Sentences with phrase «whether public or private schools»

Coverdell ESA funds can be spent on K - 12 or higher education, whether public or private schools.

Not exact matches

Vouchers — sometimes called public scholarships — would offer parents an «educational check» that could be cashed at any eligible school, whether public or private.

But this is a far cry indeed from the public controversies that our current epidemic of so - called realist atheism has given rise to, such as whether it is permissible to pray or celebrate Christmas in schools and other public institutions, or to grant government support of one kind or another to private religious education.

Whether your school is public, private or independent, you must participate in the NSLP to be eligible to receive a salad bar from Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools.

It's amazing the number of things you never have to consider before becoming a parent — breastfeed or formula feed; cloth diapers or disposables; vaccinations; when to start solids; organic vs. conventional foods; public school, private school or homeschool; and, of course, if you are having a boy — whether or not to circumcise.

He and I have discussed privately in emails how hard it can be for any school food provider, whether a private catering service like Choicelunch or public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agschool food provider, whether a private catering service like Choicelunch or public schools participating in the National School Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agSchool Lunch Program, to serve many masters, i.e., parents and administrators with countless — and often competing — agendas.

Consider whether you child would be well - served if able to participate in extracurricular activities with public or private high school agemates.

Whether you're thinking about enrolling your child in a traditional public or private school, a DoDEA school or you're currently homeschooling your child (or considering the possibility), there are many resources available to help you make informed decisions about your child's education.

Whether they're in public school, private school, or home school, lots of students are back in class.

Whether it's next year or five years from now, will we enroll the older child (ren) in a public or private school?

Gifted children need a special environment, as does any special needs child, and it's important for parents to understand what to look for in a school, whether it's private or public.

(Regardless of whether your child goes to a private or public school, public schools must, under law, provide these evaluations for a child when requested.)

Thus, most schools - whether public or private - can not refuse to accept a child whose food allergies qualify as a «disability» solely because of the child's food allergies.

Whether a school is public or private really doesn't matter.

«As mayor, I will have no higher priority than ensuring kids in our city can go to a good school in their neighborhood, whether public, private, parochial or religious,» Massey said.

«In my view, if you want to go to a private school, whether you're wealthy and you want your child to go to a private school or you are Catholic and want your child to go to a Catholic school or you are Jewish and you want your child to go to a Jewish school, that should not be paid for by public funds,» she said.

Recounting Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's recent speech on educational policy, he noted that it focused on providing vouchers for children nationwide to attend whatever type of school they choose, whether public or private.

Public school boards struggle over whether instruction should be didactic or discovery - based, and schools of both stripes compose the private school market.

Our analysis of evidence from the BLS National Compensation Survey and the NASRA Public Fund Survey shows that the employer contribution rates for public school teachers are a larger percentage of earnings than for private - sector professionals and managers, whether or not we take account of teacher coverage under Social SecPublic Fund Survey shows that the employer contribution rates for public school teachers are a larger percentage of earnings than for private - sector professionals and managers, whether or not we take account of teacher coverage under Social Secpublic school teachers are a larger percentage of earnings than for private - sector professionals and managers, whether or not we take account of teacher coverage under Social Security.

Lawmakers considering portability or other federal voucher programs must understand that the concept of federal dollars going into a «backpack of cash» that follows eligible students to the schools of their choice, whether public or private, is only part of the story.

Members of both groups attended all three types of schools — private, public charter, and traditional public — in year 3 of the voucher experiment, although the proportions that attended each type differed markedly based on whether or not they won the scholarship lottery (see Figure 2).

Whether this pattern is indicative of general receptiveness on the part of these districts toward alternatives to public schools or a long - standing dissatisfaction with traditional public schools, it certainly suggests that private schools do not serve as a hindrance to the start - up of public charter schools.

«There is nothing extra about the extracurriculum whether schools are rich or poor, public or private, large or small,» the authors write.

The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the opportunity to switch to private schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better public schools (through public school choice).

They also have the right to pursue legal action if they and the district can not agree on what services their child will receive and whether the public school or a private provider will deliver those services.

We take a different approach: What might our communities» schools — whether public, private or otherwise — learn from one another?

«I actually don't think the reasons schools work have anything to do with whether they're a charter public, a district public, a private, or a parochial school,» he says.

I also narrate the stories of a few urban and rural teenagers to provide context; China is not a monolith, and educational experiences can vary depending on whether a school is, say, public or private, or urban or rural.

For the past two years, PDK has asked whether respondents «favor or oppose allowing students and parents to choose a private school to attend at public expense.»

To solve this problem, we used as an instrumental variable whether or not a student was offered a voucher to predict the probability that she attended a private school; with these predicted values, we can provide an unbiased estimate of the actual impact of switching from a public - to a private - school.

The existence of more private schools gives parents who want to raise their children's achievement the opportunity to choose whether to send them to a particular private school or to a public school.

Specifically, we look to see whether test scores showed greater improvement in the wake of the new policy for students attending public schools with more (or more varied) nearby private options that suddenly became more affordable for low - income students than did scores for students attending schools with fewer (or less varied) potential competitors.

To measure the effect on children's test scores of switching to a private school, we estimate a statistical model that takes into account whether a child attended a public or a private school, as well as baseline reading and math test scores.

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.

We also confirm that we obtain similar results when we control for student characteristics measured at or before the PSAT / NMSQT, including sex, parental education, family income level, whether a student took the PSAT / NMSQT in 10th grade and his or her previous score, indicators for ethnic background (for example, Mexican, Cuban), and controls for the type of high school attended, including affiliation (public or private), urbanicity (that is, city, suburban, rural), size, and concentration of Hispanic students.

As a result, it remains unclear whether these studies have unearthed actual differences between public and private schools or simply differences in the kinds of students and families attending them.

In India, for example, government - funded schools (whether public or private) tend to teach in the local language despite widespread parental preference for instruction to be given in English.

Competition, whether it comes from vouchers, independent private schools, public charter schools, or the breaking up of oversize districts, is the tonic to which Hoxby's work most clearly points.

We also were able to obtain from PISA student reports of their background characteristics and administrator reports on the characteristics of each student's school, including such things as school resources and whether the school was public or private.

Even after adjusting for observed demographic differences, researchers always wondered whether unobserved differences that were not being accounted for, such as parental motivation or the intellectual richness of home life, played a larger role than the schools themselves in causing differences in academic performance between public and private schools.

They also used PISA data on students» background and the characteristics of each student's school, including resource levels and whether the school is public or private.

Since students in Cleveland could choose to attend a private school, a public magnet school, or a charter school, the Court reasoned that the existence of magnet and charter schools should be considered in assessing whether students have a genuine choice among secular and religious schools.

First, we assess whether the private schools attended by students using state - funded vouchers offer more or less racially segregated environments than those available to students who remain in public schools.

The question is whether simply providing vouchers to students, who can use them to attend better public schools or private schools, is sufficient to satisfy the legislature's obligation to provide a high - quality education to all students.

On the contrary, the model of self - governing schools — whether private or public — with significant control over their own operations, staffing, curricula, and budgets is far more likely to serve the ends of performance - based reform.

[5] Moms and dads — whether in public schools, in private schools, or in homeschools — are frustrated.

Others say parents should be able to direct some public funds to any school their child attends, whether public, private, or religious.

Trump said his proposed block grant program would come from redirecting existing federal funds, and he would leave it up to states to decide whether the dollars would follow children to public, private, charter or magnet schools.

But this battle against Common Core does not just concern homeschoolers — all families, no matter whether their children attend a public school, a private school, or a home school, must work together in this struggle against the standardization of education.