Sentences with phrase «send children to private school in»

I have friends who are political and economic conservatives, wealthy people who send their children to private schools in New England at a cost of $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 a year.

The shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt has refused to rule out sending his children to private school in the future.

One of the proposed amendments would permit parents to use state - funded vouchers to send their children to private schools in Florida, including religious schools.

Not exact matches

Living in rich enclaves and sending their children to tony private schools, Yale Law School graduates are relatively unaffected.

Public schoolteachers in central cities are far more likely than the average central city resident to send their own children to private schools.

Indeed, by allowing parents to meet the compulsory school attendance requirement by sending their children to private institutions that espouse the second approach, the State tacitly acknowledges that its «compelling interest» in education is adequately served in such schools.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

«Deeper learning has historically been the province of the advantaged — those who could afford to send their children to the best private schools and to live in the most desirable school districts,» Mehta wrote.

Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.

I'm on the verge of sending my child to private schools or homeschooling as I, THE PARENT has the choice in what my child does and does not eat.

The fact is that lower - income groups are much more likely to see the benefits of spending in these areas as they are proportionately less likely to send their children to private fee - paying schools like Harrow or Eton, or have private health insurance and be registered with Harley St doctors.

Very pleased for the sake of diversity that a parent who sends her children to private schools is in the race.

Abbott's decision in 2003 to send her son to the private City of London School after criticising colleagues for sending their children to selective schools, which she herself described as «indefensible» and «intellectually incoherent», caused controversy and criticism.

In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cSchool Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cschool of their choice.

In a statement Friday afternoon, Jessica Proud, Astorino's campaign spokeswoman, criticized King for sending his children to private schools, a point critics have made in questioning the commissioner's push for the Common CorIn a statement Friday afternoon, Jessica Proud, Astorino's campaign spokeswoman, criticized King for sending his children to private schools, a point critics have made in questioning the commissioner's push for the Common Corin questioning the commissioner's push for the Common Core.

And then there is his substantial baggage: sending children to private schools, his shares (recently relinquished) in a family company that doesn't pay a living wage or recognise trade unions, and previously owning shares in a tax - haven firm.

«If you also are outraged by a new chancellor without any experience in public education and who sent her own children to private school, here is an online petition you can sign and forward on,» wrote one parent on an education e-mail list.

It costs thousands of dollars to educate a child, so sending some of them to private schools would free up more space in public schools.

In addition to contacting private companies, parents had also considered giving children at the school large plastic bags to store their coats, backpacks and other belongings, according to a letter sent out to families this week from P.S. 87's parent coordinator.

For example, if a child has a difference in his or her family background which the child is unable to overcome and consequently can't attend a public school, public funds may be used to send the child to a private school.

That the president of the United States sends his own children to private school, while celebrating the denial of that privilege to poor children in his home town of Washington, D. C., is extraordinary, almost beyond belief.

Many of the suburban, middle - class Chinese - American parents in her study had the means to buy their children academically enriching afterschool experiences — tutoring, test - preparation courses, or language classes — and to send them to high - performing, often private, schools.

It's too soon to draw sweeping conclusions about the academic impact of privately financed programs that provide vouchers to help needy families send their children to private schools, the General Accounting Office concludes in a recent report.

Detroit — Michigan's public - school teachers are twice as likely as the general public in the state to send their children to private schools, according to a newspaper survey.

It is manifest in the residential choices made by families... [and] when families, sometimes at great financial sacrifice, decide to send their children to private schools....

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

The survey asks public parents the following question: «If you could afford it, would you be interested in sending your children to a private or parochial school?»

In 2010 and 2011, we asked instead about «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help parents send their children to private schools,» language that implies the scholarships could be used by any family, regardless of income.

The voucher program in Cleveland gives parents state aid to send their children to private schools.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

In a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.&raquIn a Show - Me Institute poll released in May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.&raquin May 2007, 67 percent of Missouri voters and 77 percent of African Americans said they favored a law that would «give individuals and businesses a credit on either their property or state income taxes for contributions they make to education scholarships that help parents send their children to a school of their choice, including public, private, and religious schools.»

In big cities where poor residents and minorities are concentrated, as many as 80 percent of public school parents say they would send their children to private schools if they could afford the tuition.

Wealthy families can afford to live in districts with high - performing government schools or to send their children to private schools.

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.

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

For the first time in history, federal education funds will be linked to a student, so that parents can send their child to any public or charter school, or to a private school, where permitted.

The bad schools tended to be in poor areas because the poor lack political clout and possess fewer alternatives, such as sending their children to private schools, than the privileged.

Meanwhile, advocates invoked the «hypocrisy» of voucher critics in Congress who were rich enough to send their own children to private schools but would deny that option to the city's poorer families.

School voucher programs, which allow eligible families to send their children to private schools with the help of public funds, have sparked controversy since the first such initiative was launched in Milwaukee in 1991.

Wealthy families can afford to live in districts with high - performing government schools or send their children to private schools.

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

In that hypothetical, 34 % of parents say they would send their child to a public school, but 31 % would choose a private school, 17 % a charter school, and 14 % a religious school.

As in past years, the 2017 poll shows little public support for using public money to send children to private schools.

Pence won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap, which was previously $ 4,800, on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

We send our children to school for the private purpose of preparing for personal advancement — for college, career, and in hope that they might do a little better in life than we have.

In several of America's cities, public schools have long been dangerous or academically troubled; for families with means, the solution has been to send their children to expensive private schools or to move to better public - school districts.

Pence has won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap (previously $ 4,800) on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

Even though 87 % of parents with school - age children have sent a child to a public school, more than a quarter have made use of an alternative type of school: 14 % have had a child in a private school, 9 % a charter school and 8 % have homeschooled their children.

Even those who remained in the city increasingly chose to send their children to private schools.