Sentences with phrase «choice programs»

Negative initial findings in one or two locations, based solely on one performance metric, should not halt the creation or expansion of school choice programs in other parts of the country.

Notably, these are states that have had private school choice programs in place for at least a decade.

Funding for the Parental Choice Programs contain only one — direct state aid.

The effects of choice programs on educational attainment — how far an individual goes in school — are both larger and more consistent than their achievement effects.

There is clear evidence that students benefit by participating in educational choice programs.

What are the fiscal effects of school choice programs on public schools?

And they want a powerful regulator — a portfolio manager or harbor master — who will identify and remove bad schools from choice programs.

A private school choice program with a different design or that operated in a different context could well produce different results.

Thus, total expenditures on private school choice programs as a share of total resources devoted to public education nationwide is 0.4 percent.

State - supported course choice programs are designed to allow students to choose the course and provider that best meets their needs.

The nation's oldest school choice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrolled.

Families today face a growing range of opportunities to choose a best fit school from among multiple options — whether traditional district schools, magnet schools, charter schools, or other choice programs.

We've helped our readers see how many families are eligible for school choice programs across the country and those who actually participate.

It is the only federal education choice program in the country.

There's lots and lots of evidence that parents who participate in choice programs don't choose their schools based on academics.

We know precious little about what makes some private - school - choice programs more successful than others — and success itself can be defined in various ways.

The controlled open enrollment plan is in addition to the existing choice programs such as magnet schools, alternative schools, special programs, advanced placement, and dual enrollment.

The Truth: The majority of gold - standard studies of school choice programs find kids do better with school choice.

However, I found the design differences between various types of school choice programs provide insight into how regulatory structures placed on private schools can vary.

Studies show that school choice program participants perform as well as or better than their public school peers.

In addition, the best studies show school choice programs create better educational outcomes for the most disadvantaged students.

Find details about the various forms of private and public school choice programs offered in all 50 states.

Do means - tested choice programs serve only the most advantaged among the disadvantaged, or do they disproportionately attract disadvantaged students even among the eligible populations?

Nine out of the 10 studies that have been conducted report positive findings on the actual, real - world impact of school choice programs when it comes to ethnic segregation.

Such a policy would help support state and local choice programs without inserting the federal government into decisions about the design and operation of such programs.

They also found that some school - choice programs made significant improvements with graduation and college entrance without moving the needle on test scores.

For example, your first choice program will learn that you ranked it first, but will not see what program you ranked second, and so on.

This is the first study that has measured the long - term education outcomes for students in a private school choice program at the statewide level.

These controlled choice programs create diverse schools while also giving parents a say in where their children attend school.

Choice programs give interested families public education dollars, or vouchers, to send their kids to private schools.

My colleagues and I just released a meta - analysis of 19 «gold standard» experimental evaluations of the test - score effects of private school choice programs around the world.

It isn't supported by the evidence and would be detrimental to the hundreds of thousands of students participating in school - choice programs nationwide.

Our research focuses on how private school choice programs affect students, families, schools and communities.

When I read that, I think it implies we have evidence of at least one (1) school choice program increasing segregation somewhere.

Also, school choice programs including independent charter schools are funded at lower rates per student than traditional public schools.

Same happened in the two state wide choice programs 98 - 99 % of parents kept their kids in the local school.

As targeted school choice programs continue to expand, so does the number of students who can signal dissatisfaction with outdated or ineffective teaching and learning strategies by choosing to attend a different school.

Several gold - standard studies have found that school - choice programs result in students receiving at least the same, and often a better, education at a reduced cost to the state.

The achievement effects of choice programs after just one or two years may well turn out to be misleading indicators of the longer - term effects on test scores and attainment.

Of those studies, 27 find school choice programs save money.

Even when choice programs target their benefits to the poor, they usually have the good sense not to take something away from the rich.

A majority of families involved in publicly funded school choice programs come from low - income communities.

Many choice programs have been crafted to minimize the monetary impact on public districts.

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

Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says, school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.

One goal of this book is to convince the reader that the latter increases the former: that parental school - choice programs cause or represent ability tracking.

The private schools that participate in choice programs also are distinctive.

By contrast, there is a significant body of evidence that school - choice programs work without excessive government regulation.

Here is a review of the school choice programs currently available and the number of students....