Sentences with phrase «exercised education choice»

If you have ever saved your pennies, nickels, and dimes to pay for private school tuition, you have exercised education choice.

If you have ever chosen a neighborhood to live in because of the quality of the schools, you have exercised education choice.

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«For services such as health and education, it allows users to exercise choice between providers.

A jailed criminal never has to worry about the heat being shut off in the winter, or the A / C in the summer, he gets 3 square meals, free rent, no utilities to pay, no credit card responsibilities, sunday mass of his choice, an exercise yard, cable tv, a library, free laundry, free education if they desire, cell phone (yes, cell phones, look it up) internet service, healthcare (not the best but never has any bills or denials) still gets to sleep everynight (and it's quiet) Now, how much do you (we) pay for all that?

The contributors discuss two limited forms of choice in K - 12 education - vouchers and charter schools - when in fact a large share of the population has always exercised one or another form of choice.

Earlier this week, Education Next released two articles that shed light on how parents who exercise school choice feel about the schools their children attend.

More controversial in state and national policy discussions have been proposals to enable parents, especially low - income parents, to exercise greater choice over their children's education through school vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, or home schooling.

Through efforts such as the «Newark Enrolls» universal enrollment system and the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, Newark Public Schools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their schools.

Dr Becky Allen, Director of Education Datalab, said: «There are many benefits to giving parents a choice over where their child is educated, but our new research shows that that there is not equity in access to many primary schools, either because higher - income families are advantaged in their ability to exercise choice or because their admissions criteria favour certain pupils.»

To give an idea of the dire need for more charters beyond the current permissible amount, there are about 163,000 students presently on waiting lists all over the City whose parents are waiting for the opportunity to exercise a real choice about their education.

In a personalized learning environment, students are self - directed learners with a sense of agency about their education; embracing opportunities to exercise voice and choice in the curriculum.

The Parent Power Index, released by the Center for Education Reform, measures the ability of a parent in each state to exercise choices in education, engage with Education Reform, measures the ability of a parent in each state to exercise choices in education, engage with education, engage with -LSB-...]

Why do we not allow parents to exercise that same right to choice in the education of their child?»

Charters are further held accountable by parents exercising choice in order to secure quality education for their children.

Unfortunately, as Ravitch being the highlight portends, another perspective is almost wholly absent from the discussion: that accountability exercised by parents through universal school choice, not continued top - down accountability from states or Washington, is the key to truly effective education reform.

I would suggest that if there were such an analysis, let's start by asking the families who have exercised their choice, what are the lifetime «benefits of choice,» of their child having a high - quality education — and putting a value on that!

Australia has the most competitive education system in the world — parents with a reasonably high level of disposable income can exercise wide choice.