Moving forward, both the RSD and OBSP in New Orleans should work toward providing more comprehensive resources for families to understand what schools will work best with their student's IEP and additional needs to ensure the ability of special education students to equitably
benefit from school choice.
Florida Federation for Children, Florida Education Empowerment PAC along with our national organization, American Federation for Children, congratulate all the winners who stand with the hundreds of thousands of children who
benefit from school choice in Florida.
Now, because of IJ's persistence and advocacy, the program may proceed and thousands of North Carolina families can
benefit from school choice.
That is, the evidence suggests that both students who exercise choice and students who remain in public schools
benefit from school choice programs.
Your opinion is one - sided and lacks authority to support your assertion that Latino students do not
benefit from school choice.
A: As a teacher
I benefit from school choice by having the ability to work in a school environment where the achievement gap is most prominent.
Those who would directly
benefit from school choice programs overwhelmingly support having the option.
Bottom line: just about everybody would
benefit from school choice and lawmakers need to understand that.
I have come to see that the main
benefit from school choice is not simply increased competition among schools.
As someone who has
benefitted from school choice thanks to my parents
Second, many studies of particular countries have found
benefits from school choice.
The parent's own education of the choice process plays a fundamental role in navigating the system and will substantially impact the chances of the child (ren)
benefitting from the school choice process.
Not exact matches
Because of our work, 18,000 American
schools are providing kids with healthy food
choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have
benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.
Children who like or
benefit from a lot of structure may struggle to learn in a Montessori or Waldorf
school, as both of those philosophies place emphasis on child
choice rather than rigid classroom structures.
Choices for parents who think their kids might
benefit from a special program at a
school in a nearby
school district: In California, some
school districts where enrollment was dropping are taking advantage of the state's District of
Choice law, which allows districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and options that parents want.
Charter
schools offer the illusion of getting the
benefits from choice without too much of the messiness of markets.
Could they be convinced that they, too, stand to
benefit from expanded
school choice?
School choice will ultimately prevail or disappear based on how it affects entire urban populations, not just the small group of students who
benefit directly
from being able to attend private
schools tuition - free.
And the beauty of expanding
school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that
benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their
choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate
choice families pushing for more
choices.
[3] Just as voucher holders may
benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in
school choice systems with limited information about high - performing
schools could
benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.
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.
From creating tradable «enrollment rights» to help integrate
schools to providing parents with better
school performance information, a new book that aims to stake out a middle ground in the debate over
school choice offers ways to enhance the
benefits while mitigating the risks.
Schools would
benefit from having quality
choices in this realm.
Taken together, this is compelling evidence that students
benefited from having a low - performing option eliminated
from their high -
school choice set.
Perhaps other groups would also
benefit from expanded
school choice.
Fifth, one little - noted
benefit of properly implemented common standards is a better - functioning education marketplace, in which parents will be able to make
choices about
schools on the basis of more accurate information about how
schools A's performance compares with that of
school B — not just within communities and states but also when considering a move
from state to state.
I know that I would have
benefitted from an understanding of how university teaching is different
from teaching at
school, or the skills I need for independent learning when picking my uni
choices.
Prior research by William Howell and Paul Peterson suggested that the reason low - income inner - city African Americans
benefit most
from private -
school choice is that moving to the new
school represents a more dramatic improvement in the
school environment for them than for less - disadvantaged white and Hispanic students.
Whether your sights are set on more rigorous academic standards, foolproof reading instruction, greater teacher effectiveness, expanded
school choice, overhauled governance, or almost anything else that would
benefit from big - time change, the challenge is huge.
Yes, I'm a big believer in the
benefits of empowering low - income families with educational
choice, but I'm not interested in having disadvantaged boys and girls transfer
from lousy district
schools to lousy private
schools.
This suggests a final potential interpretation of our results that is directly related to the
choice of grade configuration: students may
benefit from being among the oldest students in a
school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.
Families that participate in
school choice programs are not the only ones who
benefit from expanded educational options.
In addition to the non-fiscal
benefits attached to educational
choice, the program can relieve pressure for district budgets
from rising pension costs (for each one million dollars spent on the program, I estimated that the state would save almost half of that amount, while
school districts would save almost $ 700,000).
What's worse, a group I revered now discredits and insults millions of black families and educators whose lives have
benefitted from having
school choice.
That, coupled with her connections to various for - profit education entities that stand to
benefit from more
choice - driven
school systems, pretty much destroyed her credibility as a thoughtful, impartial leader of a high - stakes debate.
Today's NAACP
benefits from cash that comes
from large and powerful unions — most notably the teachers unions that without fail are trying to deny black and brown families the
benefits of
school choice.
We recognize that the
choice to enroll in a charter
school comes with a reasonable expectation that a student will
benefit from a
school's particular pedagogy and focus.
Using these measures, a near - consensus of the «gold standard» studies — those that employ random assignment to determine the causal impact of a policy — have found that students in a
school choice program
benefit academically
from the new setting.
Mr. Barbic said that Shelby County's
schools would prove the
benefits of
school choice, both for families and for teachers, enabling them to choose the best
school from a range of operators.
Corissa's older brother is also
benefiting from Louisiana's
school choice options.
«We know that
school choice has led to increased innovation and tangible
benefits for students, but we need to move
from pockets of innovation to widespread
choice if we want to see transformational improvement for all our
schools,» Enlow said.
School choice has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, with literally millions of students benefiting from the choice movement, precisely because most studies have shown that school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public sc
School choice has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, with literally millions of students
benefiting from the
choice movement, precisely because most studies have shown that
school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public sc
school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private
school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public sc
school scholarships, those who attend public charter
schools, and those who remain in traditional public
schools.
We know DeVos likes
choice, and only wealthy parents will be able to
benefit from a voucher, a nice tax break to a decent private
school.
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
That for some conservative reformers, most - notably
school choice activists, the fact that they also
benefit financially
from their work also makes matters difficult.
More than 8,700 students currently
benefit from the Louisiana Scholarship Program, Tuition Donation Credit Program and
School Choice Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities, which serves students with disabilities.
Far
from a dismissal of the public good, the vision for
school choice proponents is that increased competition in the marketplace will
benefit everyone.
More than 8,700 students currently
benefit from the Louisiana Scholarship Program, the Tuition Donation Rebate Program and the
School Choice Program for Certain Students with Exceptionalities.
Last month Rodriguez, an advocate for
school vouchers,
benefited from $ 45,645 spent on her behalf by the American Federation for Children, a national
school choice group headed by Michigan billionaire Betsy DeVos, whose husband, Dick DeVos is heir to the Amway fortune.
Ramona Carrasco is an Arizona Hispanic mother who not only supports
school choice, but her daughter is currently
benefiting from a
choice program this year.