Sentences with phrase «at least some school choice»

Even in a time of great political polarization, at least some school choice policies have the potential to foster bipartisan collaboration.

Not exact matches

Every year at Liberty University at least some students, as do students at commencement ceremonies everywhere, express disagreement with the school's choice of speaker, but never has their discontentment been so amplified by both national media coverage and the power of social networking.

You can check out the salad bar, see what kinds of foods they are serving and — I think most elementary schools try to have volunteers there to help the kids make smarter choices and encourage the fruits and veggies; at least this is what my daughter's school told me - and you can see what the set - up is like.

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Most school lunches revolve around the traditional sandwich because it is easy to eat, but it is wise to move beyond this obvious choice at least some of the time.

I've always wondered why more schools (at least the ones with real kitchens) don't try beefing - up their paid selection with better and healthier choices to help offset the cost of providing a healthier free lunch program.

But it would at least give your food service leaders a chance to control the food choices Aramark is making, since the school district would be paying for all of the meal components by invoice, in addition to whatever management fees and per meal fees it has agreed to pay Aramark.

I also dislike the fact that two choices are offered each day and at least one is invariably the «junk food» item, making it that much harder to achieve student acceptance of anything new and healthier (see, «My Op - Ed in the Houston Chronicle — Improving School Food Is Only Half the Battle «-RRB-.

But at least some schools are finding children will eat healthier meals when offered a choice and take nutrition to heart if they are taught about the positive impacts on their bodies.

«More time for school lunches equals healthier choices for kids: Children are more likely to eat fruits and vegetables when given at least 25 minutes for lunch, according to a new study the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.»

For example, substituting at least one high - fat, high - sugar or high - salt food item with a healthier food choice in the school lunchbox each day might make a difference,» she says.

More than 30 percent of Americans live with at least one cat, and they re probably getting the same stress relief and happy - hormone release from their pet of choice that dog - owners get; there are simply fewer studies to prove it, says judge Alan Beck, ScD, director of the Center for Human - Animal Bond at the Purdue University School of Veterinary Medicine.

It isn't the holidays if I haven't watched at least one old school Christmas animation movie and countless versions of A Christmas Carol, all while eating my indulgent food choice of the moment.

Of course, they now face a Republican presidential administration more favorable to school choice and an education secretary who, at least according to the National Education Association (NEA), has «made a career trying to destroy neighborhood public schools.»

With the ascendance of Betsy DeVos and the passage of school - choice legislation in dozens of states around the country, for the time being at least, it appears that the school choice — first crowd has the upper hand.

This, argue proponents of single - sex schools, suggests that parents should at least be given a choice.

CMS conducted an extensive outreach campaign to ensure that choice was broad - based, and 95 percent of parents submitted at least one preferred school; parents could submit up to three (not including their neighborhood school).

«At least everyone is aware of what the policy is and can make wise choices and learn the benefits of attending school.»

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.

We haven't had the opportunity to study those questions in the United States when it comes to a private school choice program operating at scale, at least until very recently, when you had statewide programs adopted in Indiana and Louisiana.

Every voucher and tax - credit scholarship program is at least fiscally neutral, and most produce significant savings for school districts, according to the foundation, which supports vouchers and other forms of school choice.

The chief promise of choice, after all, was that it would displace ossified, monopolistic school bureaucracies, or at least inject into them a degree of flexibility, competition, and quality control.

Technology doesn't guarantee that good information will lead families to make educationally sound school choices but at least it removes the «How was I to know?»

Even before Villaraigosa pushed through public school choice, the district watched over 15 magnet schools with long waiting lists, and Cortines's pilot campuses were showing promising results, at least in terms of decentralizing school management.

But it at least suggests that we may have less to fear from school choice than from the continual struggle to establish one educational «faith» through the vehicle of the common school.

At least in theory, a few quality - conscious consumers can drive systemwide improvement and lead to a better matching of parents and schools, even in the absence of extensive choice activity.

So, the «assigned» school was the first choice for the vast majority of applicants and at least the first or second choice for all but a fraction of students.

At least 60 percent of rural families are within ten miles of intradistrict choice, interdistrict choice, and private schools, but urban families are more likely to have these choices close by.

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.

We estimate that, under an interdistrict choice policy, 54 percent of all families would have access to at least one out - of - district choice school within five miles.

Happily, the ranks are growing of those who recognize that curricular content and quality are at least as important to student learning as teacher quality, accountability, and school choice.

For example, expanding distance from one mile to five more than doubles the number of families who could gain access to a choice of at least two public schools under an intradistrict choice policy.

But we are asking schools to at least consider the Eco-Schools ethos in their buying choices, it is all part of the learning process that sits at the heart of the programme.

The School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school for at least three School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF) in New York City offered 1,300 scholarships worth up to $ 1,400 annually toward tuition at a private school for at least three school for at least three years.

Slate does get at least two things right: Sweden does have a private school choice program, introduced in 1992; and that nation's scores have been declining on the PISA test since the year 2000.

Despite the vast majority of randomized control trials (RCTs) of private school choice showing significant, positive test score effects for at least some subgroups of students, some of those gains have been modest and other effects have been null for at least some subgroups.

The figure represents an increase of 1,000 pupils who will not get their first choice compared to 2015, and means children in London are the least likely in the country to get a place at their preferred school.

At the very least all schools should to given the choice employ non-religious counsellors or welfare workers under this program, not just those that can not find a chaplain.

Somewhere in the middle of this policy debate, an estimated 600,000 students nationwide, at least this school year, are taking advantage of free tutoring from providers of their choice because they go to schools...

San Antonio's choice programs clearly benefit the most motivated and relatively advantaged families,» said Fuller, «These results suggest that school choice may inadvertently exacerbate stratification and inequality, as well as further isolate children who have the least support at home.»

The legislature's duty might be satisfied as long as students have a «genuine choice,» to borrow a phrase from Zelman, to attend at least one school that delivers a high - quality education.

At least six other programs, some of them dating to the 1970s, give participating students a free choice of public, private or religious schools.

Their conclusion: «at least for school choice programs, there is a weak relationship between impacts on test scores and later - life outcomes.»

Alabama's scholarship tax credit programs follow in the footsteps of at least six similar tax credits dating to the 1970s that give students a choice of public, private or religious schools, demonstrating that scholarship tax credits are constitutional.

In a sign of the changing school choice landscape, 26 percent of adults living with school - age children have educated at least one of their children in an alternative setting that was not a traditional public school.

Despite the perception that these major education reform foundations are focused on expanding school choice, at least with charters, their grantees appear to be devoting more energy to arguing for greater diversity.

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Notably, these are states that have had private school choice programs in place for at least a decade.

The Trump - DeVos budget threatens to exacerbate the budgetary challenge states face by cutting at least $ 3.6 billion from ESSA programs and $ 9 billion from the Department of Education overall while making an unprecedented investment in an ambiguous «school choice» program.

They brought with them pro-school choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operschool choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operSchool Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operschool run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.