Sentences with phrase «fund school choice initiatives»
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Initiatives in the US around School Choice offer a wealth of insights into ways we can support the transformation of educational funding.
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He appealed for additional funding for three programs and initiatives he said could accomplish that: Teacher's Choice, the Positive Learning Collaborative and Community Learning Schools.
Opposition to expanding school choice through a universal voucher initiative that «gives all students an opportunity to go to private schools with government funding» is higher in this year's survey than a year ago.
Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.
Lastly, there must be an assurance that funding for school choice initiatives results in an equitable distribution of resources across participating schools, with those schools serving students with the most intensive needs receiving resources proportionate to that challenge.
During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.
With U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at the helm of a federal initiative to spread private school choice even further, a new forum for Education Next brings together experts to assess the research on these programs — a tax - credit - funded scholarship in Florida and voucher programs in Indiana, Louisiana, and Ohio — and the implications for whether and how states should design and oversee statewide choice programs.
Most notably, the foundation funded the American Federation for Children, an advocacy group focused on supporting school - choice initiatives and supporting candidates who back school choice.
In fact, the Education Innovation and Research program, which the Trump team sought to use to fund the private school choice initiative, would be entirely eliminated in the House bill - right now, EIR gets $ 100 million.
«Choice» has become a popular mantra in education - reform circles, used primarily to describe initiatives to increase the number of charter schools, which are publicly funded but privately operated, and to increase funding for private schools through voucher systems.
During his campaign, President - elect Trump's primary K - 12 education policy priority was a new $ 20 billion initiative that would provide funds for school choice vouchers.
Many «school choice» proponents, who themselves write for the media, want you to believe that the Trump / DeVos / Alexander funding for school choice initiatives are going nowhere this year.
President Obama's education policy championed and provided massive amounts of funding for charter schools, and President Trump and Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are vocal supporters of these and other school choice initiatives.
Recently, the budget requests they laid out for federal funding of school choice initiatives were not endorsed by the House.
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.
The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter of playing out a role — you only have to say that you believe in «choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang of reformers at the State Department of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.
Legalization of the state takeover program was spearheaded two years ago by former state lawmaker Rob Bryan, who now sits on AAC's board of directors, and lobbying for the initiative was funded at least in part by John Bryan, the Oregon school choice booster (no relation to Rob Bryan) who founded the TeamCFA charter network.