Sentences with phrase «transfer to the private school of»

Establish in New Orleans in 2008, and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

Created in 2008 and expanded statewide in 2012, the Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students in failing public schools or students entering kindergarten for the first time to transfer to the private school of their choice.

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«Coming to HGSE from a private think tank and the World Bank, Felipe's unique professional background has informed his design of innovative interventions, including a conditional cash transfer program in Manizales, Colombia and a project studying incentives paid to private schools in Uganda.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

This means that the Milwaukee attainment analysis almost certainly underestimated the benefits of remaining in private schools throughout high school by diluting the private school group with students who transferred to public schools.

Washington — About 5 percent of the students currently attending public schools would be likely to transfer to private schools if a tuition tax credit of $ 250 were available, according to a Congressionally mandated study of private schools.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

The discussion often revolves around the question of participant effects — whether students are better off when they use a voucher to transfer to a private school.

The program was initially piloted in New Orleans in 2008; Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal and the state legislature expanded the LSP statewide in 2012, allowing thousands of public school students to transfer out of their residentially assigned schools and into private schools of their choosing.

The money allocated to privately managed charters and vouchers represents a transfer of critical public resources to the private sector, causing the public schools to suffer budget cuts and loss of staffing and services as the private sector grows, without providing better education or better outcomes for the students who transfer to the private - sector schools.

Yes, I'm a big believer in the benefits of empowering low - income families with educational choice, but I'm not interested in having disadvantaged boys and girls transfer from lousy district schools to lousy private schools.

The bill would require taxpayers to be informed about how much of their money is being transferred to private schools through the voucher program.

By proposing to serve a targeted group of students, neo-vouchers open the door for public dollars to be transferred to private schools with no federal mandates to serve children with disabilities and no accountability for their success (Müller & Ahearn, 2007).

It would dismantle public schools through massive cuts to teacher training, after - school programs in public schools, and transfers of public funds to private school vouchers.

The movement toward neo-vouchers — mechanisms of school privatization efforts, such as tuition tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, that transfer public education dollars to private schools — have had mixed results, at best, and have been empirically shown to harm targeted students, at worst.

He says Romney's education policy will only be revolutionary if suburban schools aren't able to opt out under the auspice of capacity concerns, leaving only choices in the private sector for students looking to transfer.

As for those who «left,» Achievement First, the New Haven Independent adds, «Of the 34 kids who withdrew, 11 transferred for reasons Amistad considered «acceptable,» such as moving out of state or to a competitive private schooOf the 34 kids who withdrew, 11 transferred for reasons Amistad considered «acceptable,» such as moving out of state or to a competitive private schooof state or to a competitive private school.

CAP said the budget «would dismantle public schools through massive cuts to teacher training, after - school programs in public schools, and transfers of public funds to private school vouchers.»

Similarly, the Florida school choice advocacy group RefinED contends that school vouchers, which allow parents to transfer students to private schools at taxpayer expense, make private schools part of the public school system.

Currently, the transfer amount is indexed to general and categorical aid increases to public schools in the same way per pupil payments to private voucher schools and independent charter school payments are adjusted — which accounts for the governor's proposed increase for private school tuition subsidies of $ 217 per pupil.

Requires the former public school or private school to perform a transfer of the pupil's permanent record or copy of it no later than 10 school days, as defined, following the date the request is received.

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If a student transfers into a Florida public high school from out of country, out of state, a private school or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Sschool from out of country, out of state, a private school or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Sschool or a home school, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High Sschool, the student's transcript is reviewed to determine if the student is required to take a Florida end - of - course (EOC) assessment in accordance with Rule 6A - 1.09941, F.A.C., State Uniform Transfer of Students in Middle Grades and High SchoolSchool.

A student shall show acceptable evidence of vaccination prior to entry, attendance, or transfer to a child - care facility or public or private elementary or secondary school, or institution of higher education.

Polling in Texas consistently shows that significant majorities of voters favor finance plans that include school choice alternatives that would allow parents to transfer their children out of under - performing schools to other public or private schools.

Release copies of all student records for students transferring from the private school to the school unit, upon the request of a school unit

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

As Wagner reports, Republicans, who took control of the state legislature in 2010 and the governorship in 2012, are intent on expanding education options in the state by providing some parents with school vouchers to transfer their children to private schools and by increasing the number of charter schools in the state.

The $ 500 a family credit is limited to families making less than $ 60,000 a year, but again, as a tax credit, this is basically a direct transfer of taxpayer money to a private or parochial school.

The State of Arizona gives the parents of a child with a disability who is transferring from an Arizona public school the opportunity to receive an Empowerment Scholarship Account («ESA») to help pay private school tuition for their child.

It allows grants of public funds to be transferred into private education savings accounts for Nevada school aged children to pay for their private schooling, tutoring, and other nonpublic educational services and expenses.

These incentives might include additional per - pupil funding for each transfer student, construction funds to make more space available, funds to recruit and employ on - site advocates and mentors to ensure the social comfort and the pedagogic progress of these students, and funds to underwrite their transportation by the same convenient means that wealthy people use to transport their children to private schools — not by circuitous and exhausting bus routes, but rather by point - to - point travel, typically in small vans, from one specific urban neighborhood to one specific school or district.

In the past decade, these takeovers have not only removed schools from local authorities, they are increasingly being used to facilitate the permanent transfer of the schools from public to private management, all while increasing segregation and financial instability.

Mr. Gledich came into a district that was losing enrollment as families took advantage of Colorado's broad school choice laws to transfer to other districts or move to charter and private schools.

Legislators had considered another small change in language that would have transferred oversight of the state's private school voucher program from the IDOE to the state board.

The Louisiana Scholarship Program allows low - income families with students enrolled in C, D or F - rated schools to transfer to the participating private school of their choice.

The goal of the effort appears to be to resurrect Steve Perry's attempt to take over two Hartford Schools and transfer them to a private company that he owns.

These transfers shall be allowed pursuant to the district school board policies in the case of transfer to a public school or pursuant to the private school policies in the case of transfer to a private school.

It would involve forcibly transferring ownership of all existing private schools to the school district in which they reside, and readjusting local tax schemes to capture the tuition parents currently pay (the nationwide average is $ 8,549 per year, which means a total of $ 47 billion is spent each year on opting out of the public education system).

NYC's Coalition for Educational Justice wins $ 23 million investment in culturally responsive education; Houston beats back ten charter conversations, Michigan lawsuit halts the transfer of public funds to private schools.

The possible operators of the schools that are transferred to the OSPP include: (1) individuals or groups operating an independent charter school; (2) the governing body of a nonsectarian private school that is participating in a private school choice (voucher) program; and (3) other persons not currently operating a school.

Students who are victims of bullying and violence would have the option of transferring to other public schools or receiving scholarships to attend private schools under a new program * championed by House Speaker Richard Corcoran.

Curry started all of her children in public school, but after she became dissatisfied with the education and treatment her children were receiving, she transferred them to private schools in Durham, and then to CFC Academy when they moved to Creedmoor.

The Obama administration has said that Louisiana's school voucher program, which allows children to transfer out of failing public schools into private schools on the public's dime, has hurt desegregation efforts in Louisiana.

But she also has called for either vouchers to private schools or transfer of Camden students to nearby school districts with excess capacity as a means of improving education.

As originally proposed to the Hartford Board of Education last week, the «lighthouse» school was targeted to be the SAND Elementary School and was part of a package that would have allowed Capital Preparatory Magnet School Principal Steve Perry to set up his own company and the Board would then have transferred control of both Capital Prep and SAND to that private eschool was targeted to be the SAND Elementary School and was part of a package that would have allowed Capital Preparatory Magnet School Principal Steve Perry to set up his own company and the Board would then have transferred control of both Capital Prep and SAND to that private eSchool and was part of a package that would have allowed Capital Preparatory Magnet School Principal Steve Perry to set up his own company and the Board would then have transferred control of both Capital Prep and SAND to that private eSchool Principal Steve Perry to set up his own company and the Board would then have transferred control of both Capital Prep and SAND to that private entity.

THANK YOU COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Concerns are growing fast as the County Commissioners Association published a spreadsheet (shown above) that TREE obtained via email, sent to Association members outlining a rough idea, county by county illustrating «[H] ow a k - 12 voucher program might impact county budgets, particularly if you compare revenue lost when a student transfers out of a school district and into a private school.

The transfer of students from private schools to charters has increased public - funding obligations by $ 1.8 billion, said analyst Adam B. Schaeffer of the libertarian Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom.

When Jory transfers to an all - boys private school and joins the drama club in an attempt to make new friends, he discovers the mysterious world of the backstage.