Sentences with phrase «expanded public school choice»

These unusual events and policies included the great recession, expanded public school choice programs in the Hartford region, and assorted neoliberal education reforms.

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 needs.

In October 2002, the federal Department of Education distributed nearly $ 24 million in grants to Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, and districts in six other states to expand their public school choice programs.

The second report, published by the Brookings Institution, looks at ways of expanding choice and competition, including expanding public school choice to break down residential barriers that keep many poor kids from attending better schools.

In addition to seeking a change in the way the state uses data to measure student, teacher, and school performance, Mr. Schwarzenegger asked lawmakers to repeal California's charter school cap, expand public school choice, step up turnaround efforts for struggling schools, and enact alternative - pay plans for educators.

Yet even as we have expanded public school choices for students to include career academies and all - girls schools, we are still faced with significant barriers to prevent us from teaching English language learners in a bilingual environment.

Thankfully, through the hard work and dedication of thousands of advocates, educators, families, and elected leaders, we've made significant headway toward expanding public school choice and educational opportunity to more American students than ever before.

Not exact matches

Trump had sought $ 1 billion to encourage public school districts to adopt choice - friendly policies, and another $ 250 million to expand private - school voucher programs.

Forward - thinking candidates know that educational and economic justice means expanding school choice to all and not just families that can afford private - school tuition, tutors or suburban homes in the best public school districts,» said NYIA spokesman Robert Bellafiore.

The EITC would expand options for families seeking additional choices in the grades before college by allowing up to $ 100 million in tax credits for contributions to public and private schools.

«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.

On - going trends involving public school segregation have been a primary focus of the CRP's research, and the expanding policy emphasis on school choice prompted analysis of the much smaller — but politically potent — charter sector.

His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.

The second type is worded to suggest that vouchers would expand choices for parents generally and that parents with children in public schools would be part of the program.

The central purpose of a voucher program is to expand the choices available to all qualifying parents, especially those who now have kids in public schools.

It was the combination of a new market environment and effective responses from the public schools that simultaneously expanded choices for poor families and improved both choices and performance within the Milwaukee public schools.

Because the effects of competition on the performance of traditional public schools can be identified best during periods in which the amount of competition is changing, these years offer a convenient way to test the effects of expanded school choice.

Gatlin says she is proud of Romney's education plan, particularly its focus on increasing choice for parents, which would allow for expanded access to highquality public charter schools, and make Title I and IDEA funds portable, so that low income and special needs students can choose which schools to attend and bring the funding with them.

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.»

We estimate that private school choice and intradistrict choice (allowing families to choose any traditional public school in their district) have the largest potential to expand the sets of schools to which families have access, with more than 80 percent of families having at least one of these «choice» schools within five miles of home.

Others may want to focus on expanding their charter or private school sectors, or on fostering more choice within the traditional public sector.

For example, expanding distance from one mile to five more than doubles the number of families who could gain access to a choice of at least two public schools under an intradistrict choice policy.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

Using their new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing public schools, increasing charters from 14 schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing schools, and making almost all of the city's high schools «schools of choice» (see Figure 2).

While expanding parental options for children's education in Milwaukee, school choice has transformed public education into a multi-sector delivery system for the good of everyone.

Yet they helped create a climate in which public schools may have wanted to demonstrate their effectiveness for fear that choice opportunities would continue to expand.

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.»

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

The nomination of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education guarantees that school choice will remain a key component of the education policy agenda in 2017, as public charter schools continue to expand and state and federal policymakers implement or consider policies to expand access to private schools.

Expanding student participation in public school choice and free tutoring, also known as supplemental education services

Proponents contend that charter schools expand educational choices for students, increase innovation, improve student achievement, and promote healthy competition with traditional public schools.

With similar assistance, Michael Bennet and Tom Boasberg began to turn the Denver Public Schools into the country's most advanced «portfolio» district (see «Denver Expands Choice and Charters,» features, Summer 2016).

WASHINGTON — Parents overwhelmingly believe that public schools are the single most important institution for the future of their community and of our nation, and they choose strong neighborhood public schools over expanding choice, charters and vouchers, according to a nationwide poll released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

Finally, in discussing the OSP's impact on expanding school choice for parents, Professor Wolf relates that approximately 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.

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.

Throughout his political career, Owens had strongly supported expanded public and private school choice in Colorado, going so far as to publicly endorse pro-voucher candidates for school boards.

Tom Luna, Idaho Supt. of Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice in public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.&Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice in public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.&public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.»

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.

Charter Schools Development Corporation, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit corporation and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), promotes innovation and excellence in education by helping charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build and expand their school models, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice within the American public education system.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

As parents, educators and taxpayers of Nevada, we the undersigned urge Nevada's public officials to defend and expand the most inclusive school choice program in the nation.

The plan vastly expands school choice opportunities in PA by creating an Opportunity Scholarship Program, which would provide tuition assistance for eligible students to attend a public or non-public school of their choice.

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.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

From Advanced Placement and International Baccalaureate programs to dual - language immersion to Career Academies, public schools are increasingly looking to expand the choices they provide students that appeal to their different interests.

We saw school choice expanded during the legislative session and families fight back against a lawsuit attempting to shut down Mississippi's public charter schools.

(Hanover, MD, January 15, 2013) Charter schools are the cornerstone of the movement to expand school choice options for families which has revolutionized public K - 12 education over the past two decades.

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.