Sentences with phrase «lack quality school options»

Moreover, the whole idea behind the school choice movement is that low - income parents lack quality school options.

This philosophy guides her work as the Superintendent of the Great Oaks Foundation, a charter management organization that launches schools in communities that lack quality school options.

Not exact matches

«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

Parents face significant barriers to choosing schools, including inadequate information, transportation, and lack of quality options.

Lack of official centralized information system inclusive of comparable information on all public school quality and options available to families

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

Sadly, the neighborhood school near our Grand Rapids home lacked the record of academic achievement that instills confidence, and we faced the all - too - common reality of an urban district with too few high quality options.

In 2015, GO supported family leaders from West and North Oakland to create United Families Building Community to organize and outreach to other families impacted by the lack of quality school options in their neighborhoods and to more deeply influence OUSD's process for transforming schools.