Worst - parents can't make
good educational choices for their children.
Fourth is a call to «empower» parents by providing them with more information to make
better educational choices for their children.
Today, the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, one of the participating groups along with the Keck and Walton Family Foundations, said the guiding force behind the effort was to satisfy parents of children in low - performing schools who desire more and
better educational choices.
Looking to make
the best educational choice for your child?
Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of
the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.
One of the main forces behind the shift of Sacramento High School into a charter school earlier this decade announced plans to open ten charter schools in Sacramento County in order to offer
better educational choices to students.
«One of the places that starts is in elementary school — a solid foundation for making
better educational choices going forward,» she explains.
Not exact matches
Instruments such as vouchers or tuition tax credits can strengthen the financially strapped parochial schools, and give poor parents the
educational choices now enjoyed by those who are financially
better off.
With your help, we also review
educational toys and books, and give recommendations to show you how to make the
best choices for your children.
The program includes over 20 videos, handouts,
educational materials, and action steps to help you make the
best choices for yourself and your baby.
Soft toys such as teddy bears or teething rings are a
good choice, but if you can combine that with something
educational, that's even
better.
These collaborations help to fund additional KidsHealth
educational programs that provide knowledge, advice, and comfort — and inspire families to make the
best choices possible.
Help us to give Parents some feedback for making
good choices when choosing the
best educational toys or games for their kids.
When questioned about our decision, we simply point out that any
educational choice has advantages and disadvantages and that we believe that home education is the
best choice for OUR family.
This bill will help further deploy the much needed
educational programs into our schools to teach kids to stay safe, make wise
choices online and be
better digital citizens.»
These
educational toys hold up
well through multiple children, making them a great
choice for families as
well as staples of preschool and kindergarten classrooms.
Forward - thinking candidates know that
educational and economic justice means expanding school
choice to all and not just families that can afford private - school tuition, tutors or suburban homes in the
best public school districts,» said NYIA spokesman Robert Bellafiore.
The materials included
educational components such as identifying types of violence, rights in relationships, and warning signs of dating violence, as
well as key skills components such as conflict resolution, communications skills, and taking responsibility for
choices and actions.
Emotional and
educational support is key so that you can make the
best choices for YOUR birth and feel prepared and empowered for your VBAC journey.
Crucially, these implementation challenges occurred under an administration that was vocally supportive of
educational choice and dedicated to providing
good customer service.
But the more I read, the more I realized that the empirical evidence for
choice and market forces improving
educational outcomes is thin at
best.
Facon Education Fair is the place for students and also adults to gather information for a
better choice of
educational needs.
Through their unique ability to be located both outside and inside buildings, OfficePOD's range of products offer unrivalled
choice for those who need to make
better use of their valuable
educational facilities, removing the need to consider a move or costly refurbishment.
With the school -
choice alternative, for example, parents wanting the
best education for their child often need financial means and knowledge of the
educational options to make an informed
choice of another school, resources not always available in low - income communities.
Of course, whether
educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as
well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school
choice already available to parents.
We can determine life
choices and
educational paths that will lead our students to lives that are
better, fuller, richer, greater, happier, more peaceful, enhanced, and funnier.
To this day there are no
good, comparable, city - by - city data on participation rates in NCLB school
choice or supplemental
educational services, so it's impossible to know if participation spiked in communities where the PIRCs and other groups targeted their efforts.
School
choice programs seek to address this inequity by providing low - income students with access to
educational options that
best meet their individual needs, giving them the
best chance to succeed in life.
Fortunately, if you are stuck or paralyzed by the number of
choices available, there has emerged a growing «industry» of
well - read teachers who share their reviews with the larger
educational community.
Keeping up with the Joneses, however, has never been a
good reason for
educational choices.
The use of interdistrict -
choice programs is unlikely to increase most students»
educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a
better school.
Choice programs that do not contain accountability provisions offer us zero assurances that
educational dollars are being
well spent.
The study, involving 8,000 families, looked at how school
choice was affected by parents» education, household income and their
educational aspirations for children, as
well as why some families later decided to switch schools.
Washington — Some of the leading proponents of «
choice» in education told a Senate panel last week that increased competition in the
educational marketplace would result in
better schools and more satisfied parents, students, and teachers.
The ultimate promise of
educational choice is that every child should have access to the education that
best meets his or her needs.
Even though Americans generally believe that consumer
choice is a
good thing, there are many important questions to be answered about establishing an
educational marketplace.
What has made the school
choice movement successful is not allowing peripheral issues — however important they are — to interfere with our work to help as many families and children as possible access more and
better educational options.
Or, given that Slate is precisely backward about nearly every aspect of the Swedish
educational experience, should we assume on the Swedish evidence alone that school
choice is
good?
Finally, charters and other public school
choice policies — strengthened in 35 states — continue to empower parents to seek out the
best educational opportunities for their children.
As
educational choice programs enlarge the demand for private schooling, the private schools that follow Smarick's advice will be
better positioned to grow to meet that demand.
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.
But for Washington, D.C., we believe two strong sectors — charter and traditional — offer the
best prospect that families will have many quality
educational choices for their children.
Here is the (likely) final tally for new and expanded
choice programs in 2015, as
well as the private
educational choice lawsuits decided this year or still pending:
Scholarship tax credits would expand
educational opportunities for Idaho families, building on long - standing state policies encouraging private investments in education, as
well as successful school
choice programs in other states.
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 proponents such as Jay would do
well to think hard about reasonable equity regulations that ensure that decentralized
choice markets offer
good educational opportunities to all students.
Yet, opponents of parent
choice and other transformational education reform initiatives continue to place one obstacle after another in the path of parents seeking the power to choose the
best educational environment for their children and / or to fundamentally change some of the systems that purport to educate their children.
Supporters say such programs would force schools to be competitive, fostering an environment that would create
educational innovation as
well as offer parents more
choices when it comes to their children's education.
2) Families that send their children to charter schools are making a
choice that
best fits what they seek in an
educational experience.
Other things equal, I believe giving parents more ability to exercise
educational choice is a
good thing, and I think this is true above and beyond other measures of performance or quality.