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

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?»

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They sent their children to the best private schools while they stripped the money, the teachers and the hope from our public 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).

While Tory politicians are more likely to send their children to private schools, Labour figures who have used them include Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former lord chancellor, the left - wing MP Diane Abbott and Ruth Kelly, the former transport secretary, who sent her son to one because he has dyslexia.

She declined to disown fellow Labour modernisers who attacked private education, even while sending their children to fee - paying schools.

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.

When asked where they would prefer to send their child if they «could select any type of school,» only 37 percent chose a public school while 40 percent chose a private school, 10 percent chose a charter school, and 11 percent preferred to homeschool.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

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.

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.

Sanders, who attended both public and private schools while growing up in East Nashville, has chosen, along with his wife, to send their children to their neighborhood public school, Inglewood Elementary.

When asked whether they favored or opposed a proposal to offer a «tax credit for individuals and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools,» 53 percent responded favorably while only 29 percent expressed opposition.

Heck, even Arne Duncan, Obama's Secretary of Education and leading corporate education reform advocate, claims that he supports public schools while sending his children to one of the most elite and expensive private schools in the country.

Of course, Luke Bronin isn't alone when it comes to claiming that he is ready to oversee public schools while sending his own child or children to a private school.

Financially strapped parents — like both sets of my grandparents — who saw education as the North Star to liberation scraped together meager earnings to send their children to private school, even while paying taxes for a persistently failing neighborhood school.

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.