Category: General News
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Scholarships Add Competition to Education
Monday, April 26, 1999 in Dallas Morning-News By Roger Staubach Last week, 900 low-income Dallas children were given a shot at success that they may never have otherwise had. They were among the 40,000 kindergarteners through ninth-graders nationally to receive a partial, four-year scholarship from the Children’s Scholarship Fund to use at the school of…
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Tuition Aid: School Doors Open to Poor
Sunday, April 25, 1999 in Atlanta Journal-Constitution By Doug Cumming It was like winning one of those TV sweepstakes. Zenovia Andrews, 31, a single mother, and her son, Donovan, a fourth-grader at Mary Lin Elementary School in Atlanta, were flown to New York last week to be part of a joyous celebrity-filled kickoff for a…
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Public School Students Win Education Vouchers
Thursday, April 22, 1999 in Daily News (NY) By OWEN MORITZ Michael and Marlene Ruiz of the Bronx beat the odds yesterday, winning a school voucher lottery that drew applications from a whopping one-third of city parents with kids in public education. The three Ruiz children Matthew, 12, Mitchell, 10, and Mark, 8 were among…
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Kids Across America Line Up for Private Vouchers
Thursday, April 22, 1999 in Christian Science Monitor BY Ron Scherer, Staff writer Over the past two months, public service announcements have celebrities such as home-run slugger Sammy Sosa and poet Maya Angelou telling low-income parents now was the time to apply for a scholarship, a private voucher. It would be a way to get…
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Private ‘Vouchers’ Score an ‘A’ with Poorest Families
Thursday, October 12, 2000 in By LAURA WILLIAMS Courtise Elfe flunked her classes. Terrence Davis avoided school altogether, and Genevieve Hernandez thought she was stupid because she could barely read or write. But today, thanks to the Children’s Scholarship Fund, which allows low-income city kids to transfer from public to private and parochial schools, these…
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Son’s Private Education Gets an ‘A’ from Mom
Monday, August 28, 2000 in NY BY ALISON GENDAR, DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER To Honi Scales, it makes perfect sense that not only her son, but African-American children in general, would flourish once they transfer from public to private school. “At his public school, I would call the teacher and she would never call back.…
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Hope for the City’s School Kids
Thursday, April 28th, 2005 in The dirty little not-so-secret secret in public education is that Catholic schools in New York somehow manage to succeed in teaching kids where public schools can’t. And for a whole lot less money. So it’s great news that the Archdiocese of New York has launched a new $24 million initiative,…
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Private schools offer an answer
Monday, June 2, 2003 in by Michael Warder Manchester Avenue School is arguably the worst elementary school in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Its students tested last spring in the very lowest of the lowest 10 percent of California schools. And the state ranks among the poorest performers in the country. And although it…
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Parents getting vouchers say they are happy with private school
Monday, December 31, 2001 in By Matthew Franck When Laura Dillard eagerly signed up three years ago for a program that now helps hundreds of St. Louis families pay for private school, she took on a tiny but significant role in one of education’s hottest debates. Dillard’s four children are among about 1,300 in the…
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Check out urban private schools
Saturday, August 25, 2001 in BY MICHAEL WARDER Parents all across America are preparing now to send their children back to school. About 90% will send their children to public schools, and most of the rest will send them to private schools—an option that some families mistakenly feel is beyond their reach. The National Assn.…