Sentences with phrase «demand better choices for students»

New York's charter school movement mobilizes parents to march across the Brooklyn Bridge and gather in annual rallies to demand better choices for students.

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In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Those numbers rise every year due to parent and student demand for better public education choices.

In fact, all parents should have a right to sidestep the tricks of the traditionalists and teachers unions, knock down doors and demand the best education treat possible — a choice of a public or private school for their children — and let the edu - dollars follow the student.