Sentences with phrase «choice in the public education»

Cuomo continues to push for accountability and choice in public education — even if, in the face of union opposition, he doesn't get all that he wants.

Magnet and charter schools represent a positive step towards choice in public education.

«This is about parental choice in public education,» education committee chairwoman Sen. Gloria Romero, D - Los Angeles, said about the compromise she helped negotiate.

Tom Luna, Idaho Supt. of Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice in public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.»

But charter laws were also created to increase innovation and choice in public education.

«Voters are eager to elect candidates who recognize that parents want choice in public education, and we're glad that so many newspaper editorial boards agree.»

«We are very disappointed in today's vote, as it is out of touch with the increase in demand by parents and communities across the state to open charter schools for better choices in public education.»

Broadly speaking, do parents need more choice in public education?

TCSA and the students of Texas have benefited from his leadership and commitment to provide Texas families a choice in public education to best meet the needs of their children.

Alas, Alabama must survive another year without parental choice in public education.

We're still challenged to work with stakeholders — really parents, people who are making choices in public education — to fully understand how this is all working.

«Charter schools in California are committed to these goals, and to offer students and parents quality choices in public education to ensure that every student is receiving the education they need and deserve.»

Parents who wanted a choice in public education had no other choice but to ask the state to authorize Tangi Academy as an independent, Type 2 charter school.

Despite the rain in L.A., families marched through the streets to demand their right to choice in public education.

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.»

Bruce, the «hype and hoopla» Caroline usually refers to are some high profile charter schools that have touted successes not necessarily deserved, though other pro-reform issues are also part of her agenda to impugn any efforts to create more parental choice in public education.

Charter schools, which are tuition - free and open to all students, offer quality and choice in the public education system.

They offer quality and choice in the public education system and have the freedom to be more innovative while being held accountable for helping students learn and achieve.

The Magnet Schools Assistance Program Technical Assistance Center (MSAP Center) supports the U.S. Department of Education Office of Innovation and Improvement as it provides equity and choice in public education through the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP).

North Star Charter School was established in 2003 as a K - 8 charter school to provide parents with an alternative choice in public education.

Not exact matches

We see parental school choice (even vouchers) emerging as real possibilities as Americans see a moral vacuum in public education.

On a number of specific policies, notably parental choice in education, and, more important, on principles regarding the right ordering of religion and public life, JCS is usually and sometimes harshly opposed to the position of the Catholic Church.

Meanwhile, the Republican Party has in recent decades become the champion of the Church's public priorities — the protection of innocent human life, parental choice in education, the defense of marriage, church - state cooperation, and an array of issues under the rubric of religious freedom.

One's familial education choices don't have to equate to isolation from engagement in our public schools, says Andrea Reyes Ramirez, the executive director of the Faith and Education Coalition for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Coeducation choices don't have to equate to isolation from engagement in our public schools, says Andrea Reyes Ramirez, the executive director of the Faith and Education Coalition for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership CoEducation Coalition for the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

«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).

Of course, it is true that population growth of any kind puts pressure on infrastructure, but in reality falling investment in public services represents a political choice by the current Conservative government, which has opted to spend the tax revenues generated by immigrants and refugees on tax cuts for businesses and reducing the deficit rather than expanding healthcare and education provision.

Too often, she said, receiving a good public school education can come down to «the luck of the draw» in the regional school choice lottery.

Samantha Nephew spoke of her concern for public education, in light of Trump's choice to lead that department.

«It affords parents a choice especially in districts where the public education system is failing them and there kids.

She, and her terrible choices for Commissioner, have intentionally set out to destroy public education in our state.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

«Undermining public education is not a choice,» Senator Patty Murray said in a speech Wednesday, railing against the education secretary's policies.

But all Democrats — and all defenders of public education — should steadfastly oppose this nomination, even those who believe in «school choice.»

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.

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 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 theiEducation 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 theieducation dollars to give parents the right to send their child to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choicechoice.

He now represents a half - dozen interest groups, including Alliant Energy, which spent $ 194,000 on lobbying in the 2011 - 12 legislative session; School Choice Wisconsin, which supports public spending on private schools and has another former Assembly speaker, John Gard, on its lobby payroll; and the Wisconsin Council for Independent Education, which represents for - profit colleges.

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

As the debate over school choice heats up once again, in the halls of Congress and in many state capitals, a favorite gambit of defenders of the status quo is to damn such changes as «sure to undermine public education» or «bad for the public schools.»

But in the evolving landscape of public education, with ever - present conversations about school choice and concerns about school quality, that is changing.

This book is a terrific contribution to our understanding of the role of choice, equity, social entrepreneurialism, philanthropy, and the «public» in public education.

Within K - 12 education, it seems to me that any study of school choice environments should include an analysis of civil society and the role it plays in enabling the delivery of high - quality public education.

After an emotional and confusing debate during the nea's annual convention here in July, delegates voted overwhelmingly to oppose mandatory choice measures on the grounds that they would compromise the union's commitment to «free, equitable, universal, and quality public education for every student.»

In 2017, the New Mexico Public Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter school moratorium by noting, «The families of New Mexico continue to seek alternative, quality choices for the education of their Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter school moratorium by noting, «The families of New Mexico continue to seek alternative, quality choices for the education of their education of their children.

Some view school choice as a social good in and of itself, while others may have indirect objectives, such as funneling public funds to religious schools or privatizing public education.

All you need to know about NEA's position on charter schools is actually contained in the original 2001 policy, which states that charters should not exist «simply to provide a «choice» for parents who may be dissatisfied with the education that their children are receiving in mainstream public schools.»

President - elect Donald Trump's selection of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education has renewed the debate about public accountability in school - choice programs.

As a long - time student of school choice (and, full disclosure, an adviser to Romney's education team) I anticipate the governor is in for a bit of moral outrage — for undermining, threatening, jeopardizing, disrespecting — or, insert verb of offense here — our nation's public schools.

Scholars focused on higher education generally post low scores, and seem to be quoted much less frequently than K - 12 scholars — though it's not clear whether that's because there's less interest in and opportunity for public discussion of higher education, or a choice that these scholars are making.

In October 2002, the federal Department of Education distributed nearly $ 24 million in grants to Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, and districts in six other states to expand their public school choice programIn October 2002, the federal Department of Education distributed nearly $ 24 million in grants to Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, and districts in six other states to expand their public school choice programin grants to Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, and districts in six other states to expand their public school choice programin six other states to expand their public school choice programs.