Sentences with phrase «directly in the hands of parents»

One way forward for simplification and increases in the productivity of the federal investment is to make social programs intended to support lower income families with children more like tax expenditures — putting more money directly in the hands of parents to spend on the care and development of their children and less money directly in the financial accounts of states, welfare agencies, and social service providers.

By placing school choice power directly in the hands of parents who know their children far better than any bureaucrat, real freedom comes when parents are able to shop education dollars for the very best academic program.

According to Gov. Brian Sandoval, «The language approved by the commission, passed with unanimous bipartisan support, puts the decisions that have an immediate impact in our classrooms directly in the hands of parents, teachers and principals, which is where it belongs.»

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Let me continue in that vein by looking at efforts to go around «the system» and put useful tools directly into the hands of parents and teachers.

Project Reach Offers Outstretched Hand to Community When teachers at one Georgia elementary school recognized the need for more frequent and meaningful dialogue with the parents of their students, they decided to take the conversation directly to the parents in the form of «Project Reach.»