Sentences with phrase «default school assignments»

Even Houston Independent School District, which was rated as the sixth best choice system in the U.S., falls well short of the nation's frontrunners, as it still gives students default school assignments based on geographical zones and lacks a streamlined enrollment process that accounts for parental preferences.

The simple feature of eliminating a default school assignment by the school district — thus requiring every parent to engage in school choice — eliminates socioeconomic differences in the likelihood that parents will shop for schools.

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But he does believe that the default homework policy in schools should be a no homework policy, and that the burden of proof should rest with educators who want to assign homework to show that their assignments are beneficial.

• there is no default assigned school (everyone must choose); • there is a common application; • there is rich, valid, and comparable information on school performance (including test results that incorporate academic growth); • school performance information is clearly presented (including support for less educated parents); and • there is an assignment algorithm that maximizes the preferences expressed by all parents and the resulting school assignment for all students.

Remember, government's default assignment algorithm is to look at your family's address and then assign your child to the nearest school.

Controlled choice eliminates the default assignment of a neighborhood school in a district, removes traditional school attendance boundaries, and creates larger zones or catchment areas within the district.

There are no default public school assignments in New Orleans; any family may apply to any school in the city.

In Denver, for example, students retain a default, zoned assignment, but the school choice application offers parents a single application, timeline, and process for applying to any school in the city.

Disturbed by these lists and the seemingly little action to transform the schools on them, I wrote what's been dubbed the «Romero» Open Enrollment Act in 2010, which provides unprecedented school - choice options for parents of kids trapped in failing schools solely due to default geographic assignment: ZIP code.