Sentences with phrase «charter school of choice»

By entering the contest, you could be one of three winners to receive a cash prize for yourself and a California Charter School of your choice.

Earlier this year, James E. Ryan wrote for The New York Times» Campaign Stops blog that the presidential hopeful's platform would all but eliminate school district boundaries, allowing low income and disabled students to attend the public or charter school of their choice.

Coastal Academy is a dynamic, tuition - free public charter school of choice serving grades TK - 8.

Because we are part of the public charter school of choice, there is no tuition to attend our school.

Video Contest» will also be announced with $ 23,000 in prize money awarded to them and a charter school of their choice.

(The old school was K - 8; fifth -, sixth -, and seventh - graders were given preference to enroll in the district or charter school of their choice via Newark's common enrollment system.)

The first prize winner of the contest will be awarded a $ 5,000 prize and $ 10,000 donation to the California charter school of their choice.

Public charter schools are meeting tremendous public demand, and 185,000 Arizona students now attend a charter school of their choice.

Despite the challenges, all Arizona Legislators have constituents attending a public charter school of choice.

Not exact matches

Redirects education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.

Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Even as the availability and popularity of charter schools, vouchers, and homeschooling increases, there are enormous pockets of students who, for a variety of reasons, have only one choice for schooling.

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

«We think of the educational choice movement as involving many parts: vouchers and tax credits, certainly, but also virtual schools, magnet schools, homeschooling, and charter schools,» she said in a 2013 interview.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

School choice: Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat who is the former superintendent of Denver Public Schools and a supporter of the charter school sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfoSchool choice: Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat who is the former superintendent of Denver Public Schools and a supporter of the charter school sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfSchools and a supporter of the charter school sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfoschool sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfschools are underperforming.

Cuomo should focus on increasing the discretion principals have to remove bad teachers — and on giving kids the choice to get out of classrooms with poor teachers by going to charter schools.

He supports charter schools, school choice within a district, and «money follows the child,» a program in which students who attend magnet or charter schools bring education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

The parents, volunteer members of StudentsFirstNY's grassroots organizing effort, demanded greater school choice for Queens, the borough with the fewest charter schools per student.

The idea of charter schools is that competition and choice makes all schools stronger.

And why are you so afraid of the choices that Charter Schools give to parents?

«We want to give parents the ability to have choice and to choose based on their interests and the success of a school, whether it's a charter school or a non-charter school,» Walcott told NY1.

But President Donald Trump's choice of Betsy DeVos, a longtime advocate of school privatization, as his education secretary has made charters — and anything remotely resembling «school choice» — increasingly toxic for Democrats.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

His slur of choice for Schools Chancellor (and eloquent charter - school advocate) Joel Klein: «numbnuts.»

At 11:30 a.m., Lhota will hold a press conference with charter school parents to condem de Blasio's «anti-school choice positions,» corner of First Avenue and East 120th St., Manhattan.

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In his «100 - day action plan to Make America Great Again,» Trump announced the School Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cSchool Choice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cChoice and Education Opportunity Act, which, among other proposals, would redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their cschool of their choicechoice.

James Merriman, CEO of the New York City Charter School Center, wrote in a statement that de Blasio's decision was a «disappointment for the students and their parents who have been looking forward to attending the school of their choice this fall.&School Center, wrote in a statement that de Blasio's decision was a «disappointment for the students and their parents who have been looking forward to attending the school of their choice this fall.&school of their choice this fall.»

Foley's education plan includes policies such as school choice within a district and «money follows the child» - a program where students who attend magnet or charter schools bring the education funding with them instead of sharing it with their old school district.

Flanagan's «political» interest is in boosting educational choice in the form of charters and other alternative schools.

Families for Excellent Schools organized similar rallies in 2013 and 2014 to promote school choice and the growth of publicly funded, privately run charter sSchools organized similar rallies in 2013 and 2014 to promote school choice and the growth of publicly funded, privately run charter schoolsschools.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

A former councilwoman from Manhattan, Ms. Moskowitz could have been a natural choice for a hodgepodge of communities frustrated by Mr. de Blasio, including white voters in Manhattan who have soured on the mayor, business leaders who have long viewed Mr. de Blasio with hostility and a diverse set of charter - school parents across the city.

The eight schools are all college preparatory schools of choice — public and public charters — with student populations ranging from 300 to 600.

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

This was, in my view, just the latest salvo in a continuing barrage of assaults against charter schools by critics of choice.

While they didn't get any of their top choices, there was a spot at a recently opened charter school that they were interested in.

I've identified 10 rigorously designed studies of charter and private school choice programs with later life outcomes.

«First - generation» choice programs such as open enrollment, magnet and charter schools, and voucher plans have indeed increased the number of schooling options available.

For example, a quarter of a state's grade is based on having public - school choice and charter schools.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

But today, charter schools enroll about 30 percent of Newark's students citywide, making Newark one of the nation's several «high - choice» cities: places where charter schools are in the mainstream, not on the margin.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

A cursory tour of the guidebook will leave the reader wiser about the distinctive characteristics of charter schools (autonomous, accountable, choice - based), its innovations (longer days and years, new approaches to staffing), and key strengths (increasing parental engagement, empowering educators).

The five other categories of obstructive responses observed are: 1) excessively denying charter applications, 2) creating legal obstacles to charter schools, 3) freezing or delaying payments to charter schools, 4) withholding information from charter schools, and 5) using regulations to restrict choice or interfere with competition.

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

In fact, there is substantial evidence that escape from the harmful effects of ability tracking in the district schools is a major factor driving disadvantaged families to charter schools and private school choice.