Private K-12 Schools Lag Far Behind Public Schools in Using Federal Education Programs.

AScribe Health News Service, September, 2007

Byline: The Urban Institute

WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Fewer than half of the nation's private elementary and secondary schools use the federally funded services available to them, says a new Urban Institute study. Many of these resources - special education for disabled children, teachers' professional development, drug abuse prevention, and more - are meant to help public- and private-school students alike, but go largely untapped by the private institutions.

In the report, "Private School Participants in Programs under the No Child Left Behind Act and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act," education policy researcher Gayle Christensen finds that only 43 percent of private schools have students receiving...

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