Sentences with phrase «kinds of choice schools»

Potential access to different kinds of choice schools Intradistrict choice

Not exact matches

Those famous soft thick bakery sugar cookies with frosting (seem more like discs of cake though), the soft chewy ones you make at home to decorate for various holidays, or those not soft, sad, no flavor, gross kind of sugar cookies that kids would bring in on there birthdays in elementary school since their mom thought it was a «healthier» choice than cupcakes.

You can check out the salad bar, see what kinds of foods they are serving and — I think most elementary schools try to have volunteers there to help the kids make smarter choices and encourage the fruits and veggies; at least this is what my daughter's school told me - and you can see what the set - up is like.

This is one of the many reasons I am hoping to be able to return to school for my Family Nurse Practitioner degree — we at Believe are so excited for the day when we can offer the same level and kind of holistic, evidence - based, informed - choice type of care to the whole family, not just mamas and babies up to six weeks.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Mayim Bialik, best know for her roles as «Blossom» and «Amy» in the Big Bang Theory, who holds a PH.D if Neuroscience and is the recent author of «Beyond the Sling», mentioned that while in graduate school studying the hormones of human attachment as part of her thesis, she started seeing the results of these kinds of parenting choices.

Last night, though, we debated what kind of divided society we might become if this choice is exercised to create a diversity of schools centred on different faiths and ethnicities.

These new schools have been set up by idealistic people who are determined to give parents the kind of choice that only the rich can currently afford.The first 24 free schools are enormously popular and I expect this second wave to be equally successful.

A lace bralette is a good choice because it's comes in crazy cute colors, is slim in your suitcase, is made of super soft eyelash lace and, drum roll please, its padded so NBN — No bra Necessary... woo (get your minds out of the gutter, not in a gross girl - gone - wild kind of way, but more in a I - don't - have - to go - to - school - for - five - days - so - I - don't - want - to - wear - a-bra-but-also-need-to-look-awesome, sort of way).

It's an indie movie, so of course the character of Miss Stevens is something of an emotional mess prone to poor choices, and there's a cute, boundary - pushing high - school boy so you're kind of constantly waiting for the other shoe to drop, but Miss Stevens is smart enough to navigate some of that by - the - numbers terrain to end up in some unexpected (and rewarding) emotional moments.

We moved on to reliving the past by proxy, the worst kind of evil, the kind that thinks its doing the right thing, and an unconventional choice for a book report Taylor made in high school that is reflected, albeit briefly, in the film.

Thirteen states and many more school districts have adopted some kind of choice plan in the past five years.

That is true, but keep in mind that the schools have no choice about which kinds of staff they receive from the central office.

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

Sure, there are plenty of Republicans who loudly support empowering parents with school choice, but they are still boosted by a party which expresses vocal disdain for the kinds of government supports on which many of these urban voters depend to keep their families intact.

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.

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.

DeVos has a long history of supporting the kinds of accountability and school - choice policies that a broad swath of the education - reform community has championed over the last two decades.

In 2016, 65 % of people offering an opinion on tax credits say they favor them, making this mechanism the most popular kind of school choice (see Figure 4).

Our analysis focuses on new school options — traditional public, charter, and private — that families might gain access to under different kinds of choice policies.

Opponents of taxpayer support of private schools choice are likely to oppose tax subsidies of any kind of course.

He said he wants to spend $ 20 billion for some kind of federal program to promote school choice.

They require different skills from the intellectual ones posited by education reform, new apps of all kinds, the myriad proliferating school choices, and data - driven teaching.

School choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and WiscSchool choice advocates should be very wary of the kind of right - of - center technocratic tinkering that has crippled school choice programs in Louisiana and Wiscschool choice programs in Louisiana and Wisconsin.

That's why the Romney plan is apt to do some good in states (and districts) that want to extend more school choices to their students — the federal dime can join the 90 cents in state and local funds in the kids» backpacks — but won't make much difference in places that aren't willing to put their own resources into this kind of reform.

At a time when American education is striving to customize its offerings to students» interests and needs, and to afford families more choices among schools and education programs, the market is pointing to the skimpy supply of schools of this kind.

The public remains friendly to school choice, but the kinds of choices it prefers are changing.

We see all kinds of stories that are critical of a particular private school, of a choice made by parents, or which highlight first - year test - score snapshots in a private choice program.

Swick mentions a poll conducted for the Illinois State Education Board's Environmental Meisters and Mentors Program in which roughly 80 percent of environmentalscientists attribute their career choices to just these kinds of high school outings.

It can also be helped by policies that extend parental choice among schools, allowing a market to play a proper part in the process: Family interest represents an important kind of assessment.

That's fair up to a point; surely looking beyond just vouchers and charter schools makes sense in a world with many kinds of choice.

Half of the states now have a school - voucher or tax - credit program of some kind, according to the Friedman Foundation, a leading organization promoting private school choice.

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

Surely there are risks associated with drawing private schools into public accountability systems, but empirical evidence shows that downsides can be mitigated if policymakers are smart about how they design results - based accountability in choice programs of this kind.

But we believe in private school choice, too — indeed, we believe in every kind of school choice that works for kids — and have previously mapped the touchy territory of accountability for «voucher schools» and advised policy makers on how to deal with these challenging trade - offs and balancing acts.

The choices that policy - makers are now granting parents are not generating the kind of competition that is likely to shake up most school systems or to significantly increase the supply of good schools.

They surely don't want government at any level to get in the way of parents making choices about their children's education, but I doubt they want government to be creating many such choices, especially not the kinds that disrupt the schools they already have or that push other sorts of kids into their schools.

I like that DeVos hasn't spent her life in education bureaucracies, is an outspoken champion of all kinds of educational choice, strikes those who've driven Obama - era school reform as an «outsider,» and is a small government conservative.

Tom Luna, Idaho Supt. of Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice in public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.»

We could kind of use that as a parallel to what you were just saying about school choice.

This kind of research has the potential to add much needed nuance to the often ideologically tinged debates about school choice and the consequences for individuals, schools and the educational system.

The opportunity to be laboratories of educational innovation and think outside the box, coupled with our mission - driven aspect produced a different kind of school choice.»

We should continue to call for challenging academic standards in core subjects, allowing public charter schools as part of choice, encouraging high teacher performance — those kinds of things are part of the President's reform package.

... so there's not this choice aspect that just kind of requires certain placement in certain schools That's how you leverage policy to ensure you see more

Rather than fighting for an increase in minimum wage for all, as both the St. Paul and Minneapolis teachers unions have done, for example, Minnesota Comeback talks about «schools as the unit of change,» where the lucky will land — through the wonders of school choice — in the right kind of life - altering spot.

That kind of system — if it is truly against any form of expanded school choice options for every child, not just the affluent or the lucky — stands behind the disempowerment of that family and the academic suffering of that child.

And many parents in Springfield choose this kind of school when given a choice.

Schools should have a choice of exam board, so that they can assess their pupils and put them through a testing system that suits the kind of individual learner that they happen to be.

A similar kind of grassroots reform is taking root in Los Angeles Unified School District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School CSchool District, where pioneering teachers started designing their own school reform plans as part of a program called Public School Cschool reform plans as part of a program called Public School CSchool Choice.

Trump, according to his campaign materials, plans to immediately put $ 20 billion in grant funding toward school choice, and to give states the option of allowing money to follow students to whatever kind of school they choose to attend.