Sentences with phrase «for the school choice movement»

The year is shaping up to be momentous for the school choice movement as well, though again the long - term implications remain misty.

CLEVELAND — Donald Trump made a renewed pitch here Thursday for the school choice movement — at a charter school that has received failing grades from the Ohio Department of Education for its students» performance and progress on state math and reading tests.

Overall, May has been a good month for the school choice movement despite a few lawsuits involving the teachers unions (so what else is new?).

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos celebrated the Trinity decision as a victory for the school choice movement, which has gained momentum and stands to expand under the Trump administration.

Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, two of Wisconsin's biggest cheerleaders for the school choice movement, have attended the signing days.

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Bob McManus: «Cuomo, and even some charter - school advocates, are projecting Albany's just - adopted budget as a modest win for the state's hard - pressed school - choice movement.

The movement has formally gone from a position of opposition to vaccines to one of parental choice — although surely schools, with responsibility for children's wellbeing, should advocate vaccination.

Consider the movement for school choice, which represents the most far - reaching movement for change in American education.

For that to happen, small schools must mature into a stronger movement by formulating serious proposals for assessments and accountability, throwing their vocal political support behind school choice, and insisting on new, innovative efforts to reduce the learning curve for those who wish to start small schools and their overseeFor that to happen, small schools must mature into a stronger movement by formulating serious proposals for assessments and accountability, throwing their vocal political support behind school choice, and insisting on new, innovative efforts to reduce the learning curve for those who wish to start small schools and their overseefor assessments and accountability, throwing their vocal political support behind school choice, and insisting on new, innovative efforts to reduce the learning curve for those who wish to start small schools and their overseefor those who wish to start small schools and their overseers.

New York's charter school movement mobilizes parents to march across the Brooklyn Bridge and gather in annual rallies to demand better choices for students.

As a new Administration takes shape in Washington, with an education leader who has long been an advocate of parental choice, the charter school movement needs to redouble its efforts to turn happy parents into active warriors for charter schools and school choice.

Jewish Day school alumni attend their first - choice college at about the same rate as Jewish students who graduated from a public or other private school, says a report by the Partnership for Excellence in Jewish Education, a Boston - based organization that seeks to strengthen the Jewish day school movement.

The professionalization movement among teachers includes a sharp focus on certification and on the importance of holding a master's degree, so I was interested in how choice affects schools» demand for such credentials.

By making equal opportunity a central theme of the movement, organizations such as the BAEO, the Friedman Foundation (established by Milton and Rose Friedman and now known as EdChoice), Democrats for Education Reform, and other groups in favor of school choice have put Republican support at risk by emphasizing the role that vouchers can play in opening school doors to the disadvantaged.

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The choice movement has been pushing for vouchers and tax credits since the 1980s, and as of 2013 these reforms still allow only about 200,000 children to attend private schools with government assistance.

The movement is generally supported by school leaders, who say that they must be able to have a choice in the selection of talent in their building if they are to be held accountable for achievement results.

Those data have driven the contemporary reform movement, lending it the moral authority to push for higher standards, parental choice, and charter schools.

Such resistance has dogged the school choice movement for years, producing a fog of politics cleared all too rarely by moments of forthrightness.

The question of how we can most effectively broaden school choice for America's families lies at the heart of the movement to reform K — 12 education.

This longstanding and elsewhere - embraced view is at odds with that of many libertarians in the school - choice movement, for whom the State is always and everywhere to be resisted.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

The growth of for - profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school choice movement, is rooted in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize public education, offering high quality at reduced cost.

I'm biased; it's run by a friend, Kevin Teasley, who has been around the choice and charter schools movement for a long time, and once even dabbled in punditry and policy wonkery.

The new movement for privatization has enabled school choice to transcend its tarnished history as an escape route for southern whites who sought to avoid court - ordered desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s.

At that time — a full 25 years ago — few imagined his prescription for creating new, responsive schools in the spirit of choice, innovation, and diversity would evolve into a nationwide movement.

I joined the school choice movement because I wanted to use what skills I have to make a difference for future families.

Something of a patron saint and unifying voice for battle - fatigued public school teachers across the country, Ravitch was in Oakland for the fourth annual conference of the Network for Public Education (NPE), the largest gathering of education reformers opposed to the corporate - styled privatization of the «school choice» movement.

One key argument has been raised against the movement for school choice: that schools of choice, whether created through charter alternatives or through voucher programs, will undermine the common culture.

These legal challenges stalled reform and kept the school choice movement fighting for a clear identity.

After all, the movement for schools of choice is based on a greater commitment to freedom than to equality.

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The choice movement, which includes vouchers for private school tuition and the creation of charter schools, sought better education through the market mechanism of having parents choose which schools their children would attend.

School choice is a controversial movement that advocates for parents to «choose» the school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their chiSchool choice is a controversial movement that advocates for parents to «choose» the school (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their chischool (public, private, religious, charter, home, online) they feel is best for their children.

The school choice movement is on the rise in North Carolina, where advocates hosted a celebration Tuesday to mark their gains and to press for more opportunities for families to attend options other than traditional public schools.

«For the Center for American Progress Action Fund and American Federation of Teachers to conflate segregationists» tactics of the past with the present - day school choice movement is an insult to the nearly 440,000 parents nationwide who use private school choice options to level the playing fieFor the Center for American Progress Action Fund and American Federation of Teachers to conflate segregationists» tactics of the past with the present - day school choice movement is an insult to the nearly 440,000 parents nationwide who use private school choice options to level the playing fiefor American Progress Action Fund and American Federation of Teachers to conflate segregationists» tactics of the past with the present - day school choice movement is an insult to the nearly 440,000 parents nationwide who use private school choice options to level the playing field.

«The newest and one of the most potent arguments for advancing school choice in Pennsylvania has been pressed forward by state Sen. Anthony Williams, D - Philadelphia, and a handful of urban lawmakers who see the issue as the next step in the civil rights movement.»

The charter movement has transformed public education, and heralded in an era in which parents and communities can create schools of choice for their children and have greater flexibility and richer learning environments in exchange for added accountability.

(Hanover, MD, January 15, 2013) Charter schools are the cornerstone of the movement to expand school choice options for families which has revolutionized public K - 12 education over the past two decades.

For his part, Poston says he understands the movement to increase parental control in public education, but he called for fairness — and honesty — in how policymakers and advocates build regulations for emerging school choice optioFor his part, Poston says he understands the movement to increase parental control in public education, but he called for fairness — and honesty — in how policymakers and advocates build regulations for emerging school choice optiofor fairness — and honesty — in how policymakers and advocates build regulations for emerging school choice optiofor emerging school choice options.

The main incentive for conservatives to ignore less appealing aspects of the bill and pass it was the inclusion of a provision to allow the portability of Title 1 funds, which many believed important to the School Choice movement.

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But charter schools and the parental choice movement that goes along with them have also become rallying cries for conservative groups and the Tea Party movement that's praised the business - like approach to education and want to see a larger expansion of the schools.

Chester Finn, an influential conservative policy analyst who worked in the Reagan Department of Education, put his finger on the educational pulse of our age when he wrote that «holding schools» — and teachers — «to account for their students» academic achievement» was the only educational policy [along with the choice movement] that made sense in a «post-Coleman» world.

«This is a hallmark of corporate school reform and the school choice movement, and it is not the right direction for MMSD.»

«This is an exciting year for charter schools, given the emphasis by President Obama's Administration, as well as our own state leaders, on things such as parent choice and academic achievement, which are the core values of our movement,» said Jed Wallace, President and CEO of CCSA.

One can imagine movement conservatives opposing the expansion of school choice because it allows for the launch of charter schools whose politically - driven missions they will likely oppose (such as, say, Cesar Chavez in D.C. or the charter schools run by adherents of the Gulen Movement) as well as for the provision of vouchers that allow kids to attend Catholic schools.

He spent the first five years of the 2000s as a leader in the national movement to expand school choice options for low - income parents.

School choice has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, with literally millions of students benefiting from the choice movement, precisely because most studies have shown that school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public scSchool choice has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two decades, with literally millions of students benefiting from the choice movement, precisely because most studies have shown that school choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public scschool choice programs help improve educational outcomes — for students who receive private school scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public scschool scholarships, those who attend public charter schools, and those who remain in traditional public schools.