Sentences with phrase «expand quality school choices»

He spent the next half - decade running nonprofits aimed to expand quality school choices for low - income students before taking a corporate job with Target, flying all over the country as a fast - rising executive.

Not exact matches

«We're going to do everything we can to support the governor in advancing a bold education reform agenda that improves the quality of traditional public schools and expands choice for families,» the group's executive director, Jenny Sedlis, said in an interview.

An analysis of more than 100 million individual searches on the nation's largest school - quality website finds that expanded local choice motivates families to become more informed about their educational options.

A more constructive approach is the road we've been traveling for 20 years now: expanding school choice via new, high - quality options.

And we have to continue to expand parental choice and grow the number of high - quality charter schools — the kind getting twice, three times, four times, five times the number of low - income students to and through college.

These national ERAOs and their counterparts at the state level are focused on enacting sweeping education policy changes to increase accountability for student achievement, improve teacher quality, turn around failing schools, and expand school choice.

To date, most ed - reform efforts have been aimed at mere structural change — expanding the reach of school choice and charter schools, improving teacher quality, or insisting on test - driven accountability.

Identifying the kinds of private schools that boost these outcomes could enhance policymakers» ability to design private school choice programs that expand disadvantaged children's access to high - quality educational opportunities.

The goal of Louisiana's private school choice policy is to expand over time the number of high quality, free or low - cost schooling options available to low - income families.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

This prompted the founding of GLEP, which focuses on academic quality and accountability in Michigan schools, in addition to expanding school choice.

More intriguing, however, is news that the report will discuss «how to expand school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality.»

The preview for a release event says that the report will discuss «how to expand school choice to increase equity and create a market within the public sector for school quality.»

If the new administration is serious about making school choice expand and thrive long term, leaders would do well to pick their battles carefully to minimize polarization and maximize quality.

As more cities expand school choice, we will have the opportunity to compare New Orleans to other markets to see how factors such as economies of scale, regulations, and demand influence the amount and quality of differentiation.

We believe that school choice policy should be considered a means of expanding the opportunity to attend a verifiably high - quality school for those historically less likely to be granted such an opportunity.

Developing a comprehensive district choice program that includes expanding the number of high - quality seats through replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools.

In contrast, Heckman and Carneiro advocate reallocating resources toward the youngest students (especially preschoolers), expanding mentoring programs for disadvantaged adolescents, and raising the quality of the nation's public schools, not by augmenting their resources, but by enhancing parental choice.

The goal of Louisiana's private school choice policy is to expand the number of high quality, free or low - cost schooling options available to low - income families.

It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher quality and expanding school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.

Expanding school choice and high - quality options within districts is part of the solution.

She has been instrumental in expanding school choice programs nationwide, which has given students with disabilities and those from low - income families the opportunity to attend the quality school of their parents» choice.

Expand true parent choice and opportunity by considering a proposal for racially and economically diverse, district - operated charter schools that aim to ensure high quality, equal educational opportunities in a diverse learning environment.

Course choice is a program that provides public school students with expanded access to quality education courses regardless of their location.

As public charter schools continue to expand here in Arizona, more students are able to access the quality choice offered by these innovative schools.

In this Best of Dropout Nation, Editor RiShawn Biddle points to the economic reasons why we must commit to providing all children with strong, comprehensive, college prep curricula and nurturing kids through high expectations (along with improving teacher and school leader quality, and expanding school choice and Parent Power).

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

Chartering Quality is a blog devoted to improving public education and expanding opportunity through smart authorizing of charter schools — autonomous, accountable, public schools of choice.

Yet one has to argue that the Bayou State is one of the few that has continuously done the right things in expanding school choice and improving teacher quality.

The state's governor, Bobby Jindal, is looking to further burnish the state's efforts on the teacher quality front this week with his proposal to eliminate near - lifetime employment for laggard teachers with unsatisfactory ratings on the state's new teacher evaluation system, while pushing further on expanding charters by allowing successful charter operators to expand without having to go through the current approval process, and allowing the state education department to authorize charters throughout the state (and thus, ending efforts by traditional districts to restrict school choice within their boundaries).

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Senate Education Chairman Sen. Dan W. «Blade» Morrish and Rep. Kirk Talbot championed the legislation, demonstrating their commitment to expanding school choice options and improving the quality of education in Louisiana.

On this week's Midweek Monitor, RiShawn Biddle takes a look at Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's battle to expand school choice and end tenure; casts an eye on Iowa Gov. Terry Brandstad's efforts to improve teacher quality; and checks out the Connecticut Parents Union / StudentsFirst Rally with Michelle Rhee and MSNBC's Michelle Bernard.

Despite evidence that the complexity of the nation's education crisis requires an array of solutions — including strong curriculum standards and robust consequential accountability, the overhaul of teacher quality, revamp of curriculum and standards, expanding school choice, improving school data systems and giving parents their rightful decision - making roles in education — far too many reformers are busy touting and flacking their one grand solution and dismiss others that, in their minds, don't further their own.

Let's be clear: The need for rigorous, college - preparatory curricula with strong content is as critical an element in reforming American public education as advancing standards and accountability, overhauling teacher quality, expanding school choice, bolstering Parent Power, improving school leadership and building robust data systems.

Left unmentioned are the efforts on the supply side — expanding school choice, improving teacher quality, and strengthening curriculum.

Unfortunately, school choice is also sometimes pushed as a goal itself as advocates work to expand the number of choices without enough concern for quality.

Well, for example, when Catalyst asked how Chicago Public Schools justifies $ 76 million in increased funding to charter schools despite their lackluster performance and the district's enormous deficit, spokeswoman Becky Carroll said that «our job is to not only help build high - quality schools, but expand the number of choices.Schools justifies $ 76 million in increased funding to charter schools despite their lackluster performance and the district's enormous deficit, spokeswoman Becky Carroll said that «our job is to not only help build high - quality schools, but expand the number of choices.schools despite their lackluster performance and the district's enormous deficit, spokeswoman Becky Carroll said that «our job is to not only help build high - quality schools, but expand the number of choices.schools, but expand the number of choices.»

So it is hard for Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli to offer any spirited defense of Virginia's woeful proficiency targets (or even defend the state's unwillingness to address teacher quality issues and expand school choice).

The Mission of the Idaho Charter School Network is to improve student achievement and expand choice among high quality public schools by advancing and supporting Idaho's charter schools.

Around 3,000 families and educators from northeast San Fernando Valley charter schools marched in support of expanding high quality schools, securing better facilities and protecting parent choice in public education at last Saturday's «Rally in the Valley.»

In Alabama, where the state sustained aggressive reading instruction and curriculum reform (even as it failed to overhaul teacher quality and expand school choice), 33 percent of students read Below Basic, a 15 percent decline from nine years ago; the percentage of poor fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined by 16 percent in that same period, from 61 percent to 45 percent.

Position Summary: The Colorado League of Charter Schools exists to improve student achievement and expand choice among high quality public schools by serving and supporting Colorado's charter sSchools exists to improve student achievement and expand choice among high quality public schools by serving and supporting Colorado's charter sschools by serving and supporting Colorado's charter schoolsschools.

The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and school choice activists in the Sunshine State to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public school dollars for expanding access to high - quality private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.

Since then, we increased quality options for families with expanded public school choice, a needs - based voucher program, and Indiana's Charter School Board, making sure all parents — no matter where they live — have the ability to find a good school that meets their child's school choice, a needs - based voucher program, and Indiana's Charter School Board, making sure all parents — no matter where they live — have the ability to find a good school that meets their child's School Board, making sure all parents — no matter where they live — have the ability to find a good school that meets their child's school that meets their child's needs.

In addition, strong academic programs in existing schools have been expanded to provide high - quality choice for families.

We're cutting administrative waste and inefficiencies in order to protect investments in programs that boost student learning such as full school day, early childhood development and maintaining class size, while at the same time expanding high quality school options across the district to give parents more choices.