Sentences with phrase «send our children to the school of»

It is for this reason that parents should be given the right to send their children to schools of their choice, provided certain minimal standards of safety and competency are satisfied, and should not be required to utilize state educational facilities.

They can refuse if you want to send your child to school some of the time.

In this decision, the court struck down an Oregon law that compelled all children to attend a public school and thereby guaranteed the right of parents to send their child to the school of their choice.

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.»

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

It would enable families to send their children to any school of choice, but also to purchase additional educational tools — such as textbooks, online courses, and educational therapies — to have the greatest chance of success for their children.

The Patriot - News reported that [Corbett] «aims to see Pennsylvania join the growing list of states that offer taxpayer - funded vouchers to parents to send their children to a school of their choice... The governor also wants to expand the state's tax credits program that provides for business - funded private school scholarships.»

Why should parents not be allowed to send their children to the school of their choice, be it free school, a faith or secular school?

We deserve the right to send our children to the school of our choice.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program provides low - income parents with the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

It is worth nothing that 84 percent of families would have been unable to send their children to the schools of their choice had it not been for tax - credit scholarships.

The first major push to let American families send their children to schools of their choice using public funds was led by Catholics seeking to escape discriminatory public schools.

Families must be allowed to use their tax - paid dollars to send their children to the schools of their choice.

This week's Louisiana Supreme Court opinion that struck down a school choice funding formula finds the usual suspects who want to prevent families from using their tax - paid dollars to send their children to the schools of their choice.

What we need to do is to give parents the choice as to whether they want to take some portion of what is being spent on their behalf and use that to send their children to the school of their choice... Every child in Texas ought to have a choice»

«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.»

Vouchers and ESAs allow parents to use the funds that would have followed their child to a public school to send their child to a school of their choice.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned public school fails to meet their child's needs.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program provides parents with the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

Not exact matches

«Turning the gesture of sending young school children books into something divisive is unfortunate, but the First Lady remains committed to her efforts on behalf of children everywhere.»

When the Kula Project first engaged with them in May of this year, they asked what their number one need is and the unanimous response was to have the funds to send their children to school.

So instead of starving, the families have enough to eat and enough extra to buy clothing and send their children to school.

«If present public expenditures on schooling were made available to parents [through a voucher] regardless of where they send their children, a wide variety of schools would spring up to meet the demand,» writes Milton Friedman in Capitalism and Freedom.

The editorial neglects to mention that Amazon wants enormous «tax incentives» so the deal would probably cost Baltimore more than it would benefit us — and by «Baltimore,» I mean those of us who live here, who use public services, who send our children to public schools.

«Parents in this province should have peace of mind when they send their children off to school.

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It has failed to make minority faith schools more diverse, because parents of other religions and none do not send their children to those schools.

«If there is a significant problem with our schools it is that many of them are so popular that they are oversubscribed and not every parent who wants to can send their children to one.

The patriarch of the family will buy himself alcohol and cigarettes... money he could have used to send a child or two to school.

In all of the countries of the European Union (except Greece and Italy) and in Australia, New Zealand, Scandinavia and Japan, parents can choose to send their children to nongovernment schools (usually including religious schools) and receive government tax dollars to pay for tuition.

If the government were to fine a parent $ 10 for sending his or her child to a religious school, everyone would recognize this as an unconstitutional penalty on the exercise of religious freedom.

No parent will be induced to send a child to parochial school because of the program, since he or she can get the same program at public school.

When danger of street violence prevented Arieh Klausner from sending Amos to the school attended by the professors» children, he chose an Orthodox religious institution» not because he wished to initiate his son in religious practice, but because of animus against the alternative socialist orientation.

Charles was a clever child, and after local schooling, he and a friend were sent at the very early age of fifteen to University College London, in Gower Street.

They expect trust and you do nt expect the same level of risks sending your child to a bible school compared to sending them to Psychiatric Hospital with pedophiles.

What if every white Christian sending their son or daughter to private school contributed some of their income toward educating an African American child?

He started coordinating Christmas gifts for dozens of children, sent hundreds of kids to class with backpacks full of school supplies, and found ways to help families buy insulin, pay their electricity bill, and find jobs.

Starting in 2000, parents are not required to send children to boarding schools, and today 75 percent of MKS live with their parents year - round.

Just last term, the Court upheld the use of school vouchers even if parents elect to use them to send their children to religious schools (Zelman v. Simmons - Harris [2002]-RRB-.

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.

You would think that parents, who choose to send their children to a Church of England school, might have the intelligence to work out that the Church of England is (allegedly) a Christian organisation that teaches the Christian faith.

Why can't we all just mind our own business when it comes to peoples bedrooms and wedding albums, neither side get's to preach in schools, though I understand how you would think of it as the atheist getting his way by just not having you preach your God to his children in a publicly funded school, but he's not sending an atheist spokesman to influence your children, he just doesn't feel it's right to allow the religious spokesman into the schools to influence any children on his tax dollar.

It was pointed out in the last chapter that schooling is an extension of the educative function of the family and that parents should be at liberty to send their children to nonpublic schools.

On issues like tuition vouchers for families to send their children to private and parochial schools, Orthodox Jews have effectively allied themselves with Catholic and Evangelical Christian conservatives and have gained the support of senators like Joseph Lieberman (D - Conn.)

Yet it is precisely the privilege of Dillard's background that she knew would clip her wings and force another life upon her: the country club and its obsessive cultivation of a suntan; years of dancing school and white cotton gloves; the fate of young ladies to take custody of unquestioned codes, to be «vigilantes of the trivial,» to accept their destiny («to marry Holden Caulfield's roommate, and buy a house in Point Breeze, and send our children to dancing school»)

Meanwhile, a group of 160 African - American community leaders sent NAACP a letter detailing their own objections to its charter - school opposition on behalf of «700,000 black families choosing to send their children to charter public schools, and the tens of thousands more who are still on waiting lists.»

They were considering sending their daughter to the Christian girls» school, and were asking about the plumbing and the fans — the sort of things parents of boarding - school children fret about.