Sentences with phrase «educational choice options such»

Education outcomes in America continue to lag globally; the debate over Common Core State Standards remains heated; and educational choice options such as education savings accounts and charter schools continue to grow.

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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.

Without it, districts with under - performing schools will have to use it to pay for supplemental educational services such as tutoring, along with school - choice options that include transportation to better - performing schools if requested by parents.

Families may use some educational choice options, such as ESAs and opportunity scholarships, to fund what will enable their children best to succeed.

In response to a call to AFC's national headquarters to ask why they are interested in funding election campaigns for lawmakers in North Carolina, Matt Frendewey, communications director, said via email, «as the nation's voice for educational choice, AFC and its coalition partners in states such as North Carolina support candidates on a bipartisan basis who believe in strengthening education by giving parents more educational options for their children.»

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

While it seems ironic that programs intended to give parents a genuine and free choice between district, charter and private educational options could be construed to limit and constrain choice, no such characterization can be made of the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program.