Sentences with phrase «even school choice»

Even school choice supporters acknowledge this change will be ineffective in helping families without means to choose the private school they wish for their children.

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We see parental school choice (even vouchers) emerging as real possibilities as Americans see a moral vacuum in public education.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

But apparently it's a country where good moral people can be manipulated by self - serving politicians into being distracted from the larger issues by high - school debate questions like «when does life begin» or «should gays marry,» or even «is being gay a choice.»

Even as the availability and popularity of charter schools, vouchers, and homeschooling increases, there are enormous pockets of students who, for a variety of reasons, have only one choice for schooling.

Even though the creators of the National Curriculum are keen to emphasise the importance of what they call «the English literary heritage», by which they mean «authors with an enduring appeal that transcends the period in which they were writing, and who have played a significant role in the development of literature in English» [Qualifications and Curriculum Authority 2007, 71), their choice of recommended authors reveals a set of post-Protestant secular assumptions which need to be challenged if Catholic culture is to flourish in Catholic schools.

Among the many factors that influence my choice of milk to use in this recipe are several long - term studies (including the Harvard's Health Professionals Study and the one by Catherine S. Berkey of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital) that have shown that even low - fat dairy products can contribute to weight gain.

Great choice for a healthy breakfast, after school snack or even light dinner.

Laredo students value the «food court» style cafeteria setup and were excited to be provided with even more choices to create healthier school meals.

And even though I'd like to think I'd make a different choice in the situation when my kids are high school age, now that I do have children of my own I'm a lot more sympathetic to my dad.

She and I are discussing possible college choices even though she's only a sophomore in high school.

How will he support you in the kindergarten selection process, especially for private school, but even in the public school process if you will have a choice.

It's easier than you think to make good choices at a fast - food restaurant, the mall, or even the school cafeteria.

Even if your school provides healthy options, it can be too easy to give in to temptation and pick a less healthy choice when you're feeling really hungry.

After - school care may be a good child care choice for a work - at - home parent's family, even if one of the reasons to work at home is spending more time with family.

Even if the school food were EXEMPLARY, I don't approve of the idea that you can force better nutrition by taking all the choices out of the hands of the families.

Even with the close of school looming ominously on the horizon, there is still time for parents to make educated choices for summer camps for their children.

Even though I am confident in our choice of school, I still have fears as we embark on this journey.

I was — and remain — a big milk drinker, so even on days that I wasn't making the healthiest choices for myself I was still consuming 1 - 3 of those small cartons of skim milk each day at school.

Sixth -, seventh - and eighth - graders at the Oswego school were busy polishing off selections from a multiple - choice menu that included tacos, salads and chicken patties, and even a serving of turkey.

Bob McManus: «Cuomo, and even some charter - school advocates, are projecting Albany's just - adopted budget as a modest win for the state's hard - pressed school - choice movement.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

-- the choice to prioritise pet projects, such as free schools, elected police commissioners, and David Cameron's disastrous top down NHS reorganisation - even as school repairs are cancelled, police officers lose their jobs, and patients wait longer.

But all Democrats — and all defenders of public education — should steadfastly oppose this nomination, even those who believe in «school choice.»

Even worse, the sham school budget votes that occur each May got worse, with «contingency» budgets designed to ensure the unions get whatever they want every year and robbing voters of any real choice.

The announcement caught even some of Ms. Moskowitz's top backers by surprise, and threw open the question of who, if anyone, would carry the banner for school - choice advocates — including, among others, some of New York's financial elites — in a 2017 campaign.

«Even with the use of these funds, school districts still have painful choices,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

In schools across the U.S., multiple - choice questions such as this one provoke anxiety, even dread.

All the girls from my own village, after they were circumcised, they had to drop out of school, and be married to old men — people who were not even of their choice.

Even your picky kids who don't like vegetables will be all over this as a great choice for their after school snack!

A study reported in the Archives of Family Medicine found that kids who regularly sit down with their families for an evening meal make wiser food choices, eat more vegetables, and get more nutrients than those who do not.2 For older children, the American Psychological Association found that family mealtime plays an important role in helping teens deal with the pressures of adolescence, such as motivation for school, peer relationships, depression, and making better choices with drugs and alcohol.

«Homemade Granola is not only a wonderful and healthy choice for breakfast but also for those last - minute and on - the - go snacks at work, school,... even those 3:00 in the afternoon cravings.

It became the perfect choice for our kids walking to school and now even Granny has vest.

Apps like Dwellr and HomeFacts gives you various statistics about safety, school choices, and even natural disaster risks.

They even send you a bag with your purchased item to donate gently or new clothing and 40 % of the sales from these items they sale for you will help a school of your choice raise money.

Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which new forms of school choice will shape the public schools are hardly definitive.

The carefully conducted research by Caroline Hoxby and Jay Greene tells us that choice - even the threat of choice - provokes a detectable response from the public schools.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Participating students were not generally required to take exams — certainly not state exams — and even if they were, the results were not released by schools in ways that would inform parental choices or lead to administrative actions for chronically low performing schools.

Even if school choice were used only as a means to bolster accountability, it would reconfigure American education on the basis of an entirely new paradigm.

Parliamentary under secretary of state for the school system, Lord Nash, commented: «The 52 new schools will provide much - needed places and encourage innovation, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

Yet even a preliminary assessment is remarkable, beginning with John Walton's major contribution to the nationwide Children's Scholarship Fund, which revealed to a broad public the desire for school choice among low - income families.

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

Researchers and policymakers may be continuing to debate solutions to the nation's reading woes, but many struggling schools appear to have reached a consensus on the subject, even if not by choice.

I do expect the administration to make an effort to act on President - elect Trump's campaign proposal to devote 20 billion federal dollars to expanding school choice for low - income students, but it's a bit hard to see a Republican Congress either approving that much new spending or even redirecting existing funds on which districts currently rely.

Even after selecting candidates, schools are unlikely to offer hiring bonuses or other incentives to land their top choices.

Trump's conception, now reinforced by the DeVos appointment, promotes choice, broadly construed, to authorize charter schools, vouchers and opportunity scholarships including public, private, for profit, and maybe even religious schools.

Avis Glaze, former superintendent of the Ontario education system, correctly observed that Canada does not have charter schools, but others mentioned that the large number of religious schools that are both government - funded and subject to state regulation give Canadians even more choice than exists in the United States.

Some of these changes may well have happened without the competitive challenge of school choice, but even choice's most vigorous opponents concede that at least some of the district's responses were produced by the threat of external competition.