Sentences with phrase «plan for school choice»

Understandably, black residents spoke out against this inequity and in 1998 the plan for school choice was revisited.

For example, after spending billions building and operating magnet schools across the state in the wake of a state Supreme Court decision ordering Connecticut to desegregate Hartford schools, state lawmakers in 2009 passed a moratorium on spending state money for new magnet schools until the state education commissioner crafts a comprehensive plan for school choice in the state.

Today as head of the senate education committee, he has done his part to federalize the plan for school choice while being the artful dodger in avoiding any conversation concerning «choice.»

Trump's campaign plan for school choice was scant on details: He did not say where the $ 20 billion in federal funding would come from or how it would be doled out.

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HINSDALE — Stymied by a Park District vote on its first choice, Hinsdale Elementary School District 181 is moving forward with plans to prepare a site for a new middle school on land it owns in Prospect Park in Clarendon School District 181 is moving forward with plans to prepare a site for a new middle school on land it owns in Prospect Park in Clarendon school on land it owns in Prospect Park in Clarendon Hills.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

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New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

Paladino concluded: «No, I'm not leaving the school board, not when it's time to help implement the real choice elements of Trump's plan for education reform.

«Today's announcement shows that we will not waver in pressing ahead with our plans to open 500 more of these innovative and exciting schools over the next five years, creating 270,000 places, delivering an excellent education and giving parents across the country real choice for their children.»

We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.

In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Community Board 2 has called on the Department of Education to approve plans for Hunts Point High School for Sustainable Community Initiatives, a school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.&School for Sustainable Community Initiatives, a school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.&school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.&school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.»

The Governor also touched on familiar themes such as his education plan which included more overall funding for schools, expanding school choice as well as the state's voucher program and pre-K.

No, I'm not leaving the school board, not when it's time to help implement the real choice elements of Trump's plan for education reform.

«Allowing health plans the flexibility to voluntarily cover more services outside the deductible would enhance consumer choice,» says Fendrick, a professor in the U-M Medical School and School of Public Health who heads the Center for Value - Based Insurance Design (V - BID).

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.»

It includes planning for school programs, employment and work training opportunities, choices about participating in the community, and building social relationships.

Fitting YES Prep into an existing middle school, with plans to build through high school, created just another choice option for parents.

Adoption of a statewide choice plan in California, with its 4.6 million public - school students, would be by far the most significant victory yet for proponents of allowing parents to select their children's public schools.

In Kansas City in the late 1980s and early»90s, African American parents were justifiably irate when the federal court's integration plan denied their children access to the magnet schools of their choice because so many seats had been set aside for white children — who did not show up in sufficient numbers to fill them.

Saying they support «diversity by choice,» members of a task force led by three local mayors are urging the Wake County, N.C., school district to abandon a student - assignment plan that aims for economic integration and adopt a neighborhood - schools approach instead.

Gatlin says she is proud of Romney's education plan, particularly its focus on increasing choice for parents, which would allow for expanded access to highquality public charter schools, and make Title I and IDEA funds portable, so that low income and special needs students can choose which schools to attend and bring the funding with them.

The chart above also makes it clear that some families in Cleveland still choose low - performing schools, probably for reasons the Plan hasn't yet or can't address: a lack of transportation to better options or the pull of neighborhood history that can make a low - performing school seem like a good choice.

In addition to rescinding regulations on K - 12 school accountability and teacher preparation programs, as well as guidance that jeopardized due process for alleged sexual assault perpetrators, Trump worked with Congress to advance school choice in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which made private - school tuition eligible for 529 savings plans.

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

These contracts, says the Obama plan, would include «information on tutoring, academic support, and public school choice options for students.»

Louisiana appears on track to enact a private - school - voucher plan for New Orleans that borrows from choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing public schools.

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The news comes as conservative members from within Morgan's own party highlighted doubts about the government's plans, claiming there was lacking choice for most schools and that rural schools could be compromised.

Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein of Ed Week note that the plan calls for the creation of a new $ 1 billion program that will allow students to take federal, state, and local education dollars to the public school of their choice.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

The evidence from a study of New York's magnet schools for secondary students «seems to indicate that it is possible to construct a public high - school choice system that eliminates some of the worst excesses of an unfettered choice plan,» the study says.

As part of his proposed budget for fiscal 1992, President Bush includes $ 690 million in education initiatives, including plans to reward school districts that establish choice policies including private schools.

That feature is what lost the support of longtime social - justice warrior (and founder of the pro school choice Black Alliance for Educational Options) Howard Fuller, who in July shocked many allies by stating his opposition to the Nevada plan: «Parental choice should be used principally as a tool to empower communities that face systemic barriers to greater educational and economic opportunities... I could never approve of a plan that would give those with existing advantages even greater means to leverage the limited number of private school options, to the detriment of low - income families.»

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

Speaking at the Academy Ambassadors conference, Gibb praised the «Schools that work for everyone» consultation and said that plans to open new selective schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education Schools that work for everyone» consultation and said that plans to open new selective schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education system.

Donald Trump unveiled a school choice plan on Thursday that would create a $ 20 billion block grant to expand charter and private school options for low - income children — an idea championed by conservatives, but which has previously fizzled in Congress.

''... Largely unknown outside of Michigan political and philanthropic circles, her appointment signals that Trump intends to make school choice and a voucher plan for low - income families a centerpiece of his education agenda.

In each city the school board modified its plan several times in light of, for example, hostility to busing, the threat of resegregation, and the desirability of introducing greater student choice.

Betsy DeVos promises an expansive school choice plan, says opting out would be «terrible mistake» for states chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017/...

[20] Andrew J. Coulson, «Direct Financial Responsibility for Parents,» in «Forging Consensus: Can the School Choice Community Come Together on an Explicit Goal and a Plan for Achieving It?

For instance, does an accountability plan need to come before school choice?

St Paul — Minnesota's Democratic - controlled Senate Finance Committee last week deleted from an omnibus education - aid bill Gov. Rudy Perpich's controversial open - enrollment plan, dealing a severe blow to the state's chances for a public - school choice plan.

On the importance of government, for example, Brian Eschbacher, executive director of Planning and Enrollment Services in Denver Public Schools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confiSchools, described policies and systems in Denver that help make choice work better in the real world: a streamlined enrollment system to make choosing easier for families, more flexible transportation options for families, a common performance framework and accountability system for traditional and charter schools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools to ensure all areas of a city have quality schools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools, and a system that gives parents the information they need to choose schools confischools confidently.

Across the country, school choice supporters have planned over 5,500 events to celebrate and advocate for increased educational options for students and families.

REACH Alliance Applauds Senate for Advancing School Choice Bill Sen. Piccola & Sen. Williams» Senate Bill 1 Mirrors Most of Governor's Education Reform Plan (Harrisburg, PA — October 26, 2011)-- Senate Bill 1, The Opportunity Scholarship Act, was approved -LSB-...]

«chronically underperforming schools and few high - quality school choices for struggling families,» according to the organization's plan released in June.

GPSN's areas of focus are in South LA, East LA and the northeast San Fernando Valley because they have «chronically underperforming schools and few high - quality school choices for struggling families,» according to the organization's plan released in June.

In addition to seeking a change in the way the state uses data to measure student, teacher, and school performance, Mr. Schwarzenegger asked lawmakers to repeal California's charter school cap, expand public school choice, step up turnaround efforts for struggling schools, and enact alternative - pay plans for educators.