Sentences with phrase «for educational choice children»

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It is for this reason that parents should be given the right to send their children to schools of their choice, provided certain minimal standards of safety and competency are satisfied, and should not be required to utilize state educational facilities.

This perspective unmistakably reveals the unwholesomeness, not to put it more strongly, of our way of life: our obsession with sex, violence, and the pornography of «making it;» our addictive dependence on drugs, «entertainment,» and the evening news; our impatience with anything that limits our sovereign freedom of choice, especially with the constraints of marital and familial ties; our preference for «nonbinding commitments;» our third - rate educational system; our third - rate morality; our refusal to draw a distinction between right and wrong, lest we «impose» their morality on us; our reluctance to judge or be judged; our indifference to the needs of future generations, as evidence by our willingness to saddle them with a huge national debt, an overgrown arsenal of destruction, and a deteriorating environment; our unsated assumption, which underlies so much of the propaganda for unlimited abortion, that only those children born for success ought to be allowed to be born at all.

Regardless of the educational options available or schooling choices made for their own children, Christians can serve and strengthen public schools through volunteering as tutors or reading partners.

Our mission is to promote, encourage and applaud children's enthusiasm for school and learning; take the mystery and anxiety out of the school finding process for parents; and provide families with comprehensive information on all of their educational choices.

With your help, we also review educational toys and books, and give recommendations to show you how to make the best choices for your children.

No matter what the occasion, a baby shower, baby's first birthday, or a successful graduation from kindergarten, Haba Toys are the perfect choice for safe, fun, educational toys for children from birth through school.

Choice of Champions Child Development, located in Stone Mountain, Georgia, is an early childhood center that offers educational day care programs for preschool children.

These educational toys hold up well through multiple children, making them a great choice for families as well as staples of preschool and kindergarten classrooms.

We work with you and your family to make sure that you understand the information about your child's hearing loss and the treatment, educational and communication choices that are available for your child.

The bill also aims to give families more choice and control over support for children with special educational needs (SEN).

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

Laura Lavine (LR): Families of financial means who are interested in making educational choices for their children often, in the city of Syracuse, choose to send their children to non-public schools, or they leave the city all together.

Producer Kristin Canty's film, Farmageddon, documents as her quest to find healthy food for her four children turns into an educational journey to discover why she is denied the freedom to select thefoods of her choice from the producer of her choice.

But true educational choice, and the educational market it could help foster, promise to radically improve education for many children.

• Or will a «grand agreement» unite them under a banner of parent empowerment that places family educational choice at the core of K — 12 reform, regardless of what educational option a parent chooses for a child — district, charter, or private?

With the school - choice alternative, for example, parents wanting the best education for their child often need financial means and knowledge of the educational options to make an informed choice of another school, resources not always available in low - income communities.

«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.»

The study, involving 8,000 families, looked at how school choice was affected by parents» education, household income and their educational aspirations for children, as well as why some families later decided to switch schools.

by Brett Wigdortz, founder and CEO, Teach First; Fair access: Making school choice and admissions work for all by Rebecca Allen, reader in the economics of education at the Institute of Education, University of London; School accountability, performance and pupil attainment by Simon Burgess, professor of economics at the University of Bristol, and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation; The importance of teaching by Dylan Wiliam, emeritus professor at the Institute of Education, University of London; Reducing within - school variation and the role of middle leadership by James Toop, ceo of Teaching Leaders; The importance of collaboration: Creating «families of schools» by Tim Brighouse, a former teacher and chief education officer of Oxfordshire and Birmingham; Testing times: Reforming classroom teaching through assessment by Christine Harrison, senior lecturer in science education at King's College London; Tackling pupil disengagement: Making the curriculum more engaging by David Price, author and educational consultant; Beyond the school gates: Developing children's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University ofchildren's zones for England by Alan Dyson, professor of education at the University of Manchester and co-director of the Centre for Equity in Education, Kirstin Kerr, lecturer in education at the University of Manchester and Chris Wellings, head of programme policy in Save the Children's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University ofChildren's UK Programme; After school: Promoting opportunities for all young people in a locality by Ann Hodgson, professor of education and director of the Learning for London @IOE Research Centre, Institute of Education, University of London and Ken Spours, professor or education and co-director of the Centre for Post-14 Research and Innovation at the Institute of Education, University of London.

Finally, charters and other public school choice policies — strengthened in 35 states — continue to empower parents to seek out the best educational opportunities for their children.

With automated gates now an increasingly popular choice for school and educational buildings, it is absolutely crucial that the strictest safety measures are upheld to protect our children, whilst in the care of others.

Fourth is a call to «empower» parents by providing them with more information to make better educational choices for their children.

Speaking of his choice to buy gifts with an educational value, James Longhurst, whose son is four years old, commented: «As a parent I know how annoying it can be when your children get lots of plastic toys for Christmas that rarely get played with and are a nightmare to store around the house.

The Children's Food Trust has been supporting educational and children's settings to provide better meals since the organisation was set up in 2007 and is the ideal choice to help schools prepare for the implementation of universal infant free school meals in SeChildren's Food Trust has been supporting educational and children's settings to provide better meals since the organisation was set up in 2007 and is the ideal choice to help schools prepare for the implementation of universal infant free school meals in Sechildren's settings to provide better meals since the organisation was set up in 2007 and is the ideal choice to help schools prepare for the implementation of universal infant free school meals in September.

SCHOOL CHOICE A third area on which there is broad agreement is that parents should have educational choices for their children.

But for Washington, D.C., we believe two strong sectors — charter and traditional — offer the best prospect that families will have many quality educational choices for their children.

Yet, opponents of parent choice and other transformational education reform initiatives continue to place one obstacle after another in the path of parents seeking the power to choose the best educational environment for their children and / or to fundamentally change some of the systems that purport to educate their children.

It would enable families to send their children to any school of choice, but also to purchase additional educational tools — such as textbooks, online courses, and educational therapies — to have the greatest chance of success for their children.

At the midway point of this year's National School Choice Week — a celebration of effective educational options for all children — what strikes me is how much choice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the sChoice Week — a celebration of effective educational options for all children — what strikes me is how much choice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the schoice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the school.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, and its state affiliate, the Louisiana Federation for Children, celebrates the beginning of Black History Month and recognizes importance of educational choice nationwide.

For the same reason that accepting a scholarship moved families from the object of a conversation to the subject of a conversation about educational opportunity, these same families» decisions to leave one school and to keep their child enrolled in a school of their choice for as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.&raqFor the same reason that accepting a scholarship moved families from the object of a conversation to the subject of a conversation about educational opportunity, these same families» decisions to leave one school and to keep their child enrolled in a school of their choice for as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.&raqfor as long as the option is available are, in my opinion, examples of «the complete school choice journey.»

Pondiscio generally favors educational choice, agreeing that «markets have proven more effective than mandates in improving outcomes for low - income children.»

Presumably, the choice of sectors and schools allowed parents to obtain an educational setting they view as appropriate for their child.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, is pleased to announce Governor Eric Holcomb will address AFC's National Policy Summit, Monday, May 22 and Tuesday, May 23 in Indianapolis.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, issued the following statement in response to the NAACP ratifying an anti-public charter school proposal.

«Teach Choice,» the 2016 American Federation for Children National Policy Summit is May 16 - 17 in Washington, D.C. Join «the nation's voice for educational choice,» our allies and supporters as we network and problem solve to provide quality educational opportunities to every Choice,» the 2016 American Federation for Children National Policy Summit is May 16 - 17 in Washington, D.C. Join «the nation's voice for educational choice,» our allies and supporters as we network and problem solve to provide quality educational opportunities to every choice,» our allies and supporters as we network and problem solve to provide quality educational opportunities to every child.

Today, the Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, congratulates the next U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and applauds the U.S. Senate for voting to confirm an Education Secretary who will put children and familieChildren, the state's voice for educational choice, congratulates the next U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, and applauds the U.S. Senate for voting to confirm an Education Secretary who will put children and familiechildren and families first.

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Today, the American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, released the following statement after today's event at the White House with students from the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP):

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, released the following statements.

We are a school of choice and we offer a specific educational environment which may work very well for some children and not as well for others.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice and its state affiliate, the Louisiana Federation for Children, celebrated a decision from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in ruling against the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to regulate and undermine the state's private school choice program, the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

In other positive news for Louisiana's educational choice program, the LEAP (Louisiana Educational Assessment Program) and iLEAP (Integrated Louisiana Educational Assessment Program) scores were released in May, which demonstrated positive growth in test scores for children using the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

The Tennessee Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, celebrates Tennessee's primary election results as voters turned out in support of school choice candidates.

LFC supports a wide range of educational choice initiatives, so that high quality public, charter and private schools flourish and parents will have the opportunity to select the quality school that works best for their children, and so that teachers will have the flexibility to select the school that best utilizes their strengths and interests.

Good Morning «Teach Choice,» the 2016 American Federation for Children National Policy Summit is May 16 - 17 in Washington, D.C. Join «the nation's voice for educational choice,» our allies and supporters as we network and problem solve to provide quality educational opportunities to every Choice,» the 2016 American Federation for Children National Policy Summit is May 16 - 17 in Washington, D.C. Join «the nation's voice for educational choice,» our allies and supporters as we network and problem solve to provide quality educational opportunities to every choice,» our allies and supporters as we network and problem solve to provide quality educational opportunities to every child.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, today announced that Paul C. Shiverick will join the board of the American Federation for Children (AFC) and its associated non-profit, American Federation for Children Growth Fund (AFC Growth Fund).

The Louisiana Federation for Children is a state project of the American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, and the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), a national leader in reforming education, encourage both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to embrace school choice in their official party platforms.