Sentences with phrase «educational choice policies»

This is the seventh and likely final entry in a series on the expansion of educational choice policies in 2015.

The best educational choice policies make as many children as possible eligible to participate, but also empower participants to truly afford their chosen educational options.

We saw this as a really good opportunity and the timing was good to try to better understand these families and their needs and how educational choice policies may be able to help them.

Every year, we hold several regional summits where experts from all across the country come together to help state senators and representatives understand educational choice policies work, how other states are implementing and regulating them, what the research says and more.

By the time the ball dropped in Times Square, 15 states had adopted 21 new or expanded educational choice policies, and courts rejected challenges to choice laws in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

The three most common forms of private educational choice policies are school vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and, most recently, education savings accounts (ESAs).

Given the state's current fiscal climate, it may very well benefit the Silver State to embrace educational choice policies that partially mitigate its financial challenges, even if by modest amounts.

We found many state legislators are unsure of the fastest - growing educational choice policy in the nation: education savings accounts (ESAs).

With this research, we sought to better understand what state legislators think about a number of education topics — including educational choice policies — as well as how they feel about the profession, sources of information they trust and how often they consider different sources of influence when making legislative decisions.

Advocates of large - scale private school choice programs should be careful not to over-promise, but critics of market - oriented educational choice policies should also be careful not to cherry pick or to make claims that the research literature does not support.

Paul DiPerna, who leads the SIA project, offers snapshots of Millennials» views on the direction of American K — 12 education, various educational choice policies, standardized testing and more.

This annual survey — developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc. — measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K — 12 education topics, including parents» schooling preferences, educational choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more.