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- Save for College and for Yourself
- The Watts have ambitious savings goals: private school, college, and, of course, retirement. Here are the steps they need to take to achieve those dreams. Wild spenders? Hardly. Will packs his lunch every day, they don’t even own a TV, and “we never cut our son’s hair,” Reena...
- Articles 2009-10-21
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- National School Boards Association Statement on Senate Passage of Private School Vouchers
- WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Joan Schmidt, president of the National School Boards Association, on the Senate's passage of a private school voucher amendment as part of the budget reconciliation bill: WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by...
- Research articles 2005-11-03
- Collins College Named School of the Year by the Arizona Private School Association
- TEMPE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Private School Association APSA awarded Collins College four Best Practice Awards, including School of the Year at its annual conference. Collins College also received awards for Best Teacher, Best Student Financial Services and Best Admissions Practices. This was the second time Collins was awarded School...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- As Presidential Debate Highlights Need for Competition in U.S. Public Education, First-Ever Multi-National Study Shows Competition from Private Schools Improves Achievement for Both Public and Private School Students
- Countries with Higher Private School Enrollment Produce Higher Scores on the PISA International Test STANFORD, Calif. -- With both presidential candidates highlighting the critical need for competition in U.S. public education in their final national debate, a new multi-national study released today by Education Next shows that competition from...
- Research articles 2008-10-16
- New Private School to Open in Bangkok, Thailand.
- By Nondhanada Intarakomalyasut, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--As international schools for early childhood have become increasingly popular in Thailand, John Paul College, an Australian private school, will open in Bangkok. The school's first overseas branch will be...
- Research articles 2002-06-10
- Mid-Continent Packaging Supplying SDC-Based BioSilver Disinfectant to Private School Bus Companies in New York City Area
- BioSilver Meets Specifications of EPA and CDC for H1N1 Disinfection SAN DIEGO -- PURE Bioscience (NASDAQ: PURE), creators of the patented silver dihydrogen citrate SDC...
- Research articles 2009-05-07
- A public kind of private school: Columbia University has launched a private school that also enrolls neighborhood kids by lottery. It's every teacher's dream school. Educators are watching to see if it works.
- Columbia University in New York City opened the doors last fall to a new elementary school that is in many ways a hybrid between the worlds of private and public education. Like only a few public schools, The School at Columbia has tremendous resources,...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- Poll Finds D.C. Voters Strongly Oppose Vouchers; 80 Percent Also Expect Private Voucher Schools to be Held Publicly Accountable
- ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 10 /U.S. Newswire/ -- More than three- fourths of voters in the District of Columbia say they oppose private school vouchers, and 80 percent say they would expect any private school that accepts taxpayer-funded vouchers to be held publicly accountable, according to a new National School Boards...
- Research articles 2002-12-10
- Baptist school fights rejection of gays policy
- DENVER -- A private Baptist school will appeal a decision by Denver-area officials to reject its voucher program application because the school would expel homosexuals. Rodolfo Gomez, principal of Silver State Baptist School in Lakewood, said the separate rulings this month by Denver Public Schools and Jefferson County...
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- High-school students test auction software: package-bidding software to be used in 700 MHz auction.
- WASHINGTON--The FCC's Wireless Telecommunications Bureau hired 21 high school students from a local private school to play with its new bidding software to see if they could break it. They didn't break the software, which also had been tested by gr WASHINGTON--The FCC's Wireless...
- Research articles 2001-03-05
- Phoenix-Based Private-School Operator Names New CEO, Plans to Change Focus.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
- May 12--The Tesseract Group, a Phoenix private and charter school operator, named a new chief executive officer Thursday and said it planned to shift its focus to the Internet for marketing, purchasing supplies and, ultimately, teaching. May 12--The Tesseract Group, a Phoenix private and...
- Research articles 2000-05-12
- School Choice Helps Public Schools.(Review)
- Nina Shokraii Rees, "Public School Benefits of Private School Vouchers," in Policy Review (January/February 1999), Heritage Foundation, 214 Massachusetts Avenue N.E., Washington, D. C. 20002. Recent research has demonstrated that voucher programs clearly improve student achievement among students who transfer to private schools....
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- School voucher plan for D.C. gaining momentum in Congress
- WASHINGTON -- Congress took a step Friday toward turning the nation's capital city into the home of the first federally supported school voucher plan, an idea with implications across the country. The House narrowly endorsed private-school vouchers for poor District of Columbia students Friday, a plan likely to...
- Research articles 2003-09-06
- How members of Congress practice private school choice
- [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MANY MEMBERS of Congress value the opportunity to choose a safe and effective school for their own children, yet a number of these same members consistently oppose school choice legislation that would give the same opportunity to other families. For example, Senators Edward Kennedy (D.-Mass.) and Hillary...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Education savings accounts pass Senate; bill stirs debate over federal education role.(bill ignores financing for public school repair and construction while supplying tax breaks for parochial and private school expenses)(includes related information on b
- The Senate narrowly passed a controversial bill sponsored by Sens. Paul Coverdell (R-Ga.) and Robert Torricelli (D-N.J.) to provide federal tax breaks for private and parochial elementary and secondary school expenses and tuition after rejecting proposals by the White House to provide more than $22 billion...
- Research articles 1998-05-11
- Opponents Send Their Kids to Private Schools - Heritage Foundation survey shows legislators against school choice for underprivileged send their children to private schools - Brief Article - Statistical Data Included
- A substantial number of Federal lawmakers who have sent or are sending their children to private school consistently vote against giving the same right to families with lesser means, a Heritage Foundation survey finds. According to senior policy analyst Nina Shokraii Rees and researcher Jennifer Garrett, Congressmen who serve on...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- Should Congress give vouchers to D.C. school kids?
- Cleveland, Ohio, has long rivaled Washington, D.C., in running some of the worst public schools in America. By 1995, it got so bad an activist federal judge essentially fired the Cleveland school district and placed the city's public schools under direct control of the state government, which, in turn, enacted...
- Research articles 2002-07-22
- IDEA in Private Schools: ED Provides Guidance on Services.(Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; United States Department of Education)(Brief Article)
- The U.S. Department of Education's ED Office of Special Education Programs OSEP has prepared "Questions and Answers on Obligations of Public Agencies in Serving Children with Disabilities Placed by Their Parents at Private Schools." Developed in response to requests for more information about school district's ...
- Research articles 2000-07-05
- Senate education bill hung up over vouchers. (debate over whether federal funds should be used to help parents who send their children to private schools) (Brief Article)
- The Senate opened the 1992 session by taking up a controversial $850 million comprehensive education reform package last week. Much of the debate has focused on the most contentious issue--the use of federal funds to help parents who want to send their children to private school....
- Research articles 1992-01-27
- Bure Equity AB acquires two school operators in Sweden
- NORDIC BUSINESS REPORT-10 October 2006-Bure Equity AB acquires two school operators in SwedenC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com The Swedish private equity investor Bure Equity AB said on Tuesday (10 October) that it has agreed to acquire private school operators GTU IT Gymnasier AB and Framtidsgymnasiet i Goteborg AB. ...
- Research articles 2006-10-10
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