Sentences with phrase «who send their children to private schools»

I have friends who are political and economic conservatives, wealthy people who send their children to private schools in New England at a cost of $ 25,000 to $ 30,000 a year.

Very pleased for the sake of diversity that a parent who sends her children to private schools is in the race.

Cuomo is reviving a proposal nixed by the Legislature last year - a $ 150 million tax credit for parents who send their children to private schools.

He also emerged as a leading proponent of a federal tax credit for low - income families who send their children to private schools.

Corbyn says that the price should be paid by parents who send their children to private school - and Labour quotes an estimate from the Fabian Society that VAT on private school fees could raise about # 1.5 billion per year.

The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice recently released a study that seeks to better understand the decision - making processes of parents who send their children to private schools.

A solid majority of the public as a whole, and a plurality of every subgroup, support education tax credits for low - and moderate - income parents who send their children to private schools.

In their simplest form, legislated tuition tax credits would permit those people who send their children to private schools a credit on their income...

Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who sent their children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public school taxes and again by paying tuition for their children's private schools.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

We send our son to a local private school and agree with Wednesday's State Journal editorial, «Don't splurge on vouchers,» that people in middle to higher income brackets who send their children to private schools don't need vouchers.

The reason: many families who send their children to private schools cross district lines.

The film is stunning for yet another reason: Actor Matt Damon, who sends his children to private schools, narrates it.

Mr Corbyn said this should be funded by higher charges for parents who send their children to private school - and Labour quoted an estimate from the Fabian Society that VAT on private school fees could raise about # 1.5 bn per year.

Not exact matches

«Deeper learning has historically been the province of the advantaged — those who could afford to send their children to the best private schools and to live in the most desirable school districts,» Mehta wrote.

Marker cautions families who choose to send their children with special needs to private schools to make sure they communicate with the schools about their special education needs.

Even parents who are homeschooling children or have sent them to private schools are entitled to ancillary services courtesy of their public school district if it's been determined that the children have a learning disability or other disorder that requires intervention for them to function optimally in school.

(D.C. school officials would certainly like to know who those children are, since families making that kind of money typically send their kids to one of the private schools that proliferate here.

Unless you haven't noticed, parents who choose to send their children to private schools are already paying taxes for state school places for their children, taxes they don't get back for places they don't use.

While Tory politicians are more likely to send their children to private schools, Labour figures who have used them include Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the former lord chancellor, the left - wing MP Diane Abbott and Ruth Kelly, the former transport secretary, who sent her son to one because he has dyslexia.

The school board is predominately made up of Hasidic Jews who send their children to private Jewish schools, also known as yeshiva's.

She declined to disown fellow Labour modernisers who attacked private education, even while sending their children to fee - paying schools.

«If you also are outraged by a new chancellor without any experience in public education and who sent her own children to private school, here is an online petition you can sign and forward on,» wrote one parent on an education e-mail list.

Cuomo had wanted an education tax credit that would benefited donors who give up to $ 1 million to help send poor children to private schools.

The other public schools are of such poor quality that any parents who can afford to do so send their children to expensive private schools.

The credits cut taxes on businesses that donate to non-profit scholarship organizations, and those organizations help needy families who want to send their children to private schools.

Supporters who join the reform side can lose confidence, leave the fight, and exercise their interest in education in other ways — for example, by sending their children to private schools or supporting the improvement of individual schools, as opposed to the whole system.

It is still possible that adults who attended religious schools have more favorable attitudes toward Jews because of unobserved advantages but this seems unlikely given that the generally more advantaged families who send children to non-religious private schools do not appear to yield lower anti-Semitism.

Thus, the program does little or nothing for parents who wish to send their child to a private school but are of limited means.

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).

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.

Students must come from low - income families who, except for the Cristo Rey program, would not be able to send their child to an academically superior private school.

Meanwhile, advocates invoked the «hypocrisy» of voucher critics in Congress who were rich enough to send their own children to private schools but would deny that option to the city's poorer families.

Like traditional school vouchers, state funds are used to provide financial support to qualifying parents who want to send their children to private school.

Even those who remained in the city increasingly chose to send their children to private schools.

Parents who live in Pennsylvania's Southeast Delco district but send their children to private schools or to other districts will not receive the tuition reimbursements they expected.

The Nevada ESA program means families who could never before afford to send their child to private school now have the ability to do so.

While the racial, social, political, and economic consequences of poorly performing schools are innumerable and harsh, they won't be felt by Burris who earned $ 268,000 as a principal; or Ravitch who became a fierce public school advocate only after her children completed private school; or Valerie Strauss — another private school parent — who uses her Washington Post real estate to bolster all the drivel teachers» unions send her (without mentioning her connection to communication contracts with labor).

Williams was also concerned about the raising of income caps for the voucher program, as this gradually shifted funding toward families who were already sending their children to private schools.

Damon, who has proclaimed his love of public schools, was recently outed by Time magazine for choosing to send his own children to private school.

If that's the case, why spend money to advertise the Opportunity Scholarship program to families who already have the means to send their children to private schools?

The public school attendance requirement has been irksome to many parents who have long sent their children to private schools.

As someone who is working all the hours to send my children to private school and making sacrifices such as no holidays, no extras and working extra shifts and being very careful financially as they did not get into the most local «good» state school I would most certainly move my children back into the state system.

The West Virginia Supreme Court required a public school board to reimburse parents who complied with West Virginia's mandatory education statute by sending their children to a private, parochial school because no public high school existed in their district.

The voucher program works like this: Taxpayer subsidies go to lower - and middle - income parents who choose to send their children to private and religious schools.

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.

Atkinson made it clear that her frustration is not with the parents who want to send their students to a private school or to homeschool their children, but rather with the lack of transparency and accountability associated with vouchers.

The four incumbents who lost, combined with Tuesday's election of Empower Mississippi supporter Joel Bomgar to a House seat in Madison County, could clear the way for broader legislation supporting charter schools and state aid to parents who want to send their children to private schools...

Absent from the trip were teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public schools to send children to private, often religious, schools that don't have to meet state standards.

Parents who know early on that they'll send a child to private K — 12 school can begin saving in a Coverdell.