Sentences with phrase «send their child to a private school for»

Crumbling urban schools yet those white liberals shot down the voucher progran giving black parents a chance to send their child to a private school for a better education.

In 1990, Milwaukee parents were given a choice that no other families in the country had: They could send their children to private schools for free with taxpayer - funded vouchers.

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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.)

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.

Unless you haven't noticed, parents who choose to send their children to private schools are already paying taxes for state school places for their children, taxes they don't get back for places they don't use.

A May 2001 MORI survey for the Independent Schools Information Service showed it to be the biggest factor behind parents» decisions to send their children to private sSchools Information Service showed it to be the biggest factor behind parents» decisions to send their children to private schoolsschools.

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 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 Core.

Cuomo is reviving a proposal nixed by the Legislature last year - a $ 150 million tax credit for parents who send their children to private schools.

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.

He also emerged as a leading proponent of a federal tax credit for low - income families who send their children to private schools.

A New York City mother asked a state judge last week for public money to send two of her children to private school.

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.

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.

Thus, the program does little or nothing for parents who wish to send their child to a private school but are of limited means.

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.»

Nearly three - fourths (72 percent) of the public favors a «tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools.»

There is no assurance that these studies have successfully controlled for an intangible factor: the willingness of parents to pay tuition to send their children to private school and all that this implies about the value they place on education.

Students must come from low - income families who, except for the Cristo Rey program, would not be able to send their child to an academically superior private school.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a study that seeks to better understand the decision - making processes of parents who send their children to private schools.

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.

• When not given a neutral option, 73 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 27 % opposed.

• 57 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 16 % opposed.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

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

A majority of Americans support school choice, including the idea of providing tax - funded scholarships for poor parents to send their children to public, private, or parochial schools, according to a poll released last week.

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.»

On Thursday, the Nevada State Supreme Court dismissed constitutional challenges to Nevada's education savings account (ESA) program, finding that the program is designed for educational purposes and there is no prohibition to parents using ESAs to send their children to private or religious schools.

Williams was also concerned about the raising of income caps for the voucher program, as this gradually shifted funding toward families who were already sending their children to private schools.

Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who sent their children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public school taxes and again by paying tuition for their children's private schools.

In the ongoing effort to improve education for all U.S. students, some policymakers have proposed government funding for parents to send their children to a private school.

Damon, who has proclaimed his love of public schools, was recently outed by Time magazine for choosing to send his own children to private school.

«To be voucher - eligible, our children would have to actually go back to public school, get reenrolled there, be there for year, then we'd have to take them back out at the end and then send them back to our private school,» says AbbotTo be voucher - eligible, our children would have to actually go back to public school, get reenrolled there, be there for year, then we'd have to take them back out at the end and then send them back to our private school,» says Abbotto actually go back to public school, get reenrolled there, be there for year, then we'd have to take them back out at the end and then send them back to our private school,» says Abbotto public school, get reenrolled there, be there for year, then we'd have to take them back out at the end and then send them back to our private school,» says Abbotto take them back out at the end and then send them back to our private school,» says Abbotto our private school,» says Abbott.

Fees range from an average of # 10,123 per term to send a child to a private boarding school, to # 4,398 for day pupils at either a boarding school or private day school.

The Appellate Division held that a school board can not transport private school students on public buses for field trips without some statutory authority and that while parents have the right to send their children to private or parochial schools, there is no corresponding right to equal state aid once they make that decision.

offer parents the option to receive money in an account that they can use for private school tuition and other educational expenses to supplement learning or in lieu of sending their children to public schools

However, for any array of different reasons, some parents decide that they want to send their children to private school.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

ESA's, known as «Vouchers 2.0» by education reformers, offer parents the option to receive money in an account that they can use for private school tuition and other educational expenses to supplement learning or in lieu of sending their children to public schools.

A Michigan Court of Appeals held that a statute permitting local school districts to furnish transportation without charge for students of state - approved private schools did not violate Michigan's first Blaine Amendment (Article I, Section 4) because the statute's intended and actual effect was to assist parents in complying with state compulsory education laws while recognizing their right to send their children to religious schools.

Critics also conveniently forget about all the money public schools receive for services they do not provide when parents, who pay property taxes for public education, send their children to private schools.

For Castorena, the choice was between sending his children, now in 1st and 3rd grades, to Walnut Valley or a private school.

The four incumbents who lost, combined with Tuesday's election of Empower Mississippi supporter Joel Bomgar to a House seat in Madison County, could clear the way for broader legislation supporting charter schools and state aid to parents who want to send their children to private schools...

Latinos have an even stronger preference for sending their children to private schools, but they are less likely than the general population to actually send their children to private schools.

Susan and Asa sent their children to public schools, private schools, parochial schools and they home schooled for a time as well.

Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public schools to send children to private, often religious, schools that don't have to meet state standards.

In a new survey, which was commissioned by American Federation for Children and conducted by Beck Research, 63 percent support «giving parents the right to use tax dollars designated for their child's education to send their child to the public of private school which best serves their needs.»