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In April 2019, the five independent BASIS Schools in New York, California, Washington, and Virginia were purchased by Spring Education Group. [4] BASIS Curriculum Schools seek to prepare students, in the elementary through high school level, to be competitive globally.
BASIS has denied this and notes that it cannot legally "weed out" students at a public school—and there is no proof of such action. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In 2013, the District of Columbia Public Charter School Board rejected a request to expand, citing concerns about the high number of students who had withdrawn from the school since it opened.
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley was founded in 2014 inside a former IBM office in San Jose.Based on the success of BASIS charter schools opened in Arizona, Texas, and Washington D.C., BASIS.ed decided to implement its educational model into a private school, opening two new private schools in San Jose and Brooklyn.
Grants are also provided by the US Military. The military tuition assistance program is for students who are of a military family. The military tuition program helps to pay almost the full amount of a student’s tuition costs. The program pays semester hours that are $250 and less and only applies to active duty members. [5]
In April 2019 SEG purchased the five BASIS Independent Schools based in California, New York City, Washington, and Virginia. 190 parents at the pre-K-12 school in Red Hook, Brooklyn (opened 2014) and the pre-K-8 school in Manhattan (opened 2017) wrote a letter with concerns that BASIS was now owned by a Chinese-based private equity group ...
If a student has a high SAT score and a low family income, they will receive larger institutional need-based grants than a student with a low family income that has low SAT scores. In 1996, public higher education institutions gave students with high SAT scores and a low family income $1,255 in need-based grants.
Founded in 1947, NYSAIS is the second largest state association of independent schools in the United States. As of July 1, 2024 its member schools enrolled approximately 83,000 students. [1] It was established "to protect independent schools from obstructive legislation and regulation". [2]
As of the 2014–15 school year, the school had an enrollment of 3,785 students and 160.4 classroom teachers (on a full-time equivalent [FTE] basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 23.6:1. There were 1,849 students (48.9% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 180 (4.8% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.