Vouchers: Proceed With Caution a regular column, Those in Power Over Us, in california Political Review. suse of taxpayer funded vouchers at private and parochial schools is touted http://www.bridges4kids.org/articles/7-02/CPR7-17-02.html
Extractions: Lead Poisoning Positive Behavior Support Community Schools Where to find help for a child in Michigan - click here Breaking News What's New? Help ... Text Menu Last Updated: Article of Interest - Court Cases Vouchers: Proceed with Caution The Supreme Courts Cleveland ruling, a stunning victory for public education reform, could loose a boa constrictor on private schools. M. David Stirling , California Political Review, July 17, 2002 M. David Stirling, vice president of Pacific Legal Foundation www.pacificlegal.org writes a regular column, Those in Power Over Us, in California Political Review. The recent Supreme Court decision holding constitutional Clevelands use of taxpayer- funded vouchers at private and parochial schools is touted in glowing terms by most conservative commentators. The most important civil-rights case in almost 50 years, declares one. One of the most significant political decisions ever made by the Court, comments another, adding that the decision will do more to rescue a deteriorating educational system than any other act to come from Washington, D.C., in 25 years. And I agree with both assessments. Indeed, recognizing the forces in conflict within the public education arena, I am heartened that vouchers, as a concept, were preserved by the High Court as a viable alternative in the ongoing public education debate.
SAVING OUR SCHOOLS BY CHOICE state. By contrast, the average tuition at private and parochial schoolsin california is $2,600 per year. How is this possible? http://www.antiwar.com/berkman/edchoice.html
Extractions: SAVING OUR SCHOOLS BY CHOICE by Gene Berkman Public education is in real trouble in California. Everyone agrees - parents, teachers, public officials - that there are massive problems with the public schools. Students are graduating from high school without the necessary skills to get well-paying jobs. A significant number of high school graduates have trouble with reading and writing. Recent nation-wide tests of academic skills found California students tied with Louisiana students for last place! More than half the students int he California State University system are taking remedial classes in reading or math! The public schools have become a political football. Religious activists seek to have "creationism" taught in the science classes, while too many of our social science teachers promote obsolete socialist doctrines. Neutral scholarship is the unlamented victim. Among the ideas currently being proposed to improve American education, school choice stands out as particularly innovative and thoroughgoing. Implementation of school choice proposals would change the relationship of students and their parents to the education system. Supporters of school choice will seek to qualify an educational voucher proposal for the California ballot in 1996. If this proposal is adopted, parents would become customers of the schools they choose. The schools would have to attract students by offering a quality education; no longer would the compulsory attendance laws turn students into a captive audience. In addition to being forced by competition to improve the quality of educational services, schools would also have to respond to the different needs of different individuals.
Education -- PRIVATE HIGH SCHOOLS education in the United States at private and parochial schools. Location of schools. Mobile,Alabama Ø Phoenix, Arizona Ø Bakersfield, california Ø Donelson http://www.asiamerica.com/private_high_schools.html
Extractions: (FROM $ 9,000 per year including tuition, room, board and insurance) Dear Asian high school parents: AACE, founded in 1983, has sent more than 4,000 Asian high school students on one-year exchange programs to public and private high schools in the United States, and is now accepting applicants of all nationalities who have exemplary academic records and a strong command of English to join our private school programs. Successful applicants enter the program in January or August and will typically spend at least two or three years on the program and will live with faculty and school host families while preparing to enter the nation's most competitive universities. The annual cost per student, including tuition, room and full board, remains substantially less than if the student were to attend one of the numerous international schools here in Asia. AACE works closely with carefully selected private high schools which have a reputation for academic excellence while meeting the needs of the individual student. Each of our private high schools meets these goals while remaining distinctly unique. Some schools offer English as a Second Language while others require international students to have a sufficient level of English proficiency upon enrolling. There are schools for students with special talents and needs, single-gender and co-educational schools. Overall we have designed a private high school program which is flexible and diverse.
California Wing - Aerospace Education Awards educators. This award is open to classroom teachers kindergarten throughtwelfth grade at public, private or parochial schools. It http://cawg.cap.gov/html/AE/awards.htm
Extractions: Aerospace Education Awards Civil Air Patrol recognizes outstanding achievement on the part of its members, teachers, organizations and units. Brief summaries of these awards are presented below. The A. Scott Crossfield Aerospace Education Award This recognition program is for senior members who have earned the Master Rating in the Aerospace Education Officer 215 Specialty Track . Nominated by unit commander on . For more information, refer to CAPR 280-2 The Aerospace Education Excellence Award Program for Units This award is presented to units that participate in an activity-based voluntary aerospace education program. The unit AEO and unit commander enroll in the program and sign a contract to have six aerospace activities January through June (one each month). Reports are submitted each month to National Headquarters. Units completing the requirements are presented with a commemorative plaque. Far more important than the plaque are the educational materials that are provided at no cost as part of this program, and the benefits to the unit by participating in this program. Conducting these activities foster group interaction and socialization, and can generate great excitement for aerospace education within the unit.
Long & Foster Southern Maryland Real Estate - Homepage there are several nonpublic and parochial schools in St. For further informationcontact the schools below Office 16032 Three Notch Road california, MD 20619 http://www.southernmaryland-homes.com/schools.asp
Extractions: the " Southern Maryland Education " page located on Southern Maryland Online T he St. Mary's County Public Schools are governed by an elected Board of Education. In the public school system, there are currently 16 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, 3 high schools, special education schools, and 1 vocational-technical school. Kindergarten is mandatory for all 5-year olds on a half-day basis. In addition, there is a half-day, 4-year old program for students in selected schools. For test score and other public school information, you may write to:
California Science Project (CSP) Educational News The groundbreaking decision condones the use of public money for tuitionat parochial schools, and does so without imposing any restrictions. http://csmp.ucop.edu/csp/news/educational_news.php?format=detail&newsnID=307
Search Sessions Paper Discussion PARTICIPANT(S) Issues with Evaluating parochial schools Tim Green,california State Univeristy Fullerton; AY Fred Rameriz, california State http://edtech.connect.msu.edu/searchaera2002/searchsessions.asp?sessID=1692
ARL: Voters Say No To School Vouchers Tuition reimbursement for parochial schools was rejected by Nebraska voters in 1970.The provision of textbooks was rejected by california voters in 1982 but http://www.arlinc.org/about/article_voterssayno.html
Extractions: Home About ARL Articles >> School Vouchers by Albert Menendez and Edd Doerr Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules in the Cleveland school voucher case this year, the voucher issue will continue to play a role in the political process. Just about every state legislature and Congress could see battles over proposals to drain the public treasury to support nonpublic schools under the guise of parental choice. And hard-pressed public schools will be caught in the crossfire as they try to maintain adequate levels of funding to educate 90% of this countrys children. N THE 2000 ELECTIONS voters in two large and important states, California and Michigan, overwhelmingly rejected voucher schemes in statewide referenda. These voters handed advocates of public aid to private and parochial schools their 23rd and 24th defeats in 25 elections held in 14 states since 1966. The California vote was 71% to 29% against Proposition 38, an elaborate voucher proposal that would have cost at least $2.4 billion and would have required the state to give a $4,000 annual voucher to any parent, rich or poor, to send a child to a private school. No accountability for the expenditures and carte blanche for private school religious and gender discrimination were parts of the plan. Californians of every demographic group and regional location voted against the plan, including 66% of Catholic voters. Even rural, white interior California counties that voted heavily for George W. Bush for president opposed the initiative.
People For The American Way The Catholic Church, whose system of parochial schools provides the great majorityof private out against vouchers by margins of 69% 31% in california and 64 http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=1511
Kern Schools Federal Credit Union Membership (students); Sangera Pontiac, Delano; schools PublicPrivate-parochial schoolsin Kern County, california schools Employees Association in Kern County http://www.ksfcu.com/membership.htm
Extractions: By their nature, credit unions are not open to the general public. You must qualify for membership by being part of a defined group or what is referred to as a " sponsoring organization ". The original core group of Kern Schools Federal Credit Union members were teachers and employees of the school system. Over the years family members of these groups became eligible to join and later employees and family members of other associations and employee groups were added. While the core group of members continues to be related to the original membership group of school employees, the other sponsoring groups have made a significant contribution to the success of KSFCU. You are eligible for membership in Kern Schools Federal Credit Union if you are an employee/member of one of our sponsors or related to someone who is an employee/member of a sponsor, and reside in Kern County which is located in California. All you need to do is open a Share (savings) Account and retain the minimum balance required. Your family members are also eligible to join the Credit Union and receive all the benefits of membership. Sponsors
American Newspapers Put PC Before Profit While nearly three in 10 Latino students in californias public schools drop outof school, more than 97 percent of the states parochial school students http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=4609
LP Of California 2000 Platform - EDUCATION of government, and call for the privatization of public education in california. F.An end to licensing and regulation of private and parochial schools. http://www.ca.lp.org/platform/edu.html
Extractions: Complete Platform Single HTML File Plain Text PDF File Other Platforms Platform History National Platform We reject the idea that the financing and control of education is a proper function of government, and call for the privatization of public education in California. Therefore, we advocate the following: A. An end to compulsory busing. B. An end to compulsory school attendance. C. An end to interference with home schooling, in particular an end to the policy in some counties of not allowing home schooling parents to file private school affidavits, and an end to the effort by local truant officers and social workers to control who can teach and what they can teach. D. Repeal of the Proposition 98 funding guarantee for K-14 public education. E. Unlimited tax credit, equal to the amount of the assistance, for any individual or business sponsoring a person in an educational institution. F. An end to licensing and regulation of private and parochial schools. G. Allowing students to attend any school regardless of district boundaries.
California, Greater Cincinnati - GoCincinnati TOP california is in the Cincinnati Public School System. Children attendnearby Mt. Guardian Angel and McNicholas are parochial schools nearby. http://homefinder.cincinnati.com/communities/east/california.html
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AFT: AFT On The Issues: Press Release On PACE Study report 32,000 open seats statewide, according to the california Catholic Conference fromlowincome families move into smaller private and parochial schools. http://www.aft.org/issues/PACE_study.html
Extractions: AFT Home AFT On The Issues AFT Africa-Aids Campaign Mandatory Overtime for Nurses ... Whistleblower Protections Executive Summary from Policy Analysis for California Education The following executive summary was issued by PACE on Sept. 20. It is reprinted here with permission. SCHOOL VOUCHERS OFFER HOPE TO POOR FAMILIES, $3 BILLION IN 'TAX RELIEF FOR THE WELL-OFF' While school vouchers promise urban families a way to escape mediocre public schools, California's Proposition 38 would provide a $3 billion bonus to affluent parents whose children already attend private school, according to a study released today [Sept. 20] by scholars at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Voters will decide the fate of Prop. 38, authored by Silicon Valley entrepreneur Tim Draper, on November 7. If approved, any California parent could obtain a voucher worth at least $4,000, then move their child from a public to a private or religious school. The researchers dissected the many provisions of Prop. 38 and forecast its downstream implications for taxpayers, children, and schools. They conclude that no one really knows how many families would actually use the new vouchers, covering less than two-thirds the yearly cost of educating a child, and achievement effects could be small, given the limit efficacy of small-scale voucher experiments underway in a half-dozen cities around the nation. "The devil with small voucher programs has always been in the detailshow they are designed and what kinds of families they best serve," according to Luis Huerta a coauthor of the new report. "And Prop. 38 is bedeviled with many unknowns."
AFT: Where We Stand: August 22, 1993 taxpayers' money to send K12 students to private and parochial schools. Supportersof this voucher scheme claim it's the medicine california education needs http://www.aft.org/stand/previous/1993/082293.html
Extractions: August 22, 1993 On November 3, Californians will vote on an amendment to the state constitution that would authorize using taxpayers' money to send K-12 students to private and parochial schools. Supporters of this voucher scheme claim it's the medicine California education needs and that it would, among other things, help save the public schools. But it is more likely to be the coup de grace. The fiscal crisis that California faces has already led to a $2.6 billion cut in education funding, causing problems and hardships in California schoolsfor example, Los Angeles teachers recently took a 10 percent pay cut. If the voucher scheme passes, public schools would suffer additional big hits. Here's how the law would work. Each of the 550,000 students already in private schools would be eligible for a voucher worth half the average per-pupil expenditure for a public school student, which is now $5,200. This $2,600 per private school student would come out of the funding now allocated for public education. But that's not all. The law also says that the public education budget must be reduced by another $2,600 for every student already in private school who redeems a voucher; that's called "savings." Let's say only 500,000 private school kids redeem vouchers. At $5,200 per private school student, this means that before a single student transferred out of a public school, public schools would lose $2.6 billion, or 10 percent of the current state education budget.
ACLU - Civil Liberties News ground for students who were denied admittance to parochial schools, Strossen explained TheACLU of Southern california announced today its intervention in the http://archive.aclu.org/news/30aprarc.html
Extractions: ACLU CALLS PA SCHOOL VOUCHER PLAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL If Pennsylvania chooses to adopt its governor's school voucher proposal, the ACLU promises "vigorous opposition" to it, ACLU President Nadine Strossen said in a recent speech given at Penn State University's Altoona Campus. School voucher programs are a severe violation of the separation of church and state, Strossen said, because they use state funding to illegally support parochial schools. Last year, Governor Tom Ridge introduced his so-called "school choice" proposal, allowing parents to decide whether or not to send their children to public or parochial schools. With the help of a voucher, a parent would be able to use state money to defray some of the costs of a private, parochial school. Such funding constitutes government support of religious institutions, reported the Altoona Mirror shortly after Strossen's speech. School voucher programs are unconstitutional and will be struck down in the courts if enacted, the paper said.
Missions Of Spanish Era Had Wide Influence by the 320 church parishes, a Catholic population of 285,000, and 68 parochial schools.Due to the growth of the Catholic church in california, the diocese of http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist5/missions.html
Extractions: Editor, Catholic Monitor The history of the Catholic Church in California of chief interest to Americans is that of Alta California as distinguished from Lower California. The history of Christianity in our own California began with the founding of the first mission at San Diego on July 16, 1769. The founder of this mission, as of many others in this state, was Father Junipero Serra, a Majorcan and superior of the Franciscan Fathers. He and his Franciscan brethren were sent by the Spanish government not merely to serve as chaplains to the Spanish expeditionary forces, but also to preach Christianity to the natives. The problem before Father Serra was not merely the study of many distinctly different tribal languages and the teaching of the Gospel in those languages, but the necessity of training the most degraded of all American Indians to work consistently and form centers of population where the missioners could reach them. ORGANIZED CENTERS He therefore organized a series of centers in good agricultural lands, around which he gathered the reluctant and lazy savages. At these centers the buildings that are known to us as the missions were built. The original missions were not only churches, but also a group of buildings serving for workshops, granaries and dwellings.
Extractions: Quality housing, good weather, outstanding schools, and reasonable access to San Francisco are among the factors which attract people to settle in the Danville area. Located in the northern portion of the San Ramon Valley, the Danville Area includes the unincorporated communities of Alamo, Diablo and Blackhawk, as well as the Town of Danville. A number of moderate to expensive housing developments have evolved in the communities of Danville and neighboring San Ramon. Alamo and Diablo feature higher priced homes in a more rural setting. Blackhawk is a development of custom homes in a country club setting which features golf, tennis, swimming, and shopping. The real estate market is characterized by both growth and stability. The area has an increasingly diverse employment base in businesses such as transportation, communication and finance. There is strong emphasis on quality education in the area. Public schools rank among the best in the state. There are also excellent private and parochial schools. In the Danville area, residents have access to BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), a public transit system that links many towns and communities within the metropolitan areas of Oakland and San Francisco. Additional public transportation and a freeway system traverse the county.
Press Release May 16, 2000 Not only are private school teachers excludedmore than 40,000 of them in the4,200 private and/or parochial schools in california that are attended by http://www.cacatholic.org/h/pr/pr00522-51757.html
Extractions: Dr. Ron Reynolds, President of the California Association of Private School Organizations (CAPSO) and head of the Hebrew Day Schools of Los Angeles, criticized Governor Davis' proposal as a "one-of-a-kind idea that probably will do nothing to actually better the lives of children. The governor should stress the competence of the professionals, not the competition between schools or systems." Mr. Teegarden went on to point out that 75 years ago, the U. S. Supreme Court unanimously decided in Pierce that parents had the absolute right to select the venue for educating their children. Governor Davis' decision would seriously undermine that American freedom by creating an unfair advantage for teachers in government institutions. "Governor Davis, right intentions, bad idea," he said.
Commentary - Spring 2000 services are being denied to disabled students in private and parochial schools. impactedby this interpretation of IDEA the california Catholic Conference has http://www.cacatholic.org/nl/sp00/sp00education.html
Extractions: Catholic Schools: educate 5.5 percent of the total number of children of school age in California. enroll 272,000 children in their K-12 curriculum. number 595 elementary schools and 112 secondary schools throughout the 12 dioceses of California. are the largest group of non-government schools serving the citizens of California. employ 15,400 individuals as teachers and/or administrators. Catholic Schools, Special Education and the I.D.E.A. Following the enactment of the most recent version of I.D.E.A., a federal program of assistance to students with disabilities, services are being denied to disabled students in private and parochial schools. State administrators have interpreted the language in the new federal guidelines for the I.D.E.A. to justify their decision. Because several thousand Catholic school children have been impacted by this interpretation of I.D.E.A. the California Catholic Conference has become involved and is addressing this issue on three fronts. First, because parents need to understand their rights under the law, the CCC is educating Catholic school officials and Catholic school parents in that regard.
