, which provide educational opportunities for nomadic children in northern Kenya.

In the past, Stein Family Wines has donated to educational organizations and helped provide scholarships for the students of Napa Valley so the children of vineyard workers may have opportunities their parents did not.

The scholarship enabled me to complete a Master's Degree — an accomplishment that opened doors to new opportunities in school nutrition that later empowered me to seek a Ph.D, and still greater opportunities for all children to have healthy meals and develop healthy food habits.

The members of the public were given the opportunity to ask the parliamentary candidates questions bothering on youth unemployment, lack of transparency and accountability in the sale of the premix fuel, scholarship for fishermen's children, among others.

Frey received the award for her efforts in creating educational opportunities in the Bronx and Westchester by providing much needed scholarships for dozens of children each year.

«Today's reauthorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program should send a strong message to parents across the country who seek to fight for their children's rights: If you fight for your children and you never give up, the road will not always be easy, but in the end, justice will prevail,» said Virginia Walden Ford, executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.

After supporting lifting the cap on charter schools, and sponsoring opportunity scholarship legislation for children with special needs and low - income students, I was ostracized by my party and progressive institutions in North Carolina.

The DC Opportunity Scholarship program offers a maximum of $ 8,381 per child for students in K - 8, and unless it is both reauthorized and redesigned one can not help but wonder if there will be many private schools for these students to attend in the years ahead.

Last week, several news outlets circulated a report by the U.S. Department of Education's research division that found negative results for students who participated in the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only private school choice program for low - income children in Washington, D.C. Predictably, opponents of school choice descended on the report to tout it as evidence that school choice does not work.

The Institute for Justice crafted language for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program that specified that children, not schools, received scholarship proceeds and thus schools were not to be considered recipients of fedScholarship Program that specified that children, not schools, received scholarship proceeds and thus schools were not to be considered recipients of fedscholarship proceeds and thus schools were not to be considered recipients of federal funds.

For the same reason that accepting a scholarship moved families from the object of a conversation to the subject of a conversation about educational opportunity, these same families» decisions to leave one school and to keep their child enrolled in a school of their choice for as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.&raqFor the same reason that accepting a scholarship moved families from the object of a conversation to the subject of a conversation about educational opportunity, these same families» decisions to leave one school and to keep their child enrolled in a school of their choice for as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.&raqfor as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.»

The administration's actions to limit the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship (K — 12 vouchers), for example, were perplexing, if only because the actions were accompanied by empty rhetoric about doing what is best for children.

On July 23, 2015, the North Carolina Supreme Court upheld all aspects of the state's voucher for children of low - income households, the Opportunity Scholarship Program, as constitutional.

The American Federation for Children celebrates North Carolina's recently passed budget for its strong support of school choice and major expansion of the North Carolina Opportunity Scholarship Program.

Hanes was among a handful of Democrats who rankled some liberals in 2013 when they backed the GOP - launched Opportunity Scholarship Program, a controversial program of public vouchers that helps pay for low - income children to attend private schools, most of them with religious backgrounds.

Today, the American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, released the following statement after today's event at the White House with students from the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP):

Families talk about how the Louisiana Scholarship Program has given their children access to better schools and the opportunity for a brighter future.

We believe an education tax credit that would inspire charitable giving to state non-profits who provide scholarships to eligible children is the best way to immediately expand opportunity for children in need of more and better educational options.

Serving Our Children (SOC) believes it is important that you understand how to apply for, and best use your scholarship under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Proscholarship under the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship ProScholarship Program (OSP).

26 Accountability Measures In The Special Needs Bill March 3, 2015 by Grant Callen and Brett Kittredge Senate Bill 2695, The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act, creates a pilot program to give parents the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with $ 6,500 to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.

Held every January, National School Choice Week is an opportunity to raise public awareness of all types of education options for children, including public charter schools, traditional public schools, scholarship schools, online schools, and homeschooling.

SUMMARY The Equal Opportunity for Students with Special Needs Act creates a pilot program to give parents the option of withdrawing their child from a public school and receiving an Education Scholarship Account (ESA) with $ 6,500 to help pay for educational expenses outside the traditional public school.

State lawmakers created a school voucher scheme in 2013 as part of the state budget, setting up «opportunity scholarships» of $ 4,200 that 2,400 children from low - income families could use to pay for tuition at completely unaccountable private or religious schools.

The Commercial Appeal: Guest column: Opportunity Scholarships create path forward for more children http://bit.ly/1nvQQMb

AFC also believes that Congress and the Administration should pursue additional and bold policies to fulfill the President's promise to expand school choice, including: a K - 12 tax credit to leverage private money in support of scholarships for lower income families; vouchers for children of active duty military members so they can attend schools of their parents» choice; Education Savings Accounts for children in Bureau of Indian Education schools; and more funding for the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.

Just under half (45 percent) of parents who applied for but did not end up using an Opportunity Scholarship said they enrolled their children in private schools anyway.

As it happens, in nearly every state with tax - credit scholarships, at least one of the largest SGOs makes scholarships available to all or gives priority to lower - income students, including Arizona School Choice Trust, Georgia GOAL, Step Up for Students in Florida, the Network for Educational Opportunity in New Hampshire, and the Children's Scholarship Fund of Pennsylvania, among others.

In fact, once Florida started to issue school grades to schools and initiated the Opportunity Scholarship process, which requires districts and schools to allow students to transfer to «C» or higher performing schools with transportation, parents who are unsatisfied with their child's school have already left for other schools.

Tennessee Federation for Children Statement on Opportunity Scholarship Legislation http://bit.ly/1V7Mo0t

The American Federation for Children Young Alumni Network is an effort to recruit young adults who received vouchers or opportunity scholarships, tax credit scholarships, education savings accounts, or attended public charter schools, or participated in online and blended learning programs at any time during grades K - 12.

So far, in addition to signing up the Network for Educational Opportunity («NEO»), we are representing Shalimar Encarnacion, who applied to NEO for scholarships for her two children with disabilities, whom she wants to transfer to a private school, as well as Heidi and Geoff Boffito, who need a scholarship to keep their oldest son in his private school.

The State of Arizona gives the parents of a child with a disability who is transferring from an Arizona public school the opportunity to receive an Empowerment Scholarship Account («ESA») to help pay private school tuition for their child.

It's called the Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program (OSTCP)-- a ridiculous bit of legislation that allows children in struggling public schools to use public tax dollars to pay for tuition at a private or parochial school.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

The Scholarship Fund for Inner - City Children provides children in need with the opportunity to receive a high quality, values - based education in a nurturing and safe enviChildren provides children in need with the opportunity to receive a high quality, values - based education in a nurturing and safe envichildren in need with the opportunity to receive a high quality, values - based education in a nurturing and safe environment.

Reality: The most recent national poll conducted by Democratic polling firm Beck Research for the American Federation for Children found 70 percent of voters support school choice, and 65 percent support opportunity scholarships otherwise known as school vouchers.

A variety of scholarship opportunities exist for families choosing Catholic school education for their child.

The Louisiana Federation for Children is a project of the American Federation for Children and the AFC Growth Fund, dedicated to promoting, protecting, and expanding private school choice and opportunity scholarship programs.

One example is the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which federally funds vouchers for low - income children to attend private schools in Washington D.C..

For thousands of children across the U.S., these scholarships have provided tremendous opportunity to fund a quality education.

National black and Hispanic education reform advocacy groups, as well as Florida - based coalitions of minority clergy, have argued that the scholarships provide opportunities for high - quality education to predominantly minority children who wouldn't get it otherwise.

Statement from John Schilling, Chief Operating Officer of the American Federation for Children: «Washington, D.C. families are grateful to the Trump Administration and Congress for their support of the Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP).

Pennsylvania currently has an «opportunity scholarship tax credit program,» which allows corporations a tax credit for contributions to non-profit organizations that in turn provide vouchers for qualifying children.

A thorough transcript will be needed to prove your child's high school work to any higher learning institution, and will also be needed for scholarships and other opportunities coming your teen's way soon.

Your child may also be eligible for federal and state financial aid, or other scholarships and aid opportunities.

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