Sentences with phrase «choice initiatives»

There is nothing neutral about arguments that we should suspend efforts to study the effects of school choice initiatives.

Other choice initiatives have left these students and their families behind.

How can today's choice initiatives better meet the needs of students, families and communities?

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

For the simple reason that all of the existing domestic choice initiatives are quite small, we still know very little about the systemic effects of vouchers on existing public and private schools.

Do school choice initiatives really benefit students and schools?

But broader changes that have been discussed, like a major school choice initiative, would require congressional action and therefore take more time.

LFC supports a wide range of educational choice initiatives by building strong legislative coalitions and working closely with allies.

LFC supports a wide range of school choice initiatives by building strong legislative coalitions and working closely with allies.

One federal choice initiative is likely, however: a revived voucher system for the District of Columbia public schools.

The Institute for Urban Indigenous Health's (IUIH) Deadly Choices initiative provides an example of a strengths - based approach to health promotion (McPhail - Bell, 2014).

Even worse, NCLB, far from unleashing major new choice initiatives as was originally hoped, is instead threatening the future of many struggling urban charter schools.

«I've been a long supporter of pro choice initiatives going way, way back, and I always will be.»

School choice programs which allow parents to select the schools their children attend deepen educational inequality and fail to yield consistent learning gains, according to nine studies of choice initiatives coordinated by researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Riley offers the District of Columbia Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) as an example of a school - choice initiative denounced by «liberals.»

At a hearing of the House Early Childhood, Youth, and Families Subcommittee, Mr. Gingrich said his goals for the year are to pass three separate choice initiatives.

The right's divide over whether Congress should craft a big school - choice initiative reflected a split between those with a choice - centric view of education policy and those who tend to see things through the lens of oft - bitter experience with Washington.

Despite that controversy, a plurality of the general public supports choice initiatives.

Lastly, there must be an assurance that funding for school choice initiatives results in an equitable distribution of resources across participating schools, with those schools serving students with the most intensive needs receiving resources proportionate to that challenge.

Trump's running mate, Mike Pence, supported many school choice initiatives during his time as Indiana governor.

Lawrence Hedges of the University of Chicago, in a recent report on education research, identified the basic problem facing policymakers who are considering choice initiatives.

New evidence has been collected from publicly funded voucher programs in Florida and Cleveland; new findings from randomized field trials conducted in New York City, Dayton, Charlotte, and Washington, D.C., are now available; and a growing body of evidence collected abroad provides a comparative perspective on the probable effects of large - scale choice initiatives.

But she has been careful not to embrace union rhetoric when talking about the contentious Obama school accountability and choice initiatives proving popular with voters.

The Walton Family Foundation is known for funding school choice initiatives around the country.

I thank the committee for passing my legislation that builds upon school choice initiatives run by states like Arizona, Mississippi and Florida, that empower low - income families to send their kids to a school of their choice — including charter schools, distance learning, and special needs classes.»

The results are often used to support or oppose choice in general or specific choice initiatives under consideration or adopted by state legislatures and even school boards.

What's more, an analysis of data from the 2010 - 11 academic year found that «all but one of the new charter schools authorized by the Los Angeles School Board during the first phase of its Public School Choice initiative outperformed similar new schools run by LAUSD.»

The Freedom and Choice initiative does not affect their Teachers» Pension, but may affect any other pension savings a teacher has.

Not surprisingly, low - income and minority families who currently have the fewest educational options express the most support for educational choice initiatives.

Nevada's program, billed as the largest private school choice initiative in the country, cleared funding eligibility for all of the state's public school students, although recent Democratic wins in the state stymied its progress.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

Regardless, these issues are likely to come up again no matter which education issue next receives prolonged or intense consideration — ESSA implementation, federal choice initiatives or something entirely different.

IUIH's Deadly Choices initiative is an umbrella for its health promotion activities.

President - elect Trump offered few specifics about his education policy during the campaign other than promising $ 20 billion in federal money for school choice initiatives in response to our «failing government schools.»

In reality the question of whether the longer - term benefits outweigh the potential costs of interventions that shift where students go to school applies as well to early childhood, elementary, and secondary school choice initiatives.

Cybercharter advocates and entrepreneurs are not surprised at the criticism (and lawsuits, nearly all of which have been unsuccessful) they have been handed from public school districts, Democratic legislators resistant to educational choice initiatives, and teachers unions.

Most education reformers didn't see Illinois as ground zero for a major school - choice initiative.

But it was Mr. Carlson's controversial school - choice initiative that took top billing in the speech.

The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the proliferation of high school exit exams, the success of school choice initiatives, and a dozen other smaller if more bitter battles, education has become one of the hottest policy topics in Washington.

With the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the proliferation of high school exit exams, the success of school choice initiatives, and a dozen other smaller if more bitter battles, education has become one of the hottest policy topics in Washington.

Meanwhile, when it comes to statewide private - school choice initiatives, the impacts on student outcomes are mixed and experts disagree on the best path forward.

By mid-summer, Flores and Villaraigosa were ready to hatch their charter - and - choice initiative, at first urging the school board to hand off 50 recently opened campuses to charter firms and nonprofit reform groups.

As NPR's Anya Kamenetz notes, Donald Trump asked Congress to pass a school choice initiative in his speech Tuesday night, but he did not say anything about how the program could be funded.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

Significant changes have been made to the Teachers» Pension Scheme, but also there have been changes to the way that pensions can be accessed in the form of the Freedom and Choice initiative and also the new State Pension that replaces the current two tier Basic State Pension and Additional State Pension.

Broad has nine separate school - choice initiatives.

However, the administration's rhetorical support for school - choice initiatives should bolster such efforts in the states.