Sentences with phrase «from educational choice»

Cooperation between and among all public schools, including charter schools, should be maintained to ensure that innovations stemming from educational choice benefit all students.

Whether introducing or reviewing legislation, policymakers can expect certain outcomes from educational choice based on how proposals are crafted.

Not exact matches

During the year's first multi-week session, young people, ages 7 - 17, will benefit from educational programs geared to build character, instill life - enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.

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.

They are a great choice for parents who are keen to introduce their baby to some educational books from an early age.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Science communication and educational outreach are popular career choices for scientists keen to use their scientific training away from the bench.

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.

ESAs constitute a critical refinement of Friedman's voucher idea, moving from school choice to educational choice.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

Cybercharter advocates and entrepreneurs are not surprised at the criticism (and lawsuits, nearly all of which have been unsuccessful) they have been handed from public school districts, Democratic legislators resistant to educational choice initiatives, and teachers unions.

Now, in an era when choice and competition in education are gaining acceptance among both parents and policymakers, it is the educational community itself that may need to heed a lesson from the past.

Let's briefly review the results from the three rigorous examinations of the effect of private school choice on educational attainment.

«In fact,» Hess concludes, «educational competition can not be divorced from discussions about testing, teacher certification, school district governance, educational administration, or other frustrating conversations that many school choice proponents have long wished to avoid.

Among the central conclusions to emerge from our comparison of these distinctive groups: A teacher's overall level of confidence in educational technology translates into a distinct set of behaviors, perceptions, and choices in the classroom.

But it at least suggests that we may have less to fear from school choice than from the continual struggle to establish one educational «faith» through the vehicle of the common school.

[3] Just as voucher holders may benefit from a real estate broker to find housing in a high - opportunity neighborhood, low - income families in school choice systems with limited information about high - performing schools could benefit from an adviser who connects them to educational opportunities.

By enriching the Alimentarium Academy online educational platform with new resources for the younger population, the Alimentarium and Discovery Education are together making an important contribution to raising consciousness worldwide for more informed choices from an early age.»

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.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

This is not just about saving money it is about giving schools the chance to make the right educational choices and helping them ensure that they are getting the maximum life from the equipment and resources that they buy.

Smarick's study, «The Chartered Course,» explores how private schools and advocates of educational choice can learn from the charter sector.

Over the decade, we have witnessed — perhaps contributed to — the advance of school reform: the proliferation of school choice from vouchers to tax credits, charters, and online learning; the evolution of accountability's focus from schools to teachers; renewed attention to national standards; and a more realistic understanding of the uncertain connection between educational expenditures and school quality.

Researchers from the Urban Institute have released a study looking at how long it takes students to travel from home to school in five different cities where families have a significant amount of educational choice.

This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or public school choice priority.

Once a year, the EdChoice team invites educational choice advocates — from parents to policymakers to communications professionals — to participate in our media training in Indianapolis.

One option, given the high rate of students from low - income families in CEP schools, is to simply consider all students in these schools to be from low - income families for accountability purposes, including eligibility for supplemental educational services and school choice priority, where relevant.

If a Title I school fails to meet AYP standards for a third year, students from low - income families in the school must be offered the opportunity to receive instruction from a supplemental educational services provider of their choice, in addition to continuing to be offered public school choice options.

The parental - choice aspect of chartering counters these tendencies by drawing educational authority away from a single state body and redistributing it to families.

Thus, states and LEAs are also allowed the options of identifying students from low - income families in CEP schools through state or LEA income surveys or CEP's Identified Students (preferably updated annually), including eligibility for supplemental educational services and school choice priority, where relevant.

ESAs represent a move from school choice to educational choice because families can use ESA funds to pay for a lot more than just private school tuition.

Yes, I'm a big believer in the benefits of empowering low - income families with educational choice, but I'm not interested in having disadvantaged boys and girls transfer from lousy district schools to lousy private schools.

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.»

It's a miracle the charter movement in Connecticut has been able to get to its 20th anniversary despite the endless vitriol, hatred, and constant attacks from people who do not want to give parents real educational choice.

Families that participate in school choice programs are not the only ones who benefit from expanded educational options.

10 solid victories for educational choice, despite well - funded special interest attacks from Tennessee arm of National Education Association.

In addition to the non-fiscal benefits attached to educational choice, the program can relieve pressure for district budgets from rising pension costs (for each one million dollars spent on the program, I estimated that the state would save almost half of that amount, while school districts would save almost $ 700,000).

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 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.

Every day I read, share and learn from articles, blogs, and op - eds written by very sharp, intelligent and caring people who spend their days fighting for educational equity, school choice and better quality schools.

It does so despite the preponderance of evidence that, as the authors of one educational study from 2002 wrote, «school choice, on average, does not produce the equity and social justice that proponents spin.»

National School Choice Week is independent, nonpolitical, and nonpartisan, and embraces all types of educational choice — from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, online learning, private schools, and homeschoChoice Week is independent, nonpolitical, and nonpartisan, and embraces all types of educational choice — from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, online learning, private schools, and homeschochoice — from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, online learning, private schools, and homeschooling.

The week is also designed to empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children and supports a variety of school choice options — from encouraging increased access to great public schools, to public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.

«We believe parents should be trusted to make educational decisions for their own children and need a full menu of school choice options to choose from,» Hepworth wrote.

«One thing is clear from Education Next's poll released today: despite the wording of the questions, when looking across the board at the dominant forms of educational choice options like charter schools, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships, this poll finds more support for these programs than opposition.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

We have op - eds from AFC's Kevin P. Chavous and John Schilling, both discussing the need to expand educational choice in light of the recent Urban Institute study:

Students with special needs are not the only students who stand to benefit greatly from expanded educational choice.

As policymakers seek to expand educational choice in their states, they should learn from the experience of other states and be prepared for potential challenges.

Highly debated educational topics such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations, charter schools, school choice, and even teacher pay vary from state to state and typically aligns with the controlling political parties views on education.