Sentences with phrase «third of public school parents»

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Seventy - five percent of Kentucky voters overall and 76 percent of public school parents back the National School Lunch Program's enhanced nutritional guidelines, now in their thirdschool parents back the National School Lunch Program's enhanced nutritional guidelines, now in their thirdSchool Lunch Program's enhanced nutritional guidelines, now in their third year.

My name is Joanna and I am the parent of third grader Oumar, a student at a public elementary school in Canarsie.

In a phone survey, only one - third of parents who participated in the McKay program reported that they were satisfied with their child's previous public school.

As of 2005, more than one - third of the city's parents chose either to enroll their child in a charter school, use a voucher to go to a private school, or seek out a place in a suburban public school.

A 2014 Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their cPublic Education (CRPE) survey found that while 55 percent of public school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their cpublic school parents participated in choice, nearly one - third of families had some difficulty understanding which schools their children were eligible to attend, a quarter had trouble getting information to choose a school, and one in five reported difficulty in transporting their child to the school of their choice.

If cost and location were not issues, just one - third of parents say they'd pick a traditional public school over a private school (31 %), public charter school (17 %), or a religious school (14 %).

More than two - thirds of parents see the following as reducing the quality of public education: teacher and staff layoffs; increased class sizes; school closings; high turnover rates; and cutbacks in art, music, libraries and physical education.

Well over half of all language - program participants in public schools are U.S. - born, and more than a third have two U.S. - born parents.

In other words, two - thirds of all parents, including those who have never made use of a private school, are not opposed to the idea of giving families a choice of attending private school instead of public school.

My name is Joanna and I am the parent of third grader Oumar, a student at a public elementary school in Canarsie.

For his part, Pocan pointed out that the last expansion of the choice program resulted in three - fourths of the public money going to parents whose kids were already enrolled in the private schools they were getting vouchers for, and two - thirds went to families making over $ 100,000 a year.

It is exactly this kind of public oversight and accountability that Milwaukee parents would lose if MPS schools are handed over to private third party operators in the current state budget bill passed last week by the Joint Finance Committee.

A GOP - leaning polling group found two - thirds support for the strikers among Chicago's public school parents, and majority support among the city's voters — despite the condemnations issued by left - of - center pundits and editorial boards on the kids» behalf.

There are two cities in N.J. where charter school growth is indeed challenging district budgets: Newark and Camden, where the demand by parents for alternative public schools is extremely high and as many as a third of students attend charters.

But what Jennifer Alexander, Governor Malloy and the other proponents of the Common Core fail to tell parents, and the public, is that the Common Core SBAC Test is designed in such a way as to ensure that only about one - third of our state's public school students get passing marks.

A third might be a pledge by school - choice advocates that they will cease any and all attacks upon parents of means who have chosen to pay a premium for good public schools, and who have reasonable concerns about proposals that would change the terms of the deal by affecting the quality of their schools and harming their property values.

«To react to parents who are speaking out by threatening to defund our schools is outrageous,» said Megan Diver, the mother of twin girls who refused their third - grade test at Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

With just under two - thirds of New York State's school districts counted, the New York State Allies for Public Education, a pro opt - out group of parents and teachers that are counting opt - out students district by district, announced yesterday that 177,249 students had already been opted out of the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Common Core testing scheme.