Sentences with phrase «free public schools of choice»

Charter schools are tuition - free public schools of choice financed through local, state, and federal funds which are operated independently of the local school boards.

All Imagine schools are tuition - free public schools of choice.

Charter public schools in Santa Clara County accomplish all of these objectives, as free public schools of choice serving all students.

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Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cSchools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cschools controlling their choices.

The goal of these school choice «patriots» was to free teachers to practice their craft in new and innovative ways, including by opening their own public or private schools, and to empower parents with greater choice and influence over their children's education.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»

He argued that teachers should be granted charters to run public schools of choice, free from the regulations that frustrate teachers, but subject to strict accountability requirements.

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.

At least six other programs, some of them dating to the 1970s, give participating students a free choice of public, private or religious schools.

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.

Setting up a public school choice program, or free tutoring program, or intervening in failing schools — all of this is hard under the best of circumstances.

We have a unique network of 13 charter schools across Texas that are tuition - free, open enrollment, public high schools of choice, welcoming students from all walks of life.

KIPP is a network of free, public charter schools open to all students that prepare students in underserved communities for success in college and choice - filled lives.

Choice has been the rallying cry for defenders of charter schools, voucher systems and other contrivances that purport to free students from oppressive public school structures.

Outside the office, Alysson serves on the governing board of the Choice Foundation, and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Lycée Français de la Nouvelle - Orléans, a free French immersion public charter school in New Orleans that reserves two - thirds of its seats for students of low - income and at - risk backgrounds.

How Music Got Free: The End of an Industry, the Turn of the Century, and the Patient Zero of Piracy: Be they school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to believe that their favored solution will transform American public education.

As my Choice Watch report (Cotto & Feder, 2014) demonstrated, charter schools in Connecticut tend to serve a relatively more advantaged group of (mostly) Black and Latinx children including fewer children with disabilities, emerging bilingual children, and children eligible for free and reduced priced meals compared to the students in local public schools in the same cities as the charter schools.

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Sequoia Choice — Arizona Distance Learning, founded in 1998, is a tuition - free Arizona public charter school authorized by the Arizona Department of Education to provide distance learning services to Arizona students in grades K - 12.

Empower Mississippi is proud to be part of a long list of supporters for this legislation that also includes Arizona Federation for Children, Arizona Free Enterprise Club, Arizona School Choice Trust, Choose A School, Christian Schools of Arizona, Foundation for Excellence in Education, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, Goldwater Institute, Institute for Better Education, Institute for Justice, Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Step up for Students, and TOPS for Kids.

Sequoia Choice — Arizona Distance Learning is a tuition - free Arizona public charter school and Legal Educational Agency of Edkey, Inc., a not - for - profit 501 (c)(3) corporation.

Charter schools are public schools of choice that are tuition - free, have open enrollment, and serve all students.

When the charter school legislation passed in 1997, veteran teachers sought to create an alternative school that provided a free public school choice for all members of the Norwich area.

Charter schools are public schools of choice that are tuition - free and open to all.

New Orleans's charter school experiment is built on the notion that the invisible hand of the free market, made manifest in «unprecedented» parental choice, will improve the quality of public schools through competition.

We are a public school of choice, providing tuition - free Montessori education to students in grades K - 8.

Coastal Academy is a dynamic, tuition - free public charter school of choice serving grades TK - 8.

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

School choice and a publicly - supported voucher system would inevitably lead to a mass exodus of students from the public school system, thus endangering the currently competition - free atmosphere that teachers currently School choice and a publicly - supported voucher system would inevitably lead to a mass exodus of students from the public school system, thus endangering the currently competition - free atmosphere that teachers currently school system, thus endangering the currently competition - free atmosphere that teachers currently enjoy.

Charter schools are tuition free, public schools of choice open to any student.

The Florida public - school establishment is suing to repeal the Sunshine State's 13 - year - old school - choice tax credit and its new education savings accounts under the state's Blaine Amendment and its «uniformity clause,» which mandates that «Adequate provision shall be made by law for a uniform, efficient, safe, secure, and high quality system of free public schools...» The Florida Supreme Court previously struck down the state's voucher program under this provision in Bush v. Holmes (2006), on the grounds that the vouchers «divert [ed] public dollars» from «the sole means set out in the Constitution for the state to provide for the education of Florida's children.»

Charter schools are tuition - free, open enrollment, public schools of choice.1 Unlike traditional public schools, which are governed by local boards of education, charter schools are governed by independent, nonprofit boards and are accountable to an authorizing entity, which may close them if they fail to meet the goals delineated in their charter contract.

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The numbers, distributed at recent speeches by Mecklenburg County attorney Richard Vinroot, a former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate who's a major figure in North Carolina's school choice movement, claim that the state's charters serve a greater percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as well as special education classes than do traditional public schools.

States would have to set aside 3 percent of their Title I funds for a competitive - grant program that would allow districts to offer public school choice or free tutoring.