Take your pick: public school, private school, home school, charter schools, technical schools, college preps, ROTC academies, magnet programs, all-male, all-female, even online-only schools.
That proposal is probably the most complicated means any state has developed to try to even out public and private school playoff competition.
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In New York, school enrollments have been declining since 2001-02, according to the state Education Department, going from 3.3 million to about 3 million public and private school students now.
Coalition members include faith leaders, the chief of the Newtown police department, public and private school principals, counselors, health care professionals including a school nurse and emergency room doctor, high school students and several other community members.
McCain told the crowd that if he becomes president, he will make sure parents are allowed to pick their children's schools -- whether a better public school, a private school or a charter school.
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State high school associations nationwide are debating whether to split public and private schools in the playoffs, particularly in football, because of private-school dominance that the public schools say is unfair because they, unlike their private colleagues, can recruit, er, attract players from outside a geographical boundary.
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Each state had one public and one private school chosen to participate, but as the VOTES Project received more media attention, other schools contacted Shea to participate.
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Middle-class families whose children do not get into a magnet school are still likely to prefer the suburbs or a private school over their local public school.
But she noted it may be even more challenging for public school students considering a switch to private school, as counselors may not have the connections or relationships to secure an extension.
One way or another (public school or private), they will seek it out.
In addition, Amazon offers its SchoolRewards Program, in which 10% of purchases can be designated to a private or public school enrolled in the program.
Joseph Kelley, who lives in Washington, had been invited to explain the benefits of school choice, or vouchers, which had allowed him to take his four children out of a crime-ravaged public school and send them to the private Preparatory School of D.
But in a new survey, Public Agenda found that just 35% of public school parents still think private ones are more demanding and 34% think public schools are tougher.
Alice Anne Freund , a Washington consultant and former private school admissions director, recommends that parents with access to a great public school consider it first, and look at private schools only if it doesn't meet their family's needs.
The math is similar whether one chooses an expensive private school, or a more affordable public school.
Freston is contesting a federal law that says that a child has to attend a public school first before a parent can sue for private school tuition reimbursement.
The idea for Strive came from my experience transferring from a private to a public school for my junior year of high school.
Ivy league colleges discount only for need, but in 2003--04, 62% of public and 50% of private school grants were based on merit, up from 45% and 33% respectively ten years earlier.
Only 43% of the 1.66 million private- and public-school students who took the college-entrance exam posted scores showing they are prepared to do well in college, according to data released by the College Board, the nonprofit group that administers the SAT.
Second, in my opinion the answer depends on whether the student is currently attending a public school or an independent school (otherwise known as private schools or prep schools).
If a teacher in an elementary school, public or private, sends a child home with an assignment to watch Fox News, the teacher risks being hauled into the principal's office for exposing a child to a biased source.
This year, eighth-graders won't find out whether they won a coveted spot in a top public high school until two days after the March 13 deadline for private-school tuition deposits, which can cost thousands of dollars.
The private, but not the public, school provides an intense form of therapy known as applied behavior analysis.
And thus, the fights between public and private schools under the same high school association banner growing more intense.
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If a school were not doing the job, Mom could remove her child and place him in another school -- public, private or parochial.
Promise Neighborhoods, based on the Harlem Children's Zone in New York City, combines public and private funding and includes after-school programs and parenting workshops.
"You show me another district where at least two thirds, if not possibly more than that, of the total student population is private school as opposed to public school, " Schwartz said in an interview.
We tell you how to be a cut-rate Ted Turner by buying into a shared ranch ( Living Large on Less), how to trade off the cost of a house against the cost of private-school tuition ( Public Choice) and how to get more from your greens fees ( Golf A La Carte).
After declining during the 1970s and early 1980s as the last of the baby boomers worked their way through the educational system, total primary and secondary school enrollment in public and private schools in the United States grew steadily during the late 1980s and 1990s, reaching an all-time high of 52.7 million in 1998.
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