Sentences with phrase «high quality school choices»

Contrary to the rhetoric surrounding this bill, it won't provide parents with high quality school choices.

Our children deserve more high quality school choices, not more political posturing from union bosses.

Rather than being seen as a problem, charter school closures should be viewed as an indication of a healthy public school system committed to meeting parent demand for high quality school choice options, and providing the transparency and accountability that parents and the general public wish to see in place for all public schools.

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This seat is a fantastic choice for parents who want something that is a high - quality car seat for the years through preschool and early elementary school.

We have a higher price point, which allows us to offer a higher quality meal and a much wider variety of entree choices to our schools (yes, including hand - rolled sushi).

AAAS Science Assessment Website — Science educators have easy access to more than 700 high - quality multiple choice items for testing middle and high school students» understanding of 16 important topics in earth, life, and physical science and the nature of science.

This new session, linked to the Summer school of adult respiratory medicine, provides a unique opportunity to test your applied knowledge in adult respiratory medicine against 30 high - quality, case - based multiple - choice questions, selected from the question pool of the ERS HERMES European examination in adult respiratory medicine.

A more constructive approach is the road we've been traveling for 20 years now: expanding school choice via new, high - quality options.

Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing new public charter schools, or closing and transforming failing district schools to create new high - quality schools of choice.

Within K - 12 education, it seems to me that any study of school choice environments should include an analysis of civil society and the role it plays in enabling the delivery of high - quality public education.

«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

And we have to continue to expand parental choice and grow the number of high - quality charter schools — the kind getting twice, three times, four times, five times the number of low - income students to and through college.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

A productive response to that question would not contemplate the merits of «voucher programs» per se but would instead view vouchers as one vehicle among others for growing the number of high - quality individual school choices available to low - income families.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

Rebuilding strong neighborhood schools is certainly part of the solution to the problem, which is that Washington still has too few high - quality school choice options.

Identifying the kinds of private schools that boost these outcomes could enhance policymakers» ability to design private school choice programs that expand disadvantaged children's access to high - quality educational opportunities.

Another problem is the sheer lack of high - quality public school alternatives within reasonable driving distance of many a failing urban school; given the choice between the low - performing school in their own neighborhood and the mediocre school ten miles away, parents may stick to the path of least resistance.

[1] School choice literature has documented a similar dynamic, whereby parents often express a preference for schools of higher academic quality but often are unable to prioritize that consideration when selecting schools.

The goal of Louisiana's private school choice policy is to expand over time the number of high quality, free or low - cost schooling options available to low - income families.

Well - functioning school choice requires a federal role in gathering and disseminating high - quality data on school performance; ensures that civil rights laws are enforced; distributes funds based on enrollment of high - need students in particular schools; and supports a growing supply of school options through an expanded, equitably funded charter sector and through the unfettered growth of digital learning via application of the U.S. Constitution's commerce clause.

These findings further suggest that school choice has the potential to create a professional environment for teachers in which more motivated and skilled teachers earn higher pay for such qualities.

In her interview with Philanthropy Roundtable, she pointed to Florida as the great school - choice success story because of its «strong focus on offering high - quality options as a fundamental part of the choice program.»

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Even more controversial among teachers than Shanker's advocacy of high standards and public school choice was his embrace of a series of reforms intended to improve the quality of the teaching profession.

They should continue to support funding for the replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools, and they should make new investments in research and support for parent information, equitable funding and facilities, and innovative, low - regulation approaches to equity and effectiveness in schools of choice.

In the absence of a low - stakes check, I'm highly skeptical of whether choice schools suddenly improved in quality when they were required to administer the high - stakes tests that the study subjects had been taking all along with lower results.

«School choice advocates place great faith in the market model, assuming that parents will be good shoppers and will move their children into higher quality, more responsive schools,» said Bruce Fuller, codirector of the study.

But if you want to address the real - world scenario, one in which millions of underserved youth don't meet those descriptions and don't have a high - quality school available, it's time for school choice advocates to dispense with ideology, engage regulators, and get serious about a policy environment that promotes measurable quality, scale, and access.

«Great Ouse Primary Academy will provide much - needed high - quality places, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

The legislature's duty might be satisfied as long as students have a «genuine choice,» to borrow a phrase from Zelman, to attend at least one school that delivers a high - quality education.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

The rationale for granting school choice special treatment is simple: without access to quality schools, students have a higher chance of dropping out, dealing with family dysfunction, committing crimes or going to prison, failing to find employment, abusing drugs and alcohol, experiencing poor health, and having to cope with a variety of other social ills.

The growth of for - profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school choice movement, is rooted in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize public education, offering high quality at reduced cost.

The American Federation for Children offers high - quality and accountable model legislation for every kind of private school choice program.

Nevertheless, the near - consensus of high - quality research indicates that these choice programs improve student outcomes for both participating students and — through increased choice and competition — for students who remain in their assigned district schools.

Ravitch also falsely claims that there is «no new evidence to support» school choice despite a large and growing body of high - quality research that says otherwise.

School choice attempts to level the playing field between students of different backgrounds by making it possible for all families to have access to a city's high - quality public schools — whether students live near these schools or not.

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We believe that school choice policy should be considered a means of expanding the opportunity to attend a verifiably high - quality school for those historically less likely to be granted such an opportunity.

Both sought to achieve these objectives while preserving their commitment to other educational goals, e.g., districtwide commitment to high quality public schools, increased pupil assignment to neighborhood schools, diminished use of busing, greater student choice, reduced risk of white flight, and so forth.

Developing a comprehensive district choice program that includes expanding the number of high - quality seats through replication and expansion of high - quality charter schools.

Union City, Kirp argues, is successful because it fosters a culture of continuous improvement of existing staff and schools, utilizes bilingual instruction, and guarantees high quality pre-school — eschewing high stakes accountability, Teach for America teachers, and school choice.

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

Policies and practices (related to funding, accountability, facilities, transportation, and more) facilitate parental choice and the development of a portfolio of high - quality schools that meets the community's needs.

Other studies linking high school quality to college, including evaluations of a public school - choice program in Charlotte - Mecklenburg Schools in North Carolina and of Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy in New York City have found impacts that are either transitory or not statistically significant.

Washington can tell a district it must offer school choice regardless of capacity, but in the real world the absence of high - quality school options means that parents are still stuck.

The goal of Louisiana's private school choice policy is to expand the number of high quality, free or low - cost schooling options available to low - income families.