Sentences with phrase «into school choice groups»

Their board members include Dick DeVos, heir to the Amway fortune who has poured hundreds of thousands of dollars of seed money into school choice groups, and his wife Betsy DeVos, who actually runs AFC and is known for her conservative Christian right - wing ideology and for having poured millions into promoting voucher programs across the country.

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But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

My colleagues and I have shown that such differences exist in a study that followed a group of students into and out of public and private schools in Milwaukee (see «Special Choices,» features, Summer 2012).

Through culturally relevant narratives, choice, autonomy, and time for collaboration, one award - winning school is modeling a pathway into STEAM for underrepresented minority groups.

The news from the Education Next poll had become so bad we were accused of asking an unfriendly voucher question (it referenced the «use» of «government funds to pay the tuition»), so we agreed to split our respondents into two equivalent groups and ask the second group a «friendly» voucher question instead: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.»

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School uses a Montessori instructional approach to learning; students are grouped into mixed - age classrooms with substantial choice and independence in their learning activities.

The WCPSS school board will have to make several unpopular choices including putting more than 30 students in fourth and fifth grade, converting non-instructional spaces such as closets and offices into small - group classroom spaces, and adjusting student assignment plans.

School choice proponents, many from out of state, funneled $ 64,000 directly into candidates» coffers in 2014, through AFC and another group.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

As the Trump administration seeks to expand school choice nationwide, the academy was thrust into the national spotlight last month as part of a heated debate over whether schools that receive money from taxpayer - funded vouchers can discriminate against certain groups of students, such as LGBT children or students with disabilities.

In the first group presentation, where the students were primarily white, the counselor advised, «If you don't initially get into the college of your choice, consider attending a two - year school and then transferring into your original college of choice.»