Sentences with phrase «free educational choices»

His reasoning is that the free educational choices of parents alone are insufficient to ensure that choice - based reforms benefit the public by generating actual improvements in student learning.

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Equal and free access to residential housing (housing choice) is a fundamental right that enables members of the protected classes to pursue personal, educational, employment or other goals.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

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 September.

The schools will open under the government's free schools programme to offer parents more choice and help raise educational standards.

To learn more about how educational choice benefits students — and how defenders of the status quo are attempting to use the courts to deprive families of that choice — watch the Cato Institute's short documentary, «Live Free and Learn»:

All of which makes one thing obvious: The only system of learning compatible with a truly free society is not one of government domination, but one rooted in educational choice — public education, not schooling — in which the public assures that all people can access education, but parents are free to choose their children's schools and educators are free to educate how they wish.

Candidates should possess exceptional writing skills, be attentive to detail and have a strong commitment to individual freedom, as well as an interest in property rights, free speech issues, educational choice and economic liberty.

Voucher programs that give recipients the free and independent choice of an array of providers, including faith - based organizations, have a long and established history in Arizona, including six different educational voucher programs that help more than 22,000 students annually attend the public, private or religious school of their choice.

Interesting to note that Andreas Schleicher / the OECD is arguing that the role of parental choice and free schools in Sweden has contributed to the deterioration of the country's international rankings and exacerbated educational inequality.

«Ultimately, we believe this will pave the way for all U.S. students to be free of the yolk of the Blaine Amendment and exercise their free choice in educational opportunities,» Keven Larsen, the president of the Douglas County School Board, said during a news conference responding to the ruling.

While it seems ironic that programs intended to give parents a genuine and free choice between district, charter and private educational options could be construed to limit and constrain choice, no such characterization can be made of the Arizona Empowerment Scholarship Account program.

Here, educational choice means that parents are free to choose whatever option works for their families, whether that's tax - credit scholarships, vouchers, homeschooling, district - run schools, magnets, virtual programs and / or charter schools.

Our experiences and surmises are remarkably similar: you think Dr. Bengtsson did what he did upon realizing he'd endangered his reputation and with it exposed himself to increased opposition from those who would now realize what he stands for; that he understood better how his free choice would impact his ability to gain the respectability of being published by respectable publishers; that he figured out the grant opportunities gained by open alliance with the tax - free «educational charity» that has a surprising amount of money for media campaigns and spectacle would not balance the grants he'd lose from people who consider association with a transparent tax fraud scheme a bad thing; and, ultimately that he had betrayed the trust of his valued colleagues by exposing them to such scandal.