Sentences with phrase «access to quality schools»

However, it can have the effect of reducing access to quality schools for low - income families.

Meanwhile, school districts are looking to deliver a student enrollment process that ensures equitable access to quality school options.

They will support improved access to quality schooling and better education outcomes for Indigenous secondary school students.

What can be done to ensure that all families have access to quality school options?

The projects provide access to quality school facilities for approximately 450 children at the primary school level.

It involves giving all students access to quality schooling.

By the same token, when kids get access to quality schools, they learn more.

But challenges remain in providing all children access to quality schools, in improving opportunities for young people, and in retaining middle - income families.

A unified enrollment system would streamline the school choice process for families, provide more equitable access to quality schools and increase the information available to families as they make choices about schools.

What feedback do you have for Educate78 about how to better move forward the cause of increasing access to quality school seats across Oakland's 78 square miles?

However, as state legislatures and the Trump administration look to grow school choice, we must commit to ensuring that increases in choice do not lead to decreases in access to quality schools for, or greater segregation of, students with disabilities.

, a document that forecasts enrollment, evaluates the SchoolChoice process, and looks at access to quality schools across the city.

Just after Groundhog Day last week, the Brookings Institution released its annual Education Choice and Competition Index report, grading 110 school districts on the degree to which they empower parents with easily accessible, broadly available, publicly funded school choices and the degree to which the choice system results in greater access to quality schools.

DPS released its Strategic Regional Analysis, a document that forecasts enrollment, evaluates the SchoolChoice process, and looks at access to quality schools across the city.

I agree with Bradford that single - site schools and small, locally grown and community - based networks are crucial assets for the charter movement and important contributors to expanding access to quality schools in communities that demand them.

Why are many students in New Jersey denied access to a quality school library media program?

GEO Foundation, as featured in Forbes Magazine, has been making access to quality schools a reality for children since 1998.

Unfortunately, program caps and limitations constrain supply and restrict access to quality schools by parents and students.

The rationale for granting school choice special treatment is simple: without access to quality schools, students have a higher chance of dropping out, dealing with family dysfunction, committing crimes or going to prison, failing to find employment, abusing drugs and alcohol, experiencing poor health, and having to cope with a variety of other social ills.

While correlational research finds that the odds of finishing high school are 50 percent lower for children with an incarcerated parent, parents who are in prison may have less education, lower income, more limited access to quality schools, and other attributes that adversely affect their children's success in school.

Every child in America deserves access to quality school choices.»

By placing all district and charter public schools into these quality tiers, the Association is now poised to investigate where students lack access to quality schools.

Denver and other Colorado school districts should be capitalizing on the benefits of socio - economic integration for all students by supporting similar policies that ensure equal access to quality schools for all students regardless of their family income or value of their home.

Newsom's top priorities are education and increasing affordable access to quality schools at all levels, economic development, creating jobs, reducing poverty, protecting the environment, and social justice.

(Dougherty, 2012, p. 216) These real - estate marketing tactics facilitated white flight and continuously segregated schools and unequal access to quality schools.

Yesterday, INCS Action, a recently launched organization focused on improving access to quality schools for Illinois families through the legislative and political process, was victorious in its first Illinois general election.

This or similar approaches (e.g., Kingsland's proposal to grant larger vouchers for at - risk students) are more likely to yield wider private school participation — and therefore greater access to quality schools — than a strict open admissions mandate.

«Today's data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction demonstrates the program is working, it's serving the needs of parents who want a better choice for their child and serving students by providing access to quality schools,» said Betsy DeVos, chairman of the American Federation for Children.

Her team works directly with hundreds of authorizers across the country to strengthen the field and the professionals working within it, so all students have access to quality school options.

It's time to move beyond the huge inequities that characterize Ontario students» access to quality school library programs, and help create a province of life - long readers.

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, GEO Foundation has been making access to quality schools a reality for children since 1998.

Charter public schools are a part of the solution to raising academic achievement and improving access to quality schools for all children in Illinois» public education system.

As a State Senator, I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

In a follow - up interview with Capital, addressing de Blasio's opposition to raising the cap, Tisch said she works well with the mayor and believes he agrees with her that every student should have access to a quality school.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

If we truly want all children to have access to quality schools, it is imperative that the quality schools have an incentive to expand, which means they need to be able to cover more than just the marginal cost of an additional student.

Mandating open admissions, like the prohibition against «topping off,» is intended to ensure all children have access to quality schools.

We hope to have the same effect in Connecticut and across the country when discussing barriers and access to quality schools.

Each of these regulations stem from perfectly reasonable and even admirable desires to give priority to the students who are most in need and to ensure that those students have access to quality schools.

And they need to be part of a broader constituency that demands — not just by voting with their feet but by collectively voicing their concerns — access to quality schools.

The Luminary structure allows DPS to focus on what should be the district's ultimate purpose which is making sure that all students have access to quality schools.

The grant also will fund two new efforts to provide more equitable access to quality schools and increase the information available to families as they make choices about schools:

CONNECTICUT CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS PARENT PLAINTIFFS DEMANDING ACCESS TO BETTER PUBLIC SCHOOL OPTIONS Federal lawsuit Martinez v. Malloy Challenges State Laws That Limit Connecticut Families» Access to Quality Schools

Ensure enrollment policies, practices and timelines maximize equitable access to quality schools and support the ability of schools to accurately budget and hire staff