The most extreme claim in the essay, among many, is that «the effect of vouchers on student achievement is larger than the following in - school factors: exposure to violent crime at school...» Yep, you read that correctly:
selecting a private school for your child is as damaging to them as witnessing school violence.
We recently surveyed more that 2,000 Indiana parents who
selected private schools for their children — some via the state's voucher or tax - credit scholarship programs and some without state assistance — to find out why and how they chose their schools.
Not exact matches
For a bus operator, there is no cargo more precious than a group of school children, so when Norwest Coaches was allocating buses for its private school run, they selected their largest and most luxurious vehicle, the Higer H9250 Midi Bo
For a bus operator, there is no cargo more precious than a group of
school children, so when Norwest Coaches was allocating buses
for its private school run, they selected their largest and most luxurious vehicle, the Higer H9250 Midi Bo
for its
private school run, they
selected their largest and most luxurious vehicle, the Higer H9250 Midi Boss.
While a lottery to
select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public
schools that failed
for two years to meet goals under the federal No
Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C.
children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend
private school.
But when families are asked which type of
school they would
select in order to obtain the best education
for their
child, the numbers change dramatically: 41 percent would choose
private school and 36 percent would remain in public
school.
LFC supports a wide range of educational choice initiatives, so that high quality public, charter and
private schools flourish and parents will have the opportunity to
select the quality
school that works best
for their
children, and so that teachers will have the flexibility to
select the
school that best utilizes their strengths and interests.
Recent columns in the news media, including ones in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, are using self -
selected data points to suggest that
private school choice programs do not work
for children.
If your
child (ren) currently attends a LUMIN
School,
for example, Granville Lutheran, you will
select «
Private School in Wisconsin» then
select «Granville Lutheran».
Because
private schools, whether secular or religious, are able to control
for admission of students they don't want,
private schools ought in theory be able to create classrooms that are more effective learning environments
for those
children the
schools do want and who are, presumably,
selected by the
school for positive reasons.