Sentences with phrase «first school choice week»

The first School Choice Week campaign push earlier this year featured highly produced press packets, sample letters to the editor, a sign in Times Square and rallies for virtual and charter schools organized with help from the Koch brothers» Americans for Prosperity.

Not exact matches

A popular choice for teachers to read the first day / week of school.

The meeting was scheduled smack in the middle of early decision notification week, when students who have applied exclusively to their first choice school find out if they've been admitted, so there was lots of hand wringing and Monday morning quarterbacking to be done.

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio named Houston Superintendent Richard Carranza to lead city's schools less than a week after his first choice fell through.

Join us next week as the American Federation for Children releases its first ever school choice Report Card.

WHAT: «Thank you» rally, in partnership with National School Choice Week, Empower Mississippi, Mississippi First, and the Mississippi Charter Schools Association.

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos kicked off her first public speech Wednesday by casting the protestors who sought to block her from visiting a Washington, D.C., middle school last week as part of a divisive opposition that's resistant to fresh ideas... And DeVos, who didn't face protestors Wednesday, praised magnet schools, which are public schools organized around a particular subject area such as arts or technology, as «the original school choice option.»

For the best chance of being assigned to your school of choice, be sure to submit your application anytime during the first registration period, which typically ends during the first week of February.

Perkins said based on reports released this week, the school was selected as a first or second choice by more parents than any year prior.

When the question is framed in the most ludicrous fashion — do students in the first 3 weeks of school do as well on a multiple - choice test when they have 1) a veteran teacher 2) a first - year traditionally - trained teacher 3) a TFA person — well, I guess it might be hard to distinguish.

A student that graduated from truck driving school last week is often not the insurance company's first choice.