Sentences with phrase «small number of private schools»

In most states, this STO is associated with (and generally created by) a small number of private schools.

The small number of private schools does not suffice to support a great diversity of content providers, so even most private schools use textbooks and other materials designed to meet some state's specifications (usually California, New York, or Texas).

This design — and the relatively small number of private schools in rural communities — has greatly contributed to this socio - economic segregation.64 Such policies, if adopted nationally in the United States, could have similar consequences for economic and racial segregation considering the strong correlation between race and income in many places.

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Indeed, as reported by the New York Times, states have promoted these tax credit programs to raise funds for private schools, even though the number of AMT filers is relatively small, approximately five percent of all filers.

Good Info, Funding is always an issue when it comes to school lunches, but a number of corporations and private foundations are putting up big money for schools and small farms to implement such programs, especially in areas with high obesity rates.

Even with a sample this large, the number of students attending other religious and secular private schools is still quite small (80 and 102 cases, respectively).

Vouchers have come to include the use of private funding as partial tuition support for low - income students to attend private schools (as in Washington, D.C., San Antonio, and New York); the use of public funds to allow a small number of low - income students to attend private schools (as in Milwaukee and Cleveland); or, as in the case of Florida, the provision of public funds for students to attend a private school or another public school if their current public school has a poor aca - demic record.

And in Kibera, even though the number of government schools is too small to make statistical comparisons meaningful, 74 percent of teachers were teaching in private schools when our researchers visited them, and only one teacher was absent.

A significant number of the students who were offered vouchers did not use them; similarly, a smaller proportion of those students not offered a voucher attended a private school anyway.

Third, there was enough spare capacity in existing private schools to accommodate the small number of CSF scholarship winners.

Furthermore, this proposal would force the DfE to go ahead with plans to fix a number of awkward funding problems - for example, at what level it ought to fund small schools or schools with expensive private finance deals, for example.

In 1990 Wisconsin began providing vouchers to a small number of low - income students to attend nonsectarian private schools.

While the President's FY 2012 Budget requests funding to improve D.C. public schools and expand high - quality public charter schools, the Administration opposes targeting resources to help a small number of individuals attend private schools rather than creating access to great public schools for every child.

A study of a federally - funded voucher program in Washington D.C. found that students graduated from small private high schools in larger numbers.

And a study of a privately - financed voucher program in New York City found that black students, especially, enrolled in college in higher numbers when they attended a small, private high school.

A smaller number of our trainers train at military (DOD) schools, as well as private and Christian schools.

It is unlikely that Louisiana's other two school choice programs — special needs program (342 students participating in 2015 - 2016) and tax credit scholarship program (781 students participating in 2015 - 2016)-- have a major impact on participation by private schools due to the relatively small number of students participating in these programs

A number of white families left the public schools in these communities in the 1960s and 1970s to start these small, private academies, many of which still thrive.

The report says the number of students surveyed who attend secular private schools was too small to measure.

If passed, this legislation will only hurry the division of the state's teacher workforce into two castes — one, a group of hurriedly - prepared and hastily - certified edutourists for the state's charter and private schools, and an increasingly small and dwindling number of hyper - scrutinized and continuously - monitored graduates of traditional teacher preparation programs.

A smaller number of our trainers train at boys and girls clubs, military (DOD) schools, as well as at churches and private and Christian schools.

It will just make a good education a little easier to get in the relatively small number of cases when that education happens to be at a private school.

During peak season (long - weekends & school holidays) you will share the beach with just a small number of holidaying fisherman searching for that special spot on the beach likely to return a fish or two, but still quite private.

For the past thirteen years Mr. Schmidt has operated his construction consulting firm, advising a variety of private and public sector clients including Ritz Carton on Central Park South, Carl Icahn Charter School, the US Federal Government and a number of small and large developers.