Around 3,000 families and educators from northeast San Fernando Valley charter schools marched in support of expanding high quality schools, securing better facilities and protecting parent
choice in public education at last Saturday's «Rally in the Valley.»
Not exact matches
«
In contrast to medical opposition to home birth, almost all other maternity - related organizations (including nursing, midwifery,
public health, doulas, consumer advocacy and childbirth
education) support the
choice to give birth
at home» (Freeze, 2010, p 2 - 3).
Other research we have conducted
at the Center on Reinventing
Public Education in «high
choice» cities suggests this same general dynamic might explain the recent national slowdown
in charter growth.
Jewish Day school alumni attend their first -
choice college
at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a
public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence
in Jewish
Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.
I am a strong advocate of increased
choice for both parents and students as one important element of
public education in a free society, but Mr. Arons himself hints
at the quagmire of problems...
by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school
choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader
in the economics of
education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education at the Institute of
Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics
at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and
Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor
at the Institute of
Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief
education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer
in science
education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of
education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity
in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer
in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy
in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people
in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of
education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of
Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or
education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University o
education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation
at the Institute of
Education, University o
Education, University of London.
In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcome
In their work
at the Project for Policy Innovation
in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcome
in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers,
public school
choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.
The growth of for - profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school
choice movement, is rooted
in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize
public education, offering high quality
at reduced cost.
Alexandria, Va. (October 28, 2015)--
In its
at - a-glance overview, the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for
Public Education (CPE) looks
at the various forms of school
choice, and drawing upon relevant research and statistics, the effects each has on student achievement.
What started as an exciting interest
in public charter school performance eventually evolved into work
at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational
choice and reform initiatives
in K — 12
education.
May 19, 2016 by Brett Kittredge As the United States marks the 62nd anniversary of the landmark Brown vs. Board of
Education decision which declared state laws establishing separate
public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional, a new study looks
at the effect school
choice has had
in reducing racial segregation
in schools.
In the event that the complaint pertains to services received through Title I, such as but not limited to homeless students, private schools,
public school
choice or Supplemental
Education Services, the complainant will be referred to Michael Puntschenko, Director of Special Programs
at (315) 435-4140.
Sylvia Lazos, policy director
at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving
public education — called Nevada's school
choice law «the most radical voucher program
in the country.»
Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based
education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough
choice among
public, private and charter schools
in a city where attempts
at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.
-- Charter School Parent /
Public School Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school c
Public School Alumni As legislators are looking
at House Bills that will impact
education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional
public schools in the name of school c
public schools
in the name of school
choice.
It's a decision deeply rooted
in the politics of school
choice in Indiana and revolves around the administration of Democratic Mayor Bart Peterson, the first mayor given the authority to oversee the city's charter schools, says Claire Smrekar, a professor of
education and
public policy
at Vanderbilt University.
Parker Baxter, Director for
Education Policy Analysis, School of
Public Affairs,
at the University of Colorado Denver moderated a forum on the future of school
choice in Colorado on November 14th.
Complicating results
in the
education marketplace, some families haven't used their
choices as expected: Nearly 35 % of the approximately 6,700 students applying to transfer or enroll
at a
public school for the fall semester selected either D - or F - graded schools as their first pick, the Journal found.
For more than 40 years, Miami - Dade County
Public Schools has been
at the forefront of the
choice movement
in education.
Last week, American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten wrote a piece
in Huffington Post that typifies the union mentality, trashing school
choice, before donning the good - witch mask to end with «We are
at a pivotal moment — a moment when we must reclaim the promise of
public education without further detours, distractions and delays.»
Additional speakers include Gary Chartrand, chairman of the Florida State Board of
Education; Frank Biden, the president of Mavericks in Education and the brother of Vice President Joe Biden; Jeanne Allen, pioneering education reform champion and founder of The Center for Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austi
Education; Frank Biden, the president of Mavericks
in Education and the brother of Vice President Joe Biden; Jeanne Allen, pioneering education reform champion and founder of The Center for Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austi
Education and the brother of Vice President Joe Biden; Jeanne Allen, pioneering
education reform champion and founder of The Center for Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austi
education reform champion and founder of The Center for
Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austi
Education Reform; Wendy Howard, the founder and executive director of the Florida Alliance for
Choice in Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher at Highlands Park Elementary School in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School Choice Week and the former superintendent of public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austi
Education; Christie Bassett, 2015 Florida Teacher of the Year and a teacher
at Highlands Park Elementary School
in Polk County, Florida; Jason Fischer, member of the Duval County School Board; Lisa Graham Keegan, senior advisor to National School
Choice Week and the former superintendent of
public instruction for Arizona; and Randan Steinhauser, an advisor to National School
Choice Week, who will join the event live via satellite from Austin, Texas.
Requiring that municipalities begin to contribute to their students»
education at schools of
choice, including
public charter schools, is an important first step
in the right direction.
Jonathan Butcher,
education director
at the Goldwater Institute, a conservative advocacy group that promotes school
choice, praised the study's methodology, and said he wasn't surprised that
public school
choice had failed to produce benefits
in Chicago.
Robinson is a resident fellow
at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he works on
education policy issues including
choice in public and private schools, regulatory development and implementation of K - 12 laws, the role of for - profit institutions
in education, prison
education and reentry, rural
education, and the role of community colleges and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
in adult advancement.
At the DLC's national convention
in May of 1991, Bill Clinton and DLC delegates would endorse an
education agenda that included, among other things, school
choice, accountability, and Kolderie's idea, which the DLC explained as «giving entities other than school districts» the chance to operate
public schools.
Missing from the draft bill was portability for Title I funding, which would allow students
in impoverished families to use their federal
education funding
at any
public school of their
choice.
«The growth of for - profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school
choice movement, is rooted
in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize
public education, offering high quality
at reduced cost,» the article notes.
Lisa Graham Keegan is currently the principal partner
at the Keegan Company, where her major projects include serving as a senior advisor to National School
Choice Week, a celebration of all excellent
education options for students, and as the executive director of A for Arizona, a joint project of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that seeks to rapidly increase the number of «A» quality
public schools
in the state.
I probably cover Lakewood's morally and fiscally bankrupt schools too often, but this Ocean County school district that enrolls almost entirely Latino and Black low - income students pushes all my
education reform buttons: tyranny of the majority (
in this case the ultra-Orthodox residents who control the municipal government and the school board); lack of accountability; lack of school
choice for poor kids of color but anything goes (
at public expense) for children of the ruling class; discrimination against minority special
education students.
In its
at - a-glance overview, the National School Boards Association's (NSBA), Center for
Public Education (CPE) looks
at the various forms of school
choice, and drawing upon relevant research and statistics, the effects each has on student achievement.
The study of the Milwaukee Parental
Choice voucher program concluded: «
In sum, our five years of research on the MPCP [Milwaukee voucher program] suggests that students with disabilities are classified and served differently in the private and public education sectors in Milwaukee, and that the MPCP serves students with disabilities at about two - fifths to three - quarters the rate of MPS [Milwaukee public schools].&raqu
In sum, our five years of research on the MPCP [Milwaukee voucher program] suggests that students with disabilities are classified and served differently
in the private and public education sectors in Milwaukee, and that the MPCP serves students with disabilities at about two - fifths to three - quarters the rate of MPS [Milwaukee public schools].&raqu
in the private and
public education sectors
in Milwaukee, and that the MPCP serves students with disabilities at about two - fifths to three - quarters the rate of MPS [Milwaukee public schools].&raqu
in Milwaukee, and that the MPCP serves students with disabilities
at about two - fifths to three - quarters the rate of MPS [Milwaukee
public schools].»
Before his work
at Trinity, he was a Senior Policy Fellow
in K - 12
Education for CT Voices for Children where he published reports on Connecticut's testing system, public school choice, and K - 12 education data an
Education for CT Voices for Children where he published reports on Connecticut's testing system,
public school
choice, and K - 12
education data an
education data and policy.
Wisconsin — and,
in particular, urban Milwaukee — has been
at the forefront of a half - century of
public education experiments, from desegregation and «school
choice» to vouchers and charter schools.
Particularly for school
choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster
at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that
choice alone will lead to improvements
in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American
public education.
The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe
in «
choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and,
in good time, the
public money will come rolling
in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers
at the State Department of
Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.
Every student
in America has local access to
at least 3 quality
public education options that represent different pedagogical models and true
choice for a variety of learners.
Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live
in towns that don't have district
public schools to receive their per - pupil
education tax dollars to pay tuition
at a neighboring town's
public school or a private school of their
choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.
The reality is Indiana's school
choice programs offer thousands of Hoosier families an opportunity to find an
education for their children that might better match their needs — and
at lower cost than educating those children
in public schools.
The numbers, distributed
at recent speeches by Mecklenburg County attorney Richard Vinroot, a former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate who's a major figure
in North Carolina's school
choice movement, claim that the state's charters serve a greater percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as well as special
education classes than do traditional
public schools.
Scott Schroder, who taught science
at a
choice school
in Racine last year, said he thought some of his students lacked special
education support that would have been legally required
in a
public school.