Sentences with phrase «as school choice systems»

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As Harvard professor Paul E. Peterson notes, one «attraction of inner - city school choice is the possibility that a choice - based system could reduce the racial isolation within the central city.»

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice to lead New York City's school system, Alberto M. Carvalho, said that he had changed his mind and would not leave his job as superintendent of the Miami - Dade County system, leading to cheers in a packed meeting room of his school board.

On April 11, New York schools reported some widespread problems with the computerized tests for students in grades 3 - 8, such as students not being able to log in and «system error» showing up as test choices.

This damning statistic from last week's New School study on school choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the sSchool study on school choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the sschool choice exposes the absurdity of new Chancellor Richard Carranza's vow that «all students will be supported» as he aims to desegregate the system.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Education secretary Kirsty Williams, said: «We know that adopted children often need extra support when it comes to their education and this new guide aims to help parents make the right choices for their child as they navigate the school system.

When President - elect Donald Trump tapped Betsy DeVos as his pick for U.S. Secretary of Education, he triggered a debate over whether widespread school choice — like the voucher system that DeVos supports — would really boost student achievement across the country.

Both fans and critics of San Diego's closely watched school improvement efforts are applauding the choice of Carl A. Cohn, a former superintendent of the Long Beach, Calif., schools, as the system's next leader.

The state provides families with school choice through a statewide system of open enrollment and a charter school law rated as moderately strong by the Center for Education Reform.

But as that system is slowly replaced by one marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, parental choice, and the «portfolio management» mindset, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

Osborne attributes increases in student achievement to expanding school choice and charters, as well as an equitable school choice system.

A recent series of articles by the Orlando Sentinel highlighted problems at some schools that participate in the program, describing Florida's choice system as «so weakly regulated that some schools hire teachers without college degrees, hold classes in aging strip malls and falsify fire - safety and health records.»

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Greene's recognition of the values - laden nature of discipline systems all but begs for choice: Parents should be able to weigh, as one factor among many, schools whose philosophy about behavior management, classroom culture, and approach to student discipline most closely mirror their own beliefs and practices.

Last year, 42 percent of parents who used Newark's centralized enrollment system listed a charter school as their first choice.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

As charter pioneer Ted Kolderie wrote, this horse trade would ``... introduce the dynamics of choice, competition, and innovation into American's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

The explanation for this odd fact: since 1981 Chile has had a more comprehensive school choice system than any other country in the world, as well as a system of publicly available information on student test performance.

As O'Brien notes, a system of school choice would sever the ties between housing and education, which is a policy that could keep «many people from becoming cash - poor and wealthy — a precarious thing — in the first place.»

Choice does not preclude working for fundamental change in public school systems, nor does it necessarily equate with an unlimited endorsement of «privatization,» as opponents frequently charge.

New York City's open choice system provided them with access to schools throughout the city, which often included one or more new small, themed high schools, including those that opened in the same building as the larger school that had been closed.

As David Gardner said, it took autonomy and high standards in addition to generous funding following students to schools of their choice to help create the finest university system in the world.

Independent public schools of choice could turn out to be as disruptive to traditional education systems as those crummy little Sony radios turned out to be to the vacuum - tube behemoths and as Honda was to Detroit.

Federal involvement also carries political risks for private school choice, as the Obama administration learned through its efforts to promote Common Core standards and more robust teacher evaluation systems.

These approaches reflect the spectrum of choices available to policymakers as they design evaluation systems for schools and teachers.

Unified open - enrollment systems that encompass as many choices as possible from the regular public, charter, private, and virtual school universes are essential to the expansion of choice and competition in K — 12 education.

Edtech entrepreneurs and school choice advocates sometimes invoke it as an indomitable force that will redeem and transform broken school systems.

Denver serves as an example that robust public school choice systems can serve as one several key catalysts in urban revitalization and redevelopment efforts.

Through efforts such as the «Newark Enrolls» universal enrollment system and the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, Newark Public Schools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sSchools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sschools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their schoolsschools.

For example, if an extremely popular school joins the OneApp and many families rank that school first, the percentage of families receiving their first choice might fall even as the system's ability to match families to desirable schools improves.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

But some cities, like Denver, are leading the way in practices to help ease the burden on parents, such as universal enrollment systems and partnerships between districts and charter schools to assist parents in making informed choices.

Camden Enrollment is a system of choice where all families can access great schools for their children, regardless of the school's status as district, charter, or renaissance.

As a result, the school systems we oversee have implemented a wide variety of school choice initiatives, all at large scale.

Her research has been focused predominately on K - 12 public education fiscal policy, as well as the competitive and efficiency effects of school choice on the public school system.

I share the sentiment that some of the recent laws have gone overboard in requiring state tests, etc.Private choice programs should be clearly understood as an opt - out of the public school system rather than an invitation for the states to impose their standards and tests.

My hope is — as the public school system continues to change and improve — school choice will be available to all families who find themselves in need.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

While political realities may necessitate initially limiting eligibility to disadvantaged students, such as those with special needs or from low - income families, or those who were assigned to a low - performing district school, these students» interests will be best served in the long term by a universal system of choice.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

Friedman's system also allowed for choice on both sides of the market: Just as parents got to pick where to send their kids, schools had the right to accept some applicants and reject others.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the Orleans Parish school district dismissed all of its employees as the city underwent a transition to a charter and choice - based system of charter schools.

From a policy - maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which do not feature choice.

And as Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos settles into her new post, her unbridled support for school choice and vouchers has electrified debate once again over how — and if — such provisions should fit into an American school system that many see as deeply flawed.

Whereas present choice systems that are viewed as models for other districts to emulate are designed to achieve the closest possible match between parental preference and school assignment, future choice systems might be redesigned to obtain greater diversity in school - level student populations.

So if the public - school analogy holds, the public option in health - care insurance won't create a system of choice and competition, as the White House claims; it will slowly — or not so slowly — give way to a (nearly) single - payer system.