Sentences with phrase «for educational choice initiatives»

Not surprisingly, low - income and minority families who currently have the fewest educational options express the most support for educational choice initiatives.

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In a letter to Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, Community Board 2 has called on the Department of Education to approve plans for Hunts Point High School for Sustainable Community Initiatives, a school to prepare students for green jobs, saying the school «is capable of changing the landscape and mindset of the area and making Hunts Point a preeminent educational and vocational destination of choice.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

These interventions have included, for example, various educational curricula, teacher professional development programs, school choice programs, educational software, and data - driven school reform initiatives.

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.