Sentences with phrase «choice laws»

For example, although there are no longer laws that allow racial segregation, a state's housing and school choice laws affect the student demographics of schools.

Of those, 22 found that the performance of students at district schools improved after a school choice law was enacted.

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If resources were what drove performance, then at about $ 30,000 per pupil, Washington, D.C.'s district schools would be among the best in the nation instead of the worst (though they have made significant gains since the advent of school choice laws in the city).

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.

The legal battle over Nevada's school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state's highest court in a case being watched around the country.

Fortunately there have been 23 empirical studiesinvestigating the impact of school choice laws on the students at district schools.

For the sake of the world's poor, let's hope Pearson has as much success creating parental choice laws as they have creating new schools.

Her hire further boosts our growth and adds to our vision to be the first choice law firm in London's West End.»

Even as New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer announced an audit of the city BOE and many New Yorkers complained about laws keeping them from casting their ballots, more than 2 million voters across New York State made their choices

Another school choice law passed in Nevada with no Democratic support.

The Laws prescribe: • How humans (and Jews) should become and behave by free choice The Laws of Torah are Ideas They expect fulfillment They are Potential The Laws of Torah depend on their human Interpretation • They are explored and ruled by authority and majority.

Other Detroit families, around 14 percent, take advantage of Michigan's interdistrict choice law that allows them to send their children to nearby suburban schools.

If minority leaders can be weaned away from traditional alliances, the underlying public support will translate into effective legislative action, especially if choice laws focus on schools in urban areas.

While school - choice laws arrived en masse in 2011, and the laws that passed are bolder than ever, lawsuits keep the systemic change reformers hope for just out of reach.

School - choice laws also passed in Wisconsin, Washington, D.C, Oklahoma, and Ohio, some as new reforms and some that expanded existing options.

School - choice laws took great strides in 2011, both in the number of programs that succeeded across states and also in the size and scope of the adopted programs.

Bolick has defended school - choice laws around the country, from Arizona to Ohio to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In 2012, bills failed in Arizona and Florida, two states that, historically, have been receptive to school - choice programs (the two states have nearly a dozen choice laws between them).

The review found that school choice laws actually enhance civic values and practices:

Educational choice laws like ESAs break the link between education and housing — and low - income families have the most to gain.

Allying with suburban white conservatives, Williams and her coalition fought for and helped pass the most sweeping school choice law at the time.

In December, Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, voiced support for educational choice, saying, «I would be interested in signing the most pro-school choice law that arrives on my desk.»

The Task Force recommends that universities and law faculties move to reconfigure the faculty role and promote change in faculty culture, so as to support whatever choices law schools make to adapt to the changing environment in legal education.

In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court of Nevada yesterday upheld the constitutionality of the nation's most expansive educational choice law

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Ed Week takes a look at the new school choice law in Arizona.

CARSON CITY — The legal battle over Nevada's school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state's highest court in a case being watched around the country, though resolution could be weeks or months away.

The District of Choice law was meant to encourage districts to compete for students by offering innovative programs and this - school - fits - my - child options that parents want.

If SB 193 is passed by the House (it cleared the Senate in March), it would be one of the most expansive school choice laws in the country.

And empirical research suggests that educational - choice laws are less likely to be over-regulated when they are privately funded.

While government - funded voucher laws have had a mixed record in state courts, educational - choice laws that are privately funded through tax credits have a perfect constitutional record thus far.

The choice law isn't entirely popular with choice - district parents either, especially if they see transfer students taking seats in popular programs.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Florida's Sun - Sentinel editorialized in favor of the Florida teachers union's lawsuit against the Sunshine State's most popular school choice law.

The new law is easily the most aggressive school choice laws to date, leapfrogging Arizona's 2011 program, which still restricts access to certain categories of students.

As I noted at the outset, the Wall Street Journal declared 2011 «The Year of School Choice» after 13 states enacted new school choice laws or expanded existing ones.

However, proponents of the choice laws disagree with that interpretation.

Nevertheless, the school - choice laws that passed in 2011 were a departure from previous reforms in both size and scope.

Success implementing new school - choice laws in 2011 must be considered state by state.

By the time the ball dropped in Times Square, 15 states had adopted 21 new or expanded educational choice policies, and courts rejected challenges to choice laws in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

But she should not ignore that Indiana's proud history includes enacting two educational choice laws that help tens of thousands of students attend the schools of their choice.

The ACLU has taken a similar tact in issuing anti-charter «reports» in other states, with the unspoken intent to roll - back school - choice laws and undermine the ability of families to determine what school is best for their children.

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.»

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.