Sentences with phrase «need of school choice»

CHAMPION AND FEARLESS ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF SCHOOL CHOICE The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday morning.

On the contrary, the evidence seems to suggest that the families that are most in need of school choice — minorities, low - income households, and students with lower prior academic achievement — are more likely to apply.

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A school librarian in Boston rejected a box of Dr. Seuss books sent from First Lady Melania Trump, saying the choice of literature was «cliche» and her school was not in need of them.

I can't add much to this flood of advice except to submit, with humility, that in my view we don't have much choice about our fundamental emotional attitude; it is a matter of personal character (body chemistry and the close culture of family and schooling), but this need not affect our choice of creed and code if we have independence of mind.

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.

For example, sex within marriage is promoted as the ideal of the Catholic faith, but the school explicitly recognises the reality that some young people may choose to be sexually active and, if that is the case, they need the knowledge and confidence to make an informed choice to protect themselves from pregnancy and STIs.

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September marks the start of school for many kids, which inevitably means children need new school supplies, easy lunch choices, and new fall outfits.

It then distributes it to a child in need through a non-profit organization of the buyer's choice — everything from local schools to national and global organizations like Baby2Baby, Volunteers of America's Operation Backpack, and the Salvation Army.

School districts are also offering a wider variety of choices to appeal to diverse student tastes and dietary needs or preferences.

Every single day Klein makes the choice to NOT protect reproductive rights for the women of New York, to NOT give working families access to great healthcare they can actually afford, and to NOT give our children desperately needed school funding, which by the way, they are owed by law.

It's about changing the structure of education — spreading choice, giving schools more independence, recognising the need for competition...

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

«Dietary choices can influence the ability of agriculture to meet our need for food,» said lead author Christian Peters, Ph.D., associate professor at the Friedman School.

Dr Christiana Tsaousi, a lecturer in marketing and consumption at the University of Leicester's School of Management, believes underwear choices are hugely affected by personal taste influenced by social background, professional status and upbringing, and why every woman's underwear needs are individual.

The popular belief that healthy eating starts at home and that parents» dietary choices help children establish their nutritional beliefs and behaviors may need rethinking, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

We envision a day when all elementary students are exposed to principles of genetics and disease risk; when all high school students have the opportunity to do hands - on experiments with DNA; and when all families have access to genetic information they need to make informed health care choices.

But whatever our work or schooling choices, I imagine we all struggle with the underlying idea that we need a lot of «stuff» to make our kids happy.

The researchers also compared sugary ready - to - eat cereal to oatmeal and found oatmeal's nutritional advantage (more nourishing whole food meal) made it a better choice at improving brain power and encouraging better test scores.1 Additional stats show higher test grades and better school attendance in breakfast eaters than in non-breakfast eaters too.2 Bottom line: to excel in whatever we do, whether it be school, work, play or relationships, we need breakfast to be at the top of our mental game.

The Federal government offers Magnet Schools Assistance grants to districts as a way to promote this more positive school choice option that meets the unique needs of the learners who attend them.

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.»

The Los Angeles Unified and Compton Unified school districts haven't adequately notified parents of their school choice rights, and they haven't provided enough options for the children currently attending schools defined as in need of improvement under the federal No Child Left...

When I meet parents with children in Years 5 and 6 who are starting to plan their child's senior school, I try and paint a picture of the choices a learner will need to make for Year 12 study; six years into the future.»

In addition, districts in our sample needed to have a minimum of 6 percent of students in choice schools, the level Caroline Hoxby identified as a threshold above which districts could reasonably be expected to respond to competitive pressure (see «Rising Tide,» research, Winter 2001).

I didn't know anything about open education philosophy, but as soon as I read the school's literature — the emphasis on diversity, student choice, and the development of creativity and a lifelong passion for learning — I knew Piedmont was exactly where I needed to be.

As Robin Lake recently wrote: «Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.»

He said: «It is our view that the choice of subjects should be more flexible to allow schools to have greater freedom in how they tailor the curriculum to the individual needs of each pupil.

More than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their children.

Hosted by Education Today editor Jonathan Swift and Neil Watkins of Think IT, this vital webinar will show you how to manage tough choices and prioritise efficiencies and savings to ensure your school's IT infrastructure remains appropriate to your needs.

With the school - choice alternative, for example, parents wanting the best education for their child often need financial means and knowledge of the educational options to make an informed choice of another school, resources not always available in low - income communities.

If Republicans want an advantage, Spellings argues, they need to push choice and the hold - schools - accountable platform because «that's safe territory for Republicans of all stripes,» she said.

First, make Supplemental Educational Services (SES) available as soon as schools are declared in need of improvement, the same time as school choice is offered.

Brian Lightman, the Association of School and College Leaders general secretary, said: «Schools have no choice but to focus more of their resources in this direction, while balancing this demand against the need to give 11 - to 14 - year - olds a good foundation at secondary level.»

If they are going to pick the school choice winners and losers based on test scores, then test scores need to be strongly predictive of other things we care about.

With the choices available, students increasingly don't need to make the tradeoff between attending a large school with lots of choices but perhaps lots of anonymity or a small school with limited choices but a deeply developed personal support structure.

One of the things school choice programs need is certainty about market conditions, so that new schools can open with an expectation that there will be demand for their seats.

To truly understand the differences in long - term effects across these three programs and to ultimately answer the question of when and how private school choice works, we need to examine more programs and variation in outcomes across different private schools within each program to learn more about program design.

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.

Reality: While it's true that younger students, whether they be elementary school students or freshmen at your high school, need a more fundamental set of skills for both academics and behavior, students of all ages can work to know themselves better, relate better to others, and make responsible choices.

«There has never been more powerful evidence about the need for private school choice than the data that are coming out about public school choice,» says Clint Bolick, vice president of the Institute for Justice, a conservative legal group.

Now districts with schools identified as «in need of improvement» would have to offer supplemental educational services immediately, and could delay NCLB school choice until the next year.

As a new Administration takes shape in Washington, with an education leader who has long been an advocate of parental choice, the charter school movement needs to redouble its efforts to turn happy parents into active warriors for charter schools and school choice.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

We need to learn from the contagious successes of outstanding public schools and choice programs like the Amistad Academy in Connecticut, the Green Dot schools in California, and the voluntary interdistrict transfer program in St. Louis.

School choice will never work optimally for the families that need it most until every community that supplies choices also supplies kindred sources of assistance.

«As technology becomes an increasingly integral part of education, schools need IT expertise in multiple types of technology, which leaves them with two choices; to find a single IT support specialist with the knowledge and expertise of five different people, which is almost impossible — or to employ multiple experts to cover the vast range of technologies, which is very expensive.

Everything anyone needs to know about school choice — who benefits from it and who opposes it — was summarized in the first few minutes of the movie Hidden Figures... and in the trailer right before it.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

One of the biggest takeaways for me is that, because a family's choice of school is a function of lots of factors (e.g., academics, extracurriculars, distance), we need to double down on efforts to publicize a wide variety of information on schools of choice.

Parents whose children have special needs are much less likely than parents of students in regular education to say their child is in a school that was their first or second choice (58 percent versus 74 percent).