Sentences with phrase «expanded local choice»

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.

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HB 1224 (2008) encourages school districts to expand their local wellness policies to adopt goals for emphasizing healthy choices and lifestyles, including physical education (PE), nutrition, and mental health counseling.

It is just one of a number of local bills that are intended to empower Montgomery County voters, including a bill that would expand the number of early voting sites, and another that would enable the County to adopt ranked choice voting for County Executive and County Council special elections.

Regulations and guidance can create a «safe place» for forward - leaning state and local leaders that want to align their federal funds with their own decisions — and dollars — by which to expand school choice.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

Whittle School & Studios is building a global system of schools — launching Fall 2019 in Washington DC, USA, and Shenzhen, China, and expanding to other countries in subsequent years — that will incorporate learning by doing, creating and making, student choice and voice, collaboration and teamwork, and global connections with local roots.

The evidence is clear that expanding choice without a local strategy to support its success will yield disappointing results.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

Charter schools have become a very popular instrument for reforming public schools, because they expand choices, facilitate local innovation, and provide incentives for the regular public schools

That's why it's encouraging to see more states and local municipalities explore new pathways to expand parental choice to deserving families from diverse backgrounds.

In advance of today's «Expanding Education Opportunity through School Choice» hearing, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts: from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (Choice» hearing, the National School Boards Association (NSBA) sent a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and the Workforce, to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts: from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts: from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

According to Department budget documents, the proposal «would support LEAs in establishing or expanding student - centered systems that: (1) differentiate funding based on student characteristics, providing disadvantaged students more funding on a per - pupil basis than other students; (2) offer a range of viable school options and enable the Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice; (3) make school performance and funding data easily accessible to parents; and (4) empower school leaders to use funds flexibly to address student and community needs.

They facilitated Menu for the Future small group discussions to support local farmers and educate eaters, and as a result local eaters changed their food choices, and the market for local food products expanded.

HD Radio Technology also provides extra local FM channels to expand your listening choices.

The array of expanding national chains, along with the local and regional restaurants seeking to grow, gives landlords a mix of choices.