Sentences with phrase «different public school choice»

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Conservatives take a different lesson from the disappointing results of the law's public school choice provisions.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&public school for their children.&school for their children.»

A public sympathetic to school choice could be so troubled by Democratic opposition that it comes to view Democratic and Republicans in a very different light when it comes to handling education.

Our analysis focuses on new school options — traditional public, charter, and private — that families might gain access to under different kinds of choice policies.

In this report, we use nationwide data on the locations of public and private elementary schools to calculate the percent of American families that could potentially gain access to new school options under different national school choice policies.

In this report, we begin to fill this gap by using nationwide data on the locations of public and private elementary schools to calculate the percent of American families that could potentially gain access to new school options under different national school choice policies.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

To voucher proponents, that student performance at private schools is ultimately on par with that at public schools shows vouchers are working as intended, giving families an equal but different choice.

School choice attempts to level the playing field between students of different backgrounds by making it possible for all families to have access to a city's high - quality public schools — whether students live near these schools or not.

Had our public education system been funded using school choice mechanisms in the past, they all might be experiencing a different present.

Voucher programs that give recipients the free and independent choice of an array of providers, including faith - based organizations, have a long and established history in Arizona, including six different educational voucher programs that help more than 22,000 students annually attend the public, private or religious school of their choice.

Although the charter school and modern private school choice movements began around the same time (in 1991 and 1990, respectively), they've had very different experiences: Some 2.3 million children are enrolled in the charter sector's tuition - free public schools.

The tight connection between the different flavors of school choice is highlighted in those districts that deploy a common application for public schools of all types — charter, magnet, and traditional.

Regardless of one's philosophical reaction to school choice, there's no denying providing such families the option to access their public school dollars to purchase different educational services is one way to serve underserved students.

From Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs to dual - language immersion to Career Academies, public schools are increasingly looking to expand the choices they provide students that appeal to their different interests.

Although school choice programs vary across different states, the local and federal funding generally remains in the public school and results in a greater quantity of money being available for the students who choose to stay there.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

These celebratory events raise public awareness of the different K - 12 education options available to children and families, while spotlighting the benefits of school choice.

More inter-district choice (Enrolling in public schools located in different towns than my home)

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Patte Barth, director of the Center for Public Education, provided a summary of the new report, which uses data from the federal Schools and Staffing Survey to examine the scope of choices available both across different school buildings and within school programs.

I can not understand why some people are so dedicated to denying families like mine the simple ability to have a real choice between different public schools.

I look forward to boldly examine different citywide issues that are preventing Oakland public schools from serving their underprivileged neighborhoods fully, and problem solving with other TAG members to provide better neighborhood school choices for our children.

School choice proponents and opponents see traditional public schools in completely different ways.

Every researcher we consulted warned that comparisons between public and choice school funding can produce different conclusions depending on how the comparisons are set up.

Wealthy and upper middle - class parents have the financial means to send their child to a school of their choice or move to a different district when their assigned public school fails to meet their child's needs.

As White points out: «School choice» means something different to everyone but usually encompasses the idea that a benevolent federal agency «allows» low - income parents to move from one education facility to another (charter schools), with public money (vouchers), «in order to provide their children with what the bureaucrats or philanthropists think will be a better education for them.»

Second, beyond selection bias, we don't know if there are other factors that affect achievement that we are not accounting for that are systematically different between students in choice schools and students in traditional public schools.

My hypotheses going in to this study is that when first looking at choice schools on student achievement I would see a positive effect because of selection bias; I expected that the students in choice schools would be systematically different from those in traditional public school due to parental factors that affected their selection of a choice program.

After all, what difference does it make having a choice between a public school and a charter school if your test scores - and, by inference, the quality of your education - will likely be little different?

Charter schools provide families with a choice of a different kind of public school that best fits their children's learning needs - as we know, not all children learn and thrive in the same environment.

The truth is public school families have used a form of school choice: buying a home in a different district.

Other changes in proficiency levels for the Forward and DLM across public and private choice school grades and subjects were not significantly different.

When charter schools fail to accommodate students with special needs, they limit the opportunities of students with disabilities and, at the same time, exacerbate fiscal inequities among different public schools incorporated in the choice system.