Sentences with phrase «increasing educational choices»

The solution for the problem with public schools involves increasing educational choices to create more competition.

Variety and a culture encouraging variety could facilitate innovation in programs and services; increase educational choices for students; lessen status competition; and aid the adaptation of schools to changing market and other external conditions.

Not exact matches

Chingos and Schwerdt first demonstrate the extent to which the increased choice created by FLVS has enabled students to access educational content that would not otherwise have been available to them.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

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.

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.

[School choice] would bring a healthy increase in the variety of educational institutions available and in competition among them.

Since all three choice sectors — private, charter, and district schools of choice — are offering parents educational options that are considerably more satisfying, one must expect the market demand for educational alternatives to increase.

Proponents contend that charter schools expand educational choices for students, increase innovation, improve student achievement, and promote healthy competition with traditional public schools.

Despite the increasing news coverage, however, polls show that most Americans are unfamiliar with educational choice programs.

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.

However, as states implement educational choice policies, the demand for information will increase and schools that refuse to share their data will be at a competitive disadvantage.

Across the country, school choice supporters have planned over 5,500 events to celebrate and advocate for increased educational options for students and families.

We help charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

The week is also designed to empower parents to choose the best educational environments for their children and supports a variety of school choice options — from encouraging increased access to great public schools, to public charter schools, magnet schools, virtual schools, private schools, homeschooling and more.

The report comes at an opportune time with the increasing focus in Washington, D.C. and state capitals on educational choice.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

CSDC helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

Increasing choice gives parents the ability to find an educational alternative that works best for their children.»

School choice is a proven educational approach that empowers parents, increases opportunities for children, and has led to success stories all over this country and across the world.

This would lower administrative costs for the state, could expand eligibility and would help increase parent understanding of educational choice, which would likely boost participation.

Good Morning The American Federation for Children urges the Trump Administration and Congress to act with urgency to take action on proposals in Congress that would expand educational choice including portability of federal K - 12 funds, expanding 529 plans and increasing funding for public charter schools.

The American Federation for Children urges the Trump Administration and Congress to act with urgency to take action on proposals in Congress that would expand educational choice including portability of federal K - 12 funds, expanding 529 plans and increasing funding for public charter schools.

When he accepted the job, he was part of a rising educational reform movement that drew lessons from the corporate world, like increasing parent choice through innovations like charter schools, weakening traditional union protections like tenure and bringing numbers - based accountability to schools to evaluate and rank them and to improve teaching.

And since then, the two have not disappointed choice supporters, proposing massive increases in spending for school «choice,» including a new program that would use hundreds of millions of public dollars to pay for tuition and other educational expenses at private and religious schools.

Besides standardizing data and defining requirements for graduation, Brodt and Bonsteel suggest giving parents more choices — vouchers, educational savings accounts, tax credit scholarships — to increase the probability of students buying into the educational process and working to gain the knowledge required to graduate.

Thankfully, research on which policies work in other states show us that educational choice programs supported by ALEC members have a record of success across different measures, from test score increases, to parental satisfaction, to better life outcomes for students.

«Both Lewis and Orange Jones are staunch advocates for parental choice and unwavering supporters of increasing access to high - quality educational options for low - income and working - class Black families in Louisiana,» the BAEO Action Fund Board of Directors wrote in a press release.

As the nation celebrates National School Choice Week, the potential to increase access to high - quality educational options, especially for low - income and working - class black families, has never been higher.

A comprehensive education and mobilization program that the California Charter Schools Association Advocates is providing to schools to increase civic engagement and empower charter parents to advocate for the educational choices that they want for their children.

Innovative program enables students to attend courses not traditionally offered by middle and high schools Baton Rouge, La. (Jan. 7, 2015)-- The Louisiana Federation for Children, a state affiliate of the American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, today welcomed the Louisiana Department of Education's announcement of an increase in the -LSB-...]

Many of his «reforms» had predictable disastrous effects, not least his absurd insistence that Windham High School must become two independent «academies» to serve the ideological purpose of offering «school choice,» even though the evidence is thin, to non-existent, that «choice» leads to increased educational equality.

Our experiences and surmises are remarkably similar: you think Dr. Bengtsson did what he did upon realizing he'd endangered his reputation and with it exposed himself to increased opposition from those who would now realize what he stands for; that he understood better how his free choice would impact his ability to gain the respectability of being published by respectable publishers; that he figured out the grant opportunities gained by open alliance with the tax - free «educational charity» that has a surprising amount of money for media campaigns and spectacle would not balance the grants he'd lose from people who consider association with a transparent tax fraud scheme a bad thing; and, ultimately that he had betrayed the trust of his valued colleagues by exposing them to such scandal.

For example, one study found that characteristics elicited from chatting, such as educational status and occupation, predicted «yes» decisions at small events (15 - 25 people), whereas «yes» decisions at larger events were predicted by height and weight.5 People at larger events are also more likely to form a consensus about which participants are most appealing, 6 supporting the idea that we dumb - down our decisions as choices increase.