Others seem to want the charter sector to permanently operate in parallel to a district sector, giving interested low - income
families public alternatives to assigned government - run schools.
Not exact matches
By building and operating an excellent
public transit system, employers can access a wider pool of employees, employees can access more job opportunities,
families can deal with housing affordability challenges by living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable
alternative to sitting in traffic.
Camps are usually scheduled to coincide with the local
public school system's spring break to give kids a fun
alternative to staying home all week if your
family isn't traveling.
By guiding, informing, and coordinating
alternative options for parents, educators, health and human service professionals, faith - based counselors, legislators, and the
public at - large, CRC is able to help reduce divorce and strengthen
families through custody reform; parental mediation and training; conciliation and access; parental financial and educational support systems; legislative revision and court briefs.
Families for Excellent Schools, an education reform group that supporters charter schools, will call on the state to lift the cap on the
alternative public schools.
«If more residents knew their building was burning dirty fuel that was bad for the health of their
families and their neighbors, they might be more likely to push their landlord to switch to a clean
alternative,» says Diana Hernández, the study's senior author and assistant professor of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia's Mailman School of
Public Health.
The desire for an
alternative to a neighborhood
public school was strong for the
families who applied to the OSP in 2004 and 2005.
In 2017, the New Mexico
Public Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter school moratorium by noting, «The
families of New Mexico continue to seek
alternative, quality choices for the education of their children.
Families have to be low - income to receive a voucher in Louisiana so
public schools represent the main plausible
alternative.
If the new information surprises respondents by indicating the district is doing less well than previously thought, the
public, upon learning the truth of the matter, is likely to 1) lower its evaluation of local schools; 2) become more supportive of educational
alternatives for
families; 3) alter thinking about current policies affecting teacher compensation and retention; and 4) reassess its thinking about school and student accountability policies.
School choice is a term for K — 12
public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their
families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their
family residence.
Issued in the spring of 1972, the panel's final report predicted that, unless steps were taken,
alternatives to
public schools would all but disappear; the greatest impact, the report noted, would be felt in «large urban centers, with especially grievous consequences for poor and lower middle - class
families in racially changing neighborhoods where the nearby nonpublic school is an indispensable stabilizing factor.»
LEAs may use for this purpose either the same source of data used to select and allocate funds among
public schools (i.e., usually free or free and reduced - price school lunch data) or one of a specified range of
alternatives, such as data from an income survey of private school
families, private school scholarship applications, or estimates based on the assumption that the percentage of students attending a private school who are from low - income
families is the same as that for
public school students who reside in the same geographic area.
For far too many
families, especially poor
families, charters are the only
alternative to neighborhood
public schools that are little more than a
public embarrassment.
Atlanta, May 7, 2014 — For
families seeking
public school
alternatives, charter schools are a hoped - for option in Georgia.
«Distances between schools and communities make finding an
alternative to the
public - school system a logistical impossibility for many students and
families as well.»
For well over two decades,
public charter schools have existed in Oakland — not just as an
alternative for
families, but as an opportunity to... Read More
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When
public school just isn't working to help a child succeed and meet his or her fullest potential, it's not uncommon for
families to start to consider
alternative options for elementary, middle or high school education.
Online schools often become schools of last resort, and for many
families they are the only
public school
alternative available.»
In the face of newfound competition,
public school leaders are looking for ways to keep
families from considering the jump to
alternative providers.
The 11 cyber charter schools in Pennsylvania through 2012 have been popular among
families seeking
alternatives to the traditional
public schools, but their quality has been called into question because most of their students have been unable to reach state benchmarks on math and reading tests.
Lawmakers pushed for school vouchers, arguing that North Carolina's
public schools are failing its low - income and minority students and that
families should have the choice — at the expense of taxpayers — to send their students to private schools as an
alternative.
While proponents of the program say it offers low - income
families access to better education
alternatives than what may be offered by
public schools, critics point to the fact that there is not enough accountability associated with the state - funded program.
The teachers» association and school boards fear that if low - income
families begin to follow their wealthier peers to private schools that offer an education that parents prefer to that of the
public schools, the low - performing
public schools will no longer have a captive clientele with no
alternative but to accept the inadequate education offered there.
While conducting research for a 2016 CAP report that highlighted the extent of the misalignment between work and school schedules, the authors found that
public charter schools had many
family - friendly
alternatives to traditional school schedules.
In some communities a majority of affluent
families have moved away or found
alternatives to the
public schools.
«Effective charter schools provide options for
families for quality
public school
alternatives.»
Nerad announced a year ago the creation of a committee to explore
alternatives to traditional
public schools, partly as a way to keep middle class
families from leaving the district.
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Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics offering advice, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs,
family mediation services, social justice tribunals, and court procedures simplification projects,
public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.
[6]
Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types; self - help webpages; phone - in services; paralegal and law student programs;
family mediation services; social justice tribunals; and court procedures simplification projects; arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution;
public legal education information services; programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service); pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases; and, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.
But, if you or those benchers and law professors had a close
family member who had a serious legal problem, would you be content to send them to programs such as: the law societies» «
alternative legal services»; the NSRLP (National Self - Represented Litigants Project); or the Canadian Bar Association's «For the
Public» webpage?
[iii]
Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs,
family mediation services, social justice tribunals, court procedures simplification projects, arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution,
public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide all of the legal services necessary), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be more effective self - represented litigants.
St. Catharines
family lawyer and mediator Sharon Silbert will share her thoughts on
alternatives to litigation in
family law at an event hosted by the Toronto
Public Library on May 13.
Next Generation Divorce is a 501 (c)(3) organization and network of independent attorneys, financial professionals, and mental health professionals dedicated to educating the
public about collaborative
family law as a healthier
alternative to the adversarial divorce court system.
St. Catharines
family lawyer and mediator Sharon Silbert will share her thoughts on
alternatives to litigation in
family law at an event hosted by the Toronto
Public... Read more
There are Atlanta
family law attorneys who only do Collaborative Divorces confirming that the
public is now aware there are
alternatives to a conventional divorce.
Collaborative practice (which is variously referred to as collaborative divorce, collaborative law, collaborative model, or collaborative process) is a relatively new form of
alternative dispute resolution which takes divorce and other
family law cases out of the
public courtroom and into a private office.
Collaborative practice has mainly been used in the area of divorce and
family law as an
alternative to
public courtroom fights.
(SAN DIEGO)-- The Collaborative
Family Law Group of San Diego (CFLG San Diego), a non-profit group of legal, financial, and mental health professionals trained in the Collaborative Process as an
alternative to divorce litigation, has retained the Falcon Valley Group (FVG), an independent
public relations consulting practice, to represent the organization.
Practice groups are oftentimes also used to help educate the
public about this form of
alternative dispute resolution that is most often utilized in divorce and
family law matters.
By guiding, informing, and coordinating
alternative options for parents, educators, health and human service professionals, faith - based counselors, legislators, and the
public at - large, CRC is able to help reduce divorce and strengthen
families through custody reform; parental mediation and training; conciliation and access; parental financial and educational support systems; legislative revision and court briefs.
Programs coordinated by school districts,
alternative learning programs, and
family service collaboratives assist pregnant and parenting adolescents to make significant academic gains; prevent child abuse and neglect; reduce long - term dependence on
public assistance; and improve the outcomes for adolescent parents and their children.