Sentences with phrase «federal choice initiatives»

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The implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA); debates about a potential large - scale federal school - choice initiative; and deep disagreements about civil rights enforcement continue to captivate — and roil — all of us involved in education policy, in D.C. and around the nation.

Plus, if districts don't spend the required amount on choice or tutoring (a sum equal to 20 percent of their federal Title I allocation), they can use these dollars for their own initiatives.

RH: When he was a candidate, President Trump talked about launching a big federal school choice initiative.

Importantly, the successful provision of information related to college choice through initiatives like ECO-C is likely to magnify the return to existing federal and state aid policies, while the return to high - cost interventions such as expanding the Pell grant program is likely to be very limited unless students possess sufficient information about college alternatives.

With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.

President Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

IHEP leads the Postsecondary Data Collaborative, an initiative to advocate for the use of high - quality postsecondary data to promote student success and educational equity, evaluate and inform federal, state and institutional policies, and empower college choices.

President Donald Trump's budget proposal to provide federal tax money for private - school scholarships is getting pushback from an unconventional source: groups known for promoting school - choice initiatives.

Federal judges who oversee desegregation plans in Louisiana are wrestling with that issue at a time when President Trump wants to spend billions of dollars on charter schools, vouchers and other «school choice» initiatives.

A new, large - scale federal initiative could constrain the prospects for widespread, long - term educational improvements, ultimately harming the good school - choice work being done in the states.

President Donald Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

Recently, the budget requests they laid out for federal funding of school choice initiatives were not endorsed by the House.

In a similar proposal to last year, the Trump administration said Monday that it wants to spend more federal dollars on a school choice program — which includes private school vouchers — and less on after - school initiatives and teacher training.

As an aside, it's worth noting that Gallup asked Americans for their opinion on a federally funded school choice program, and there's plenty of discussion right now in the educational choice community about what role, if any, the federal government should have in an initiative that has been largely driven at the state level for the past quarter - century.