We saw this as a really good opportunity and the timing was good to try to better understand these families and their needs and
how educational choice policies may be able to help them.
Not exact matches
I'm a doctoral candidate in
educational policy — but consider myself an
educational sociologist — and spend my days thinking about
how personal lives, opportunities, and
choices are often constrained by inequalities and cultural forces.
We'd have to see
how much leeway his appointees had or whether
educational policy might be handed off to VP Mike Pence (a passionate proponent of school
choice).
As a result, it is unclear
how different kinds of
choice policies might expand the
educational choices of children nationwide and in each state.
With this research, we sought to better understand what state legislators think about a number of education topics — including
educational choice policies — as well as
how they feel about the profession, sources of information they trust and
how often they consider different sources of influence when making legislative decisions.
In addition to showing that American parents favor
educational choice and are skeptical of Common Core, the new national survey on education
policy from the Friedman Foundation demonstrates that Americans still vastly underestimate
how much is spent per pupil at government - run schools.
To realize charter schools» promise of providing
educational choice to all, the ACLU SoCal and Public Advocates released Unequal Access:
How Some California Charter Schools Illegal Restrict Enrollment, a July 2016 report that sheds light on exclusionary enrollment
policies at 253 charter schools.