But few data points can paint a picture as well as parental satisfaction,
especially in schools of choice where parents must choose to enroll their child in that particular school.
Our mission is rooted in keeping families
intact in their school of choice — providing an instructional environment that unlocks the hidden potential of children with learning differences.
Once you get a better understanding of what a potential college student should look
like in your school of choice, put yourself in the shoes of a professor.
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.»
There appears to be no state provision that explicitly imposes limits on the class of persons» natural or artificial» who may ultimately cash educational grants that are provided to individuals for
redemption in schools of their choice.
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.
But a subset of Nannies comes from within the choice movement itself: advocates who espouse «parent power» but also have strong opinions about practices that should or shouldn't be
allowed in schools of choice.
More significant problems
arise in schools of choice when, for example, school leaders hide open seats from certain types of students or manipulate their lotteries or waitlists — problems that are especially likely when schools manage their own enrollment processes amid significant accountability pressure.
«After all,» he says, «parents make the choice to enroll their child
in school of choice often for reasons other than test scores.»
Another popular argument among critics of school choice is that there aren't enough
spaces in schools of choice to absorb all the students interested in leaving traditional public schools (notice how the critiques of school choice tend to cancel one another out).
Through this partnership, students with disabilities are having the opportunity to be
educated in their school of choice,» said Sharyn Howell, Executive Director, Division of Special Education for LAUSD.
She spearheaded the takeover of Washington's first multicampus charter management group, ensuring that hundreds of children could
remain in their school of choice.
Indeed, were it not for the quick and thoughtful action of Gov. Nathan Deal, House Speaker Pro Tem Jan Jones, Senate Majority Leader Chip Rogers, and State Superintendent John Barge, thousands of charter school students would not be able to
continue in their school of choice.
Charters offer choice, claim the corporate reformers, allowing parents to enroll their
kids in a school of their choice — and what parent would be so uncaring as to leave their kid to a «government school»?
And this new school year brings significant excitement for more than 1,000 new Connecticut charter school students just months after their families fought and won a battle for a
spot in these schools of choice.
Overnight, New Orleans, with nearly 70 percent of public school
students in schools of choice, had become one of the most chartered cities in America.
New York City and Boston offer a wide array of public school options to students, and both cities» student - assignment systems ensure that nearly every student is
placed in a school of their choice, according to a new report from the Education Sector, a Washington - based think tank.
More than 64,000 Idaho students are
enrolled in a school of choice (charter, private, home, curricular choice), according to theIdaho Charter School Network.
Of those families who were unable to place their
children in the schools of their choice, more than three - fifths cited as the main obstacle the financial constraint of having to bridge the gap between the $ 1,700 scholarship and the full tuition.
Test scores are strong predictors of a student's success in college and the labor market, and ensuring transparency about how students
in schools of choice are faring academically is essential.
It turns out, when parents are given the opportunity to choose the best school for their children, children
in both schools of choice and traditional public schools do better.
For many years, the five Grosse Pointes refused to participate
in Schools of Choice.
This language gives relief to this issue and makes it easier for parents to place their children
in their school of choice.
The individual microteaching assignment required students to plan and teach two consecutive lessons to a group of four to six students
in a school of their choice and formed the boundary for the case.
Parents now have the choice: keep waiting for change, like the fictional characters Vladimir and Estragon wait endlessly and in vain for the mythical Godot, or they can empower themselves and begin to vote with their feet and enroll their child
in a school of their choice.
Greene demonstrated that students
in schools of choice, which received only half the per - student funding of public school students, graduated at a 64 % rate, versus a much lower 41 % rate of a control group of more financially advantaged students in Milwaukee's most selective public schools.