Sentences with phrase «district public school choice»

«What I'm hoping is that when you have in - district public school choice and money follows the child that the marketplace starts to exert pressure on schools to perform better... So, right away, that schools are on notice that if I'm governor, I'm going to try to make sure this gets passed and implemented, so if they should start trying to be better schools right away, to the extent they can.»

While mandating that every publicly funded school should meet rigorous state content standards, every state should explore additional forms of school choice, pushing far beyond the boundaries of within - district public school choice.

Not exact matches

She contends that educational choice will create a «two - tiered system in urban districts, with charter schools for motivated students and public schools for those left behind.»

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field school events and field trips.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cSchools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cschools controlling their choices.

Trump had sought $ 1 billion to encourage public school districts to adopt choice - friendly policies, and another $ 250 million to expand private - school voucher programs.

Walter Schartner, the Sayville schools chief, said a cap override there is needed to maintain current services; the district's choices will be outlined in greater detail at an April 1 public forum, he said.

Forward - thinking candidates know that educational and economic justice means expanding school choice to all and not just families that can afford private - school tuition, tutors or suburban homes in the best public school districts,» said NYIA spokesman Robert Bellafiore.

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«The public and private schools in my district are well - regarded and I think parents are very happy with the choices they have,» Matteo said in a statement.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

In a sense, by establishing public school choice, all three of the decentralized school districts have found a way to approximate the proven power of competition in a governmental setting.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Cybercharter advocates and entrepreneurs are not surprised at the criticism (and lawsuits, nearly all of which have been unsuccessful) they have been handed from public school districts, Democratic legislators resistant to educational choice initiatives, and teachers unions.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

To explore the influence of school choice on district policy and practice, we scoured media sources for evidence of urban public - school districts» responses to charter competition.

The program allows businesses to receive an 85 percent tax credit on contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low - and middle - income families attending the private school, home school, or out - of - district public school of their choice.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

Two of the six sites — Somers Elementary and the Hudson district — are public schools to which students are assigned, while the other four are schools of choice.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

And to receive federal dollars, districts must give parents the freedom to use this information to select the school of their choice — traditional public, charter, or private.

«The rhetoric we hear from the Trump people, «Choice is good, and school districts are bad,» sets us back a decade,» Robin Lake, director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, told journalist Richard Whitmire.

The Milwaukee school choice program and the response of Milwaukee Public Schools are especially significant in light of Frederick M. Hess's study of the effects of competition on large urban school districts.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

«The school district monopoly over public education facilities is an accident of history,» writes Nelson Smith, one that would not have happened «if there had been more than one choice of provider when the laws were being written.»

Our measure of the current level of choice in the public school system has no statistically significant relationship with charter support within school districts.

Last August, the American Civil Liberties Union won the latest in a series of lawsuits against single - sex public schools in a district where, it argued, children were given no other choice.

Also, instructional per - pupil spending has increased in all affected public school districts, contradicting the belief that school choice programs take money away from public school students, the report says.

In October 2002, the federal Department of Education distributed nearly $ 24 million in grants to Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, and districts in six other states to expand their public school choice programs.

Roughly 70 percent of districts also offered parents some degree of choice among public schools or the option of applying to a magnet school.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

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.»

Even before Villaraigosa pushed through public school choice, the district watched over 15 magnet schools with long waiting lists, and Cortines's pilot campuses were showing promising results, at least in terms of decentralizing school management.

In Choosing Schools, Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and Melissa Marschall study the processes and effects of public school choice using a quasi-experimental design in four school districts in New York City and New Jersey.

The study is rooted in analyses of parental behavior in District 4 in Manhattan and in suburban Montclair, New Jersey, with comparisons with neighboring districts that offer limited or no public school choice.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

Intradistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school within their school district (i.e., not just within their attendance zones).

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

Interdistrict choice: Allow families access to any public traditional elementary school outside of their school district.

Under an interdistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school outside their school district.

In most states and districts, they provide very little choice for American families and very little competition for the regular public schools.

Approved school - choice bill to allow students to transfer to public schools outside their home districts.

Before charter schools, there were district - run magnet schools and other forms of public school choice, of which Shanker was an early proponent.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

Hickok: If an existing desegregation order limits public school choice, then the district has the obligation to go back to the office that issued the order to change it, so the district can offer public school choice.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

Choice programs come in several flavors, including charter schools, which are publicly funded but independently operated; private school vouchers, which cover all or part of private school tuition; and open enrollment plans (sometimes called public school vouchers) that allow parents to send their child to any public school in the district.

Yes, districts developed policies for NCLB public school choice and supplemental education services, but they cleverly thwarted the full implementation of these programs, evidenced by the shockingly low student participation rates.