Sentences with phrase «allowing more school choice»

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The industry has taken significant measures to provide consumers with more options and information to allow informed dietary choices through developing reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, voluntarily displaying kilojoule information on the front of labels and restricting sales of regular kilojoule soft drinks in schools.

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I was traveling to all day yesterday for a media appearance (more on that when I'm allowed to share), which was extremely frustrating because all I wanted to be doing was speaking with school food sources to get their reaction to USDA's announcement about school choice and pink slime.

«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).

Both emphasize decentralizing authority to the school level, giving more options to parents, and allowing taxpayer dollars to follow students to the publicly funded schools of their choice.

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.

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

What has made the school choice movement successful is not allowing peripheral issues — however important they are — to interfere with our work to help as many families and children as possible access more and better educational options.

The promise of a personalized education system is enormous: we are witnessing an era when new school models and structures, often supported by technology, can tailor learning experiences to each student and allow students more choice in how they access and navigate those experiences.

Although the promise and potential of parental choice is nowhere more evident than in the realm of technology, the arguments for allowing students ready access to cyberschools extend to interdistrict school choice, charter schools, private schools, and vouchers as well.

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.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.

Even with a Democratic president who strongly supports the charter model, and congressional leadership pre-disposed to choice and innovation; even with more money and muscle behind our movement than ever before, efforts to expand innovation and opportunity in states that already allow both, or to seed new schooling innovations to suburban areas have been roundly routed across the country.

In this new political climate, debates about private - school choice have become less about ideology and more about practical considerations, such as which students will be eligible, which schools will be allowed to participate, and how schools should be held accountable.

School choice would allow teachers more opportunities to teach in environments that are not easily unionized — public charter schools, parochial schools, private schools, and virtual schools.

We need to allow more genuinely vocational options and reward schools for making that curriculum choice.

Said President and CEO Al Dubin, «This grant will allow CSDC to support more charter school founders dedicated to improving the educational outcomes of the children in their communities by providing quality educational choice in a responsive, fiscally sustainable way.»

Education Secretary Michael Gove argues that allowing good schools to expand will create more good school places, and so increase choice.

If the vote is against reform, allowing parents to have the choice of charter schools will become even more essential.

Recognized as a national model and the best example of public - private partnership in Pennsylvania, the EITC program has allowed more than 40,000 students to attend the school of their choice in this school year alone, and hundreds of public school initiatives would have gone unfunded without this program.

In September, Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board member Steve Zimmer proposed a resolution that would limit parent choice by not allowing any new charters and adding more bureaucracy on existing charter schools.

A school with a traditional structure that provides clear standards and expectations may be a good choice for some children, while a school that allows extra freedom and places more responsibility for learning on the child may work well for other children.

Rather, the information will be used to more precisely communicate the work of schools and to allow district and school leaders to better allocate energy and resources toward improvement, support teachers to advocate for the working conditions and resources they need to do their work well, and empower parents to make informed choices when selecting schools for their children.

Louisiana's Course Choice program allows more than 19,000 students to select from hundreds of online and face - to - face courses not offered by traditional schools.

This type of school choice quickly and effectively allows more families to access the multitude of learning options available and, thus, customize their education.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system.»

Our antiquated education delivery system should be allowed to evolve from a «school system» to a «system of schools», with comprehensive traditional public school choice, expanded charter school capability, access to more choices for special needs children, and a fully paid exit option for students in failing schools.

For school choice to work, Butcher said, policymakers should give families vouchers to attend private schools, and allow more charter schools to open.

The StrIDe program from MTA allows high school students to use their student ID card to ride an MTA bus free of charge, making school choice more accessible for some families.

All of those students were able to succeed as a result of states that allowed for education freedom, and according to DeVos, the Trump administration's new school - choice agenda will give even more American children access to that freedom, too.

A study released earlier this month suggests that the district is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy in large part because of state policies regarding school finance and «choice» — i.e., allowing more and more charter schools — and not because of «poor decisions» by local officials.

This allows families with more modest incomes to access more and diverse schooling options for their children, a luxury only affluent families could enjoy before educational choice began to take hold in the states.

Slowly change existing neighborhood school boundaries so that they cover more mixed income housing and / or can allow for more students to choice in from outside the boundary.

ESSA continues many of the assessment provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, but allows states to exercise considerably more choice and control over their school accountability systems.

Annual parental choice survey finds an overwhelming majority of parents approve of academic gains and support Louisiana's school choice program More than 91 percent of parents participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program say they are satisfied with every aspect of the program, which allows students to escape failing or underperforming schools by switching to the -LSB-...]

Cantor said Wednesday that he wants more «school choice» — allowing parents to pull students from weak public schools and enroll them in a better traditional, charter or private school, with tuition ideally paid with federal money.

Board group's agenda: The Florida Coalition of School Board Members» agenda for the 2018 Legislature includes expanding school choice by creating a scholarship for bullied students to attend private schools, using paper and pencil testing through the 8th grade, allowing SAT and ACT scores to be used in place of state assessments as a requirement for high school graduation, andSchool Board Members» agenda for the 2018 Legislature includes expanding school choice by creating a scholarship for bullied students to attend private schools, using paper and pencil testing through the 8th grade, allowing SAT and ACT scores to be used in place of state assessments as a requirement for high school graduation, andschool choice by creating a scholarship for bullied students to attend private schools, using paper and pencil testing through the 8th grade, allowing SAT and ACT scores to be used in place of state assessments as a requirement for high school graduation, andschool graduation, and more.

Making the case that choice allows for all families, poor or middle class, to meet the particular needs of their children can win support, especially from white middle class families who realize that how they are hurt by school zones and other Zip Code Education policies (and are also condescended by teachers and school leaders when they want more for their kids), but don't see any other way to avoid those problems beyond paying for private schools out their own pockets.

Annual parental choice survey finds a majority of parents approve of academic gains and support Louisiana's school choice program More than 93 percent of parents participating in the Louisiana Scholarship Program say they are satisfied with every aspect of the program, which allows students to escape underperforming schools by attending the participating private school of -LSB-...]

Every study ever conducted on school choice programs in America has found they improve integration by allowing children to move from more segregated schools to more integrated schools.

The second steps lies in providing more - comprehensive information on schools that will allow families to make smarter choices.

Backers of vouchers, who tend to be Republicans, argue that they give more educational choices, allowing children the opportunity to receive a better education than they might in public schools.

The Trump administration has floated an offer to allow even more families access to charter schools, among other choices such as private - school vouchers and tax credits.

At the Boomer & Echo blog, financial planner Marie Engen mentions my own preferred term Findependence and offers her take on it: «Financial independence means you have sufficient resources to give you the freedom of choice, to sustain a lifestyle that allows you to pursue whatever truly makes you happy — to leave a high stress job for a lower paying one that's more satisfying, take some time off for whatever reason, go back to school, or write a screenplay.»