Sentences with phrase «education choices available»

A group of parents founded Valley Academy in 1995 after expressing dissatisfaction with the education choices available to their children.

Not exact matches

We have come to believe that a system allowing parents a choice among schools, if properly organized by an aggressive central administration, can release energies that only diversity makes available, without sacrificing accountability for the effective education of every child.

She offers expectant couples the education and support to make informed choices regarding the full spectrum of options available throughout the birth process, and unlock the innate skills that produce a positive birthing experience.

There are many choices that may be available for you and your teen to explore to continue his high school education.

Additional information is also available from Home Education UK especially their legal section which helps to clarify the 1996 Education Act for parents who are considering the Elective Home Education choice.

Homeschooling may not be the right path for every family for a panoply of reasons, but just as parents spend a lot of time contemplating and researching the public and private school options available to them, homeschooling should be another reasonable education choice for families to consider.

Once this form is available, it will be posted on the Department of Education's Teacher's Choice website.

With the school - choice alternative, for example, parents wanting the best education for their child often need financial means and knowledge of the educational options to make an informed choice of another school, resources not always available in low - income communities.

In «In the Wake of the Storm,» which is now available at www.EducationNext.org and will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Education Next, Harvard researcher Michael Henderson tells the story behind the passage of voucher legislation in Louisiana and identifies the election of Bobby Jindal, a popular governor committed to school choice, as the most critical factor.

In my view, the available choices should include private, charter, and virtual schools, and just about anything else with the potential to deliver a quality education to kids.

«School Choice Marches Forward» will appear in the Winter 2013 issue of Education Next and is now available online at www.educationnext.org.

A government - led review into post-18 education will identify ways to help people make more effective choices between the different options available for young people.

They may choose to go into full time further education, with courses available from entry level to BSc, there is a huge choice when it comes to qualifications in landscaping and horticulture.

Those claiming that the best way forward for Australia is more choice for parents and further privatisation of public education simply speak more from an ideology and mythology standpoint than from available evidence and facts.

This «course choice» paper by the Foundation for Excellence in Education and Education Counsel shows how charters are playing a lead role in making varied, rigorous courses available to more students.

The authors hypothesize that if state and local governments empower parents to choose the schools of their choice, a «spontaneous education order» — a state in which parents seek information about schools and in which schools make available the necessary information without public officials» intentional intervention — will arise.

Parent choice, another GOP favorite, is a fine thing but (a) there isn't nearly enough of it (the establishment at work again via statehouse and union contract), (b) too many of the available choices are abysmal, and (c) a lot of parents — painful as this is to say — make mediocre education choices and then stubbornly persist with them.

With so many options available to young people, such as grammar schools, free schools, sixth form, apprenticeships, further education colleges, UTC's and university, it must be a challenging task to decipher which path will be the right one for a young person's career choices.

«Our feeling is that charter schools can really engage parents in their children's learning, because parents make an active choice - especially when there aren't that many good choices available,» said Jim Shelton, an assistant secretary of education, in a recent phone interview.

Education choice should be universally available and free of any «conditions... that interfere with the freedom of private enterprises to experiment, to explore, and to innovate.»

Building on the limited choice options currently available in the nation's capital, policymakers should establish an equitably funded education savings account for all DC children.

Choice brings freedom, diversity, and innovation to how education is provided, who provides it, and what options are available to families.

They only care whether there are enough choices available in their city or neighborhood so that their child — and every child — can find a strong fit and receive an excellent public education.

In the wake of Congressional action, state lawmakers should take up the baton to expand educational freedom by making choice programs like education scholarship accounts available to more families.

School choice allows families to choose the best education available for their child.

At the crux of the matter we became charter school supporters and advocates because we believed in a system where quality education choices were available to all students, not just those fortunate enough to afford tuition or live in the right neighborhood.

The 3 - D School shows that when school choice options are available, high - quality schools will open or grow to meet the needs of parents and parents will be able to judge the education their child is receiving.

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.

That drives away education providers, thereby reducing the choices available to families, while creating a powerful incentive for participating providers to conform.

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.

In the past 5 years, 1,600 Mississippi children have enrolled in expanding school choice programs, including public charter schools, the Special Needs Education Scholarship Account, and the Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship, and every program with a cap on the seats available has a waiting list.

And they are fortunate to have the luxury with numerous public and private school choice programs available statewide, including public school open enrollment, charter schools, Education Savings Accounts, and tax credit scholarships.

And although today most federal dollars are available only to school districts, others — mayors, nonprofits, and other education officials — should be able to compete for the money to expand choice.

Last year, Nevada passed the most expansive school choice program in the country, an Education Savings Account available to virtually every student in the state that gives families the ability to craft a custom eEducation Savings Account available to virtually every student in the state that gives families the ability to craft a custom educationeducation.

During National School Choice Week, events are held throughout the country to shine a spotlight on effective education options for all children and to raise awareness to the different education options that are available to children today.

This type of school choice quickly and effectively allows more families to access the multitude of learning options available and, thus, customize their education.

If you expand the choices available to parents, either through a consumer - based model of education or others, they can walk with their feet (and with the dollars provided by a public financing of education).

«Because of that law, we are able to send Lana to a school where she gets to receive the best resources and education available to her,» Beard said, speaking before dozens of children, educators and lawmakers at the National School Choice Week Rally at the Capitol in January.

The choice to pick your child's school or reform an existing failing school, whatever school choice will benefit a child's education should be available for all parents.

In the Foundation's continual quest to make its educational choice program eligibility calculations more accurate, the team scoured the various data tables available through the National Center on Education Statistics and the American Community Survey in the summer of 2015.

(c) The sum of $ 500,000 appropriated in section 67 of public act 11 - 61 to the Department of Education, for OPEN Choice Program, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, shall not lapse on June 30, 2012, and such funds shall continue to be available for the purpose of funding a loan to the city of Bridgeport to be included in the budgeted appropriation for education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for the city of Bridgeport during the fiscal year ending June Education, for OPEN Choice Program, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, shall not lapse on June 30, 2012, and such funds shall continue to be available for the purpose of funding a loan to the city of Bridgeport to be included in the budgeted appropriation for education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for the city of Bridgeport during the fiscal year ending June education for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, for the city of Bridgeport during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2013.

School Choice Ohio is the only statewide organization that educates parents on the education options available for their children and advocates for the expansion of quality education options for every Ohio child.

School choice encourages parents to select from a variety of outstanding school options available to them: neighborhood public schools, charter schools, magnet and vanguard schools, religious and private schools, or homeschooling and online education.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos trumpets school choice as a way of making quality education available to everyone, not just riEducation Betsy DeVos trumpets school choice as a way of making quality education available to everyone, not just rieducation available to everyone, not just rich folks.

A huge menu of choice is already available on the level of higher education, because the market is national and competition for the scarce resource of the residential student continues to gets more intense.

As a progressive Democrat who believes a quality education should be available to every child regardless of income or geography, I believe in school choice as an equalizer.

The report provides education stakeholders a decision making tool to help them sort through their options regarding the hundreds of elementary school improvement choices available to meet local needs.

In this regard we feel that this report builds on previous ones and provides education decision - makers the best evidence yet available to support informed choices.

A State should not be able to use «choice» to skirt their responsibility to provide a free, appropriate public education to students with disabilities and federal funds should not be made available for vouchers unless all student civil rights are fully upheld.»

Our reports provide education stakeholders a decision making tool to help them sort through their options regarding the numerous middle and high school improvement choices available to meet local needs.