Sentences with phrase «when sending their children to private schools»

Pence won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap, which was previously $ 4,800, on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

Pence has won big in his push to expand the state's voucher program, successfully lifting the cap (previously $ 4,800) on the amount of money families can receive when sending their children to private schools.

Not exact matches

I ask about her decision to claim an iPhone on expenses, which we discovered when more members» allowances were released this summer, or the regurgitated palaver over her decision to send her child to private school.

It is manifest in the residential choices made by families... [and] when families, sometimes at great financial sacrifice, decide to send their children to private schools....

Party leaders have failed to respond adequately to the question of why poor minority parents should be required to send their children to failing public schools when luminaries like Bill Clinton, Al Gore, and Ted Kennedy saw fit to send their own children to private schools.

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

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.

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.

• When not given a neutral option, 73 % of parents supported «a tax credit for individual and corporate donations that pay for scholarships to help low - income parents send their children to private schools» compared with 27 % opposed.

When parents send their children somewhere other than the local public school, it's not because they believe that the private market is the best way to deliver education or that their child will benefit from a longer bus ride.

Critics also conveniently forget about all the money public schools receive for services they do not provide when parents, who pay property taxes for public education, send their children to private schools.

When the chips are down — in other words, when it comes to their own children — public school teachers are twice as likely as other parents to send their kids to private schoWhen the chips are down — in other words, when it comes to their own children — public school teachers are twice as likely as other parents to send their kids to private schowhen it comes to their own children — public school teachers are twice as likely as other parents to send their kids to private schools.

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.

But when its contract was approaching expiration a few years ago, the town decided to give local parents the option of sending their children to private schools as well, and the town would cover tuition up to the amount that it was spending per pupil at the neighboring district school (about $ 12,000).

Superior Court Judge Robert H. Hobgood agreed with the complainants, declaring the program unconstitutional in 2014 and saying from the bench that «the General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything.»

«The General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything,» he wrote.

Even when they do live in urban districts, many of them either use school choice clauses in collective bargaining agreements to get first dibs on schools that don't have Black or Latino children in them, or just send their kids to private schools to avoid the failure mills they themselves work in.

«The General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything,» Hobgood said.

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.

When the person who wants to be mayor, and who would appoint the members of the Hartford Board of Education, decides to enroll his child or children in a prestigious private school, rather than the city's public schools, it sends out a powerful message about privilege and entitlement.

, saying «the General Assembly fails the children of North Carolina when they are sent with public taxpayer money to private schools that have no legal obligation to teach them anything.»

In Finland, the government provides funding for basic education at all levels, and instruction is free of charge.3 In Sweden, schooling is «free,» and parents are able to choose their children's schools; funding even follows the student when they change schools.4 In Portugal, the Ministry of Education finances the public sector in its entirety, and the state subsidizes each student in private schools.5 In Germany, the Netherlands, England, Northern Ireland, and Sweden, «public funding is provided so that families can choose to send their children to schools with a religious character.»

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country, including New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary.

This reading was meant to raise scholarship money for a local school — a private school — even though White, when he moved to Maine from Manhattan, sent his child to the local public school.