Instead of having just two kinds of schools, public or private, America will have a palette of choice, including voucher-redeeming public schools, voucher-redeeming private or parochial ones, quasi-public charter schools, quasi-private charter schools and home learning.
Florida introduced a plan to allow children in the worst public schools to move to better schools, private, public or parochial. (A state judge's decision to strike down the scheme is being appealed against.) Illinois introduced tax credits for educational expenses.
These schools, like the parochial schools, are also assumed to be safer than the public schools.
All these programmes have run into court challenges, principally on the ground that they involve the spending of public money in parochial schools (thereby infringing the constitutional separation of church and state).
The IRS does not allow deductions for school uniforms, even if required, for public, parochial or private schools.
The strike affected about 150, 000 students who travel by bus to public, private and parochial schools, both in the city and in the surrounding suburbs.
Countless parochial schools, which spend far less per student than do public schools, easily out perform their public-school counterparts.
She has been the key vote in a number of notable cases, including a 1995 case limiting affirmative action, a 2002 decision permitting public aid and vouchers to religious and parochial schools, and in several abortion-related cases, where a woman's reproductive rights were narrowly reaffirmed.
They point out that Cleveland parents who don't like parochial schools can send their kids to the city's regular public schools, or to public charter schools and magnet schools.
When Mayor Richard Daley seized control of the failing public schools in Chicago, the city's parochial schools were taken as a model of how they should be restructured.
Most parents have opted for local parochial schools, where the children are receiving a significantly better education than those in the public school system.
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