Sentences with phrase «to send one's children to the school of one's choice»

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

The first major push to let American families send their children to schools of their choice using public funds was led by Catholics seeking to escape discriminatory public schools.

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.»

Otto Banks, executive director of REACH Foundation, a Harrisburg - based school - choice advocacy group, said the need for giving parents government funds to send their child to a school of their choice remains as strong as ever.

As the survey prompt explained, an STC program «gives tax credits to individuals and businesses if they contribute money to nonprofit organizations that distribute private scholarships» thereby giving parents «the option of sending their child to the school of their choice,» including private religious or secular schools.

The Arizona Supreme Court had previously upheld a scholarship tax - credit law, which granted dollar - for - dollar tax credits to taxpayers in return for contributions to non-profit scholarship organizations that help families send their children to the schools of their choice.

It is for this reason that parents should be given the right to send their children to schools of their choice, provided certain minimal standards of safety and competency are satisfied, and should not be required to utilize state educational facilities.

In this decision, the court struck down an Oregon law that compelled all children to attend a public school and thereby guaranteed the right of parents to send their child to the school of their choice.

On February 29, 2008, Gov. Bobby Jindal presented the Louisiana Legislature with a proposed budget allocating $ 10 million for a school choice initiative that would enable parents in New Orleans to send their children to the school of their choice, including private schools, with state - funded scholarships.

I still wish all parents could take their per - pupil allotments and send their children to the schools of their choice, but if they could, I'm far from convinced that private schools — simply by virtue of being private — would necessarily ensure a challenging, content - rich, fun - filled liberal arts curriculum with transparent accountability for delivering it.

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.»

Why should parents not be allowed to send their children to the school of their choice, be it free school, a faith or secular school?

We deserve the right to send our children to the school of our choice.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program provides low - income parents with the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

Beginning Tuesday (Jan. 10), students from across Louisiana can apply to participate in the program, which empowers low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

It is worth nothing that 84 percent of families would have been unable to send their children to the schools of their choice had it not been for tax - credit scholarships.

Families must be allowed to use their tax - paid dollars to send their children to the schools of their choice.

This week's Louisiana Supreme Court opinion that struck down a school choice funding formula finds the usual suspects who want to prevent families from using their tax - paid dollars to send their children to the schools of their choice.

What we need to do is to give parents the choice as to whether they want to take some portion of what is being spent on their behalf and use that to send their children to the school of their choice... Every child in Texas ought to have a choice»

Louisiana Federation for Children president Ann Duplessis discusses how the Louisiana Scholarship Program empowers low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

«President Obama has the means to send his children to the school of his choice.

«This is a huge victory for the Louisiana Scholarship Program, which provides low income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents already have — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.»

Vouchers and ESAs allow parents to use the funds that would have followed their child to a public school to send their child to a school of their choice.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned...

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned public school fails to meet their child's needs.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program provides parents with the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

«With thousands of families across the country demanding the opportunity to send their children to the school of their choice, startup funding for high - quality charter schools is more important than ever,» said Nina S. Rees, the president and CEO of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.

The program affords low - income families with the same opportunity as more affluent parents — the financial resources to send their child to the school of their choice.

President Trump's education plan, centered around a similar approach to school choice, would dedicate $ 20 billion in federal funding to provide families with a stipend to send their child to a school of their choice, often a private school.3 For her part, DeVos has devoted her career to creating and expanding voucher programs across the country.4 Both Trump and DeVos assert that these programs improve educational opportunities for students in need, including students with disabilities.