Sentences with phrase «send their children to private schools on»

Not exact matches

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.)

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.

I ask about her decision to claim an iPhone on expenses, which we discovered when more members» allowances were released this summer, or the regurgitated palaver over her decision to send her child to private school.

• Everyone should make decisions on their children's education as a parent first and foremost and Mr Clegg has made it clear that his child is more important than any negative political comment he might suffer (I might send my son to private school, 25 January).

«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.

The credits cut taxes on businesses that donate to non-profit scholarship organizations, and those organizations help needy families who want to send their children to private schools.

Corbyn says that the price should be paid by parents who send their children to private school - and Labour quotes an estimate from the Fabian Society that VAT on private school fees could raise about # 1.5 billion per year.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

In their simplest form, legislated tuition tax credits would permit those people who send their children to private schools a credit on their income...

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.

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.

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.

and Susan Collins (R - Maine) haven't given up on their bid to save the federally funded voucher program that allows low - income families in the District to send their children to private schools.

Under the court order, the state must send a spreadsheet with extensive information on each voucher applicant, including name, address and race; the public school, if any, the child attended the previous year; and the private school he or she would like to attend with the voucher.

We send our son to a local private school and agree with Wednesday's State Journal editorial, «Don't splurge on vouchers,» that people in middle to higher income brackets who send their children to private schools don't need vouchers.

Parents who know early on that they'll send a child to private K — 12 school can begin saving in a Coverdell.

Only about half of the private schools participating in voucher programs provided special education or disability related information on their websites, creating a significant problem for families making a decision about where to send their children.

In 1993, columnist George Will was on «This Week With David Brinkley» and asserted that «50 percent of urban area public school teachers with school - age children send their children to private schools.

Why do so many educational policy makers who can afford it, such as former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, send their children to private schools while at the same time doubling down on the one - size - fits - all mandates for «other people's children?»

However, school districts are also required to spend a «proportionate share» of their federal funds on services for children whose parents choose to send them to private schools within the district, whether religious or non-religious.

And what Moales wants now is a seat in the Connecticut State Senate where he can continue his work on behalf of the charter school industry and the corporate education reform movement, all despite the fact that he sent his children to expensive private schools.

Even when they do live in urban districts, many of them either use school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements to get first dibs on schools that don't have Black or Latino children in them, or just send their kids to private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves work in.

Despite the documented benefits of small class sizes, a public school with 15 - 20 students per classroom can be labeled «underutilized,» while private schools (to which many politicians send their children) and charters just a few blocks away can pride themselves on having small class sizes.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Thursday backed a proposal to allow military families to use $ 1.3 billion in public funds to send their children to private school or pay for other education services.

(He indicated in the book that the public schools in England were intended for the children of families that «were on the dole» and that any families with any middle class aspirations sent their children to private schools, often run by charlatans, without regard to the quality of the educational program offered).

Mr Corbyn said this should be funded by higher charges for parents who send their children to private school - and Labour quoted an estimate from the Fabian Society that VAT on private school fees could raise about # 1.5 bn per year.

Proponents of vouchers in Tennessee have stated that their ultimate goal is no limitations on voucher eligibility, so that even high - income families can take money from the public school budget to send their children to private school.

For example, if you send two kids to a private high school which costs an average of $ 20,000 a year for each child, by the time they both graduate you will have spent $ 240,000 on school fees.

Having not attended a private school myself — I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the Newcastle Grammar School scholarship exam and I may have flunked it on purpose (sorry Mum)-- I don't feel a pressing need to send my children tschool myself — I had to be dragged kicking and screaming to do the Newcastle Grammar School scholarship exam and I may have flunked it on purpose (sorry Mum)-- I don't feel a pressing need to send my children tSchool scholarship exam and I may have flunked it on purpose (sorry Mum)-- I don't feel a pressing need to send my children to one.