http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/privateschools/ en-us Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:11:03 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137810/posts Obamas Choose Elite Private School for Kids Friday, November 21, 2008 8:04 PM WASHINGTON – President-elect Barack Obama and his wife have chosen Sidwell Friends School for their two daughters, opting for a private institution that another White House child, Chelsea Clinton, attended a decade ago. "A number of great schools were considered," said Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama. "In the end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now." She said Sidwell can provide the security and privacy that Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, will need as... http://www.newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2137810/posts#comment Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:11:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2137365/posts A few months ago, Barack Obama told a gathering of the American Federation of Teachers that he opposes private school choice programs, adding: “We need to focus on fixing and improving our public schools; not throwing our hands up and walking away from them.” It’s not clear whether or not the president-elect will be able to fix our public schools, and I don’t know if he’s thrown up his hands, but he and his two daughters have just walked away from the public schools. Again. When they move from Chicago to D.C., Malia and Sasha Obama will be moving from... Cato@Liberty http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2137365/posts#comment Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:09:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136691/posts Obama's children: Off to private school at a cost of $29,000 each By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist Barack and Michelle Obama's children will attend Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C., it was confirmed Saturday. It's a private school that charges (gulp) $29,000 a year in tuition. And that doesn't cover the cost of textbooks or other services from the school. You can see the eye-popping numbers at the school's Web site. In KC, that's double what the most expensive private schools -- Rockhurst, St. Theresa's, Barstow, Pembroke Day -- charge. Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136691/posts#comment Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:24:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136339/posts WASHINGTON - U.S. President-elect Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, have chosen a private school in northwestern Washington, D.C., for their two daughters on Friday, where former President Bill Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, has studied. "A number of great schools were considered. In the end, the Obamas selected the school that was the best fit for what their daughters need right now," said Katie McCormick Lelyveld, a spokeswoman for Michelle Obama. Obama's daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, would move to the capital with their parents from Chicago, Illinois, after his father is sworn in as the next president on Jan.... Xinhua http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136339/posts#comment Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:30:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136264/posts Clinton, Daschle, Geithner… The big-name speculation over President-elect Barack Obama’s Cabinet appointments can wait while Obama watchers focus on another critical name that surfaced on Friday: Sidwell. The Associated Press is reporting that the Obamas have chosen the Sidwell Friends School in Washington for daughters Sasha, seven years old, and Malia, 10. The private Quaker school’s alumni include former presidential offspring Chelsea Clinton and Tricia Nixon Cox, as well as House Financial Services Chairman Barney Frank and a former princess of Japan. Sidwell Friends beat out another elite school, Georgetown Day School. Michelle Obama and her daughters reportedly visited both... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2136264/posts#comment Sat, 22 Nov 2008 01:11:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135450/posts The most telling appointment Barack Obama has made since becoming President-elect has nothing to do with his Cabinet or senior advisors. It was the family appointment last week with Georgetown Day School, a private grammar school in Washington D.C. to which the Obamas are apparently considering sending their two daughters. I applaud Obama's commitment to the education of his daughters, choosing to send them to the best schools. It is just too bad that Obama opposes extending that choice to families whose children are relegated by geography and by income to schools he knows and everyone knows will fail them.... Urquhart Media, LLC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2135450/posts#comment Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:27:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134050/posts Will Barack Obama, a man of the people, entrust his daughters' education to the Washington, D.C., public school system? This is doubtful. And no one should criticize him if he didn't. Washington, D.C., and Chicago are teeming with parents who long to send their children to private or parochial schools. The difference between the Obamas and these other families is that the Obamas have money and power. Another difference is that Obama would deny these other families the same type of educational options his family has. For Obama opposes school choice. He says it weakens public education. He says this... Manchester Union Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2134050/posts#comment Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:18:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132696/posts Now that Barack Obama has won the Presidential election, he has some personal choices to make when he moves his family to Washington DC. One of the most important choices they will face is where to send their daughters to be educated. However, the liberal hawks have already swarmed in: Bobb and Lord have ludicrously urged Obama to send his daughters into the “trenches” of D.C.’s public school system. They write that “no private option offers President-elect Obama a personal reality check on the No Child Left Behind mandates he campaigned to reform. Public school parents see test-prep squeezing out... PolicyInAction.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132696/posts#comment Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:12:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132270/posts The former rebels plan to put all children in public schools by 2010, saying it will even the playing field. Kathmandu, Nepal - The massive election win last April by Nepal's former rebel Maoists put them in the position to set the government agenda, and bring about drastic changes they promised during their campaign. But their initial proposals on education – to end private investment in schools and distribute academic certificates to Maoist fighters – have left many Nepalese worried. They're concerned that their new government will take the country in too radical a direction that favors its former fighters... cs monitor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132270/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:18:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131976/posts President-elect Obama and his wife Michelle came to town and did what people with young children usually do before moving. They looked at their new house and then Mrs. Obama checked out the school choices for their two young daughters. The schools Mrs. Obama visited were private, not public. While no decision has yet been made, it seems obvious the girls enjoy their private school in Chicago and have flourished in it. Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131976/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:56:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130648/posts Barack and Michelle Obama are poised to commit a classic act of limousine-liberal hypocrisy—in this case, turning their backs on tens of thousands of inner-city kids in Washington, D.C. Public schools, it seems, are good enough for poor and middle-class families, but not for rich families like the Obamas. In July, when he addressed the NAACP’s annual convention, Sen. Barack Obama expressed his devotion to American public schools, vowing he would not “walk away from them” by supporting school-choice programs like Sen. John McCain did. “What he’s offering amounts to little more than the same tired rhetoric about vouchers,” said... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130648/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:32:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130748/posts Barack and Michelle Obama are poised to commit a classic act of limousine-liberal hypocrisy -- in this case, turning their backs on tens of thousands of inner-city kids in Washington, D.C. Public schools, it seems, are good enough for poor and middle-class families, but not for rich families like the Obamas. In July, when he addressed the NAACP's annual convention, Sen. Barack Obama expressed his devotion to American public schools, vowing he would not "walk away from them" by supporting school-choice programs like Sen. John McCain did. "What he's offering amounts to little more than the same tired rhetoric about... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130748/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:00:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130401/posts D.C. public schools? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130401/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:39:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130265/posts Barack Obama family likely to choose private schools The Obama family are considering sending their children to one of Washington's elite private schools. By Alex Spillius in Washington Last Updated: 6:35PM GMT 11 Nov 2008 Government schools in the area are among the worst in the country, set in some of the poorest, most crime-ridden neighbourhoods. The couple have been urged to make a statement by spurning the private schools traditionally attended by children of the elite. But it appears they are inclined to go private for their girls Malia, ten and Sasha, seven, and spend about $56,000 (£33,000) a... UK Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2130265/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:21:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129793/posts WASHINGTON -- Students at a private school in Washington's tony Georgetown neighborhood were buzzing after a visit from Michelle Obama, who is scouting new schools for her two daughters. Michelle Obama flew to Washington ahead of her husband on Monday and then visited Georgetown Day School. Reporters and camera crews had camped out at two other Washington private schools: Sidwell Friends School and the Maret School. NBC4/AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129793/posts#comment Tue, 11 Nov 2008 03:26:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108065/posts Call it what you will: Walking the walk; putting your money where your mouth is; having courage of your convictions. You just won't find much of it in the public sector, here or abroad. Teachers, for example, espouse the virtues of public schools and their unions fight school choice tooth and nail, especially when it might free urban children from the depravity, violence and hopelessness that plague their schools. But an analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data by the Heartland Institute found 21.5 percent of public-school teachers send their children to private schools; the average among American families is 12... Waterbury Republican-American http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2108065/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:44:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2064501/posts HARRISBURG -- The legislator and the evangelicals fired dueling Bible verses. Canon law clashed with civil law. Olive branches were tentatively tossed, but it was hard to tell if there were really any takers. And state AFL-CIO President Bill George lit up a talk-weary room with his patented zeal but poured that passion into mostly empty seats. The state House of Representatives Labor Relations Committee held a hearing Monday on House Bill 2626 – which would give Catholic school teachers legal protection they currently lack – with an agenda of speakers longer than the time allotted: 18 people were expected... The Times Leader http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2064501/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:08:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056247/posts VANCOUVER — In an unprecedented cross-border initiative, a court-appointed official from the United States is trying to take over a private school in British Columbia run by the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Bruce Wisan, who was appointed by a U.S. court to protect the assets of the FLDS, has launched a lawsuit in B.C. Supreme Court seeking authority to gain control of the Bountiful Elementary-Secondary School located in a rural area outside Creston, B.C. GlobeandMail.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056247/posts#comment Mon, 4 Aug 2008 15:41:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000511/posts MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. -- For 46 years, crime, recessions and hurricanes proved no threat to the daily ritual of St. Monica School, where the entire blue-and-white uniformed student body gathered outside each morning to join in prayer. Come June, though, the tradition will fade away, and "amen" will close St. Monica's morning recitations for the last time. The school, a home-away-from-home for mostly minority students, will close. As Pope Benedict XVI next week makes his first trip to the U.S. as pontiff, Catholic schools across the country, long a force in educating the underprivileged regardless of their faith, face the... newsmax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2000511/posts#comment Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:53:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994603/posts The Washington Post March 30, 2008 6:00 AM Amongst the moss-draped live oaks of Charleston Collegiate School's 33-acre campus in Johns Island, S.C. - where children of all ethnicities, religions and abilities work and play together - the words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright seem alien and hostile. His sometimes hate-filled rhetoric is weirdly out of sync with this quiet corner of the Old South, where ancestors of the school's African-American students worked as slaves, perhaps upon these very fields. The differences between this microcosm of a near-utopian community and the world that informs Wright are as stark as the... Recordnet.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994603/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 20:39:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917175/posts ...Cases like these have increasingly become a flash point in special education, pitting parents against school systems that say they cannot afford to pay to privately educate disabled children whose parents unilaterally reject their proposed placements. Expectations that the Supreme Court would settle whether such parents must try public schools first evaporated after Justice Anthony M. Kennedy recused himself without explanation in two cases from New York State. Without Justice Kennedy, the court split 4 to 4 in a New York City case on whether Tom Freston, the former chief executive of Viacom, should have put his learning-disabled son in... New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1917175/posts#comment Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:45:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914055/posts <p>Harvard professor Martin Feldstein used to tell students in his introductory economics class that economists agree on 99% of the issues in the field. From the nature of monopolies to the basic laws of inflation, Feldstein asserted, economists of all political stripes are in accord on the same principles. He claimed that what we read about in the popular press are the 1% of economic issues where the data support no clear-cut conclusion.</p> Time Magazine via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1914055/posts#comment Sun, 21 Oct 2007 00:06:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889302/posts Jewish Leaders Demand Retraction of Ontario Premier's Attack on Faith Schools McGuinty's comments are flip-flop from his previous support for religious schools By Hilary White and Steve Jalsevac TORONTO, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, in comments to the National Post on Tuesday, accused Ontario's Premier Dalton McGuinty of doing "a complete about face" from his previous position of support for limited funding of independent religious schools.  Last week, the Liberal premier of Ontario, Dalton McGuinty, called faith-based schools "segregationist" and harmful to Ontario's "social cohesion." "I don't think that Ontarians believe... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1889302/posts#comment Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:50:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888524/posts Durham — A teacher at a Durham private school underwent a sex change over the summer, sparking a debate among school administrators and at least one parent over how to approach the issue in class. Leslie Webster has taught music at Duke School for Children for 12 years as a woman but started the new school year Wednesday as a man. The parents of all 460 students at the private elementary and middle school, which isn't affiliated with Duke University, received a letter this week notifying them of Webster's sex change and outlining plans to inform students on Sept. 4.... WRAL http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1888524/posts#comment Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:02:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721189/posts NEW HOPE, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC) in Washinton D.C. is calling for an investigation after a private school sponsored a field trip to a nearby abortuary, triggering outrage in the local community.More than a dozen high school students from Solebury School, near Philadelphia, were taken by bus to the Planned Parenthood location in Warminster, Catholic News Service reported, where they spent several hours touring the clinic. According to CNS the students wore vests used by abortion staff when escorting women into the building. Jason Gordon, social science teacher for the school... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1721189/posts#comment Wed, 18 Oct 2006 00:00:24 GMT