Sentences with phrase «less school choice»

Contrary to popular belief, the United States has far less school choice than many other countries.

No less a school choice fan than Cato's Neal McCluskey wrote just yesterday that «the feds have no constitutional authority to promote school choice.

Not exact matches

His speech mixed anecdotes about his father's roots in the construction business with a call for less regulation and more school choice, plus a forceful attack on Hillary Clinton.

They are some of the most elemental bits of knowledge that any middle school student should know off the top of their head much less guess the answer on a multiple choice basis!

Less freedom of food choice in our public schools or places like NYC.

Whether it's providing more choices with less sugar in stores or removing full - calorie soft drinks from schools, we're always looking for different ways to support your efforts to make every day a balanced one.

Even if your school provides healthy options, it can be too easy to give in to temptation and pick a less healthy choice when you're feeling really hungry.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

Today, the Healthy School Food Brigade (PDF), comprised mostly of moms, marched the halls of Congress to, you guessed it, voice their support of healthy food choices in schools, from hot lunches to less junk - filled vending machines.

«Chocolate milk is the most popular milk choice in schools,» according to the campaign's pitch, «and kids will drink less milk and get fewer nutrients if it's taken away.»

The school also has a record number of students qualifying for free and reduced lunches, which is a sign that many families are struggling financially and likely opting for cheaper, less healthy choices, she said.

They are wanting to eat more salads and fruits and less fried foods — so right at the age where they are most open to making healthy choices, school isn't offering it to them.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio named Houston Superintendent Richard Carranza to lead city's schools less than a week after his first choice fell through.

Senior author Francine Laden, ScD, Professor in the Departments of Environmental Health and Epidemiology at Harvard Chan School, added, «We are currently working to determine if individuals who make healthier lifestyle choices are less susceptible to the adverse impacts of air pollution, and to determine if similar patterns of susceptibility are seen in men.»

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

While more consumers than ever are making healthier choices at the grocery store, they tend to purchase a balance of healthy and less - healthy foods, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of Management.

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

Research indicates that privately funded school - choice programs are less likely to be overregulated than publicly funded programs.

In general, high - risk male youth commit about 50 percent less crime as a result of winning the school - choice lottery.

Patrick Wolf explained that «private - school - choice programs disproportionately attract students from disadvantaged backgrounds,» noting that the choice participants are «considerably more likely to be low - income, lower - achieving, and African American, and much less likely to be white, as compared to the average public - school student in their area.»

High - risk middle - and high - school students who transfer to their preferred school are less likely to be arrested and spend less time incarcerated, pointing to impact of school choice

When school closures are embedded in a strategy to create better school choices for children, it feels like less of an attack.

Meanwhile, Jabbar's finding that most schools compete in less - than - impressive ways rings true, but that is largely a product of the incoherent incentives in K - 12 choice settings (see here for an extended discussion) rather than evidence that «competition doesn't work» — which seems to be the take of some observers and outlets.

Ohio's budget comes less than a week after the Wisconsin budget also included a significant expansion of school choice.

In general, high - risk students commit about 50 percent less crime as a result of winning a school choice lottery.

Students in schools that offered Healthy Choices were more likely to watch less television, be less sedentary, and more likely to play fewer video / computer games.

This report provides less guidance on the broader issue of the ideal level of government regulation in private school choice programs.

When choice is freely available and income no longer a constraint, private schools have disproportionate appeal to those who are less well off, and whose need for new opportunities is clearly much greater.

• Of all the influences on parental choice, by far the most powerful is school performance: The less satisfied parents are with the performance of the public schools, the more likely they are to go private.

Saul fails to mention this inconvenient fact, writing only that: «For school choice advocates, the genius of the program was that the money would never go into public accounts, making it less susceptible to court challenges.»

But it at least suggests that we may have less to fear from school choice than from the continual struggle to establish one educational «faith» through the vehicle of the common school.

Poor parents often have less information about school choice programs and school quality than do middle - class parents.

-- Budget Cuts Force Tough Choices School districts across the country are coping with the problems that arise when school funding provides less money than schoolsSchool districts across the country are coping with the problems that arise when school funding provides less money than schoolsschool funding provides less money than schools need.

Parents whose children have special needs are much less likely than parents of students in regular education to say their child is in a school that was their first or second choice (58 percent versus 74 percent).

Struggling to save money, school districts favor inexpensive — and less healthy — food choices for meals.

My advice to school choice advocates is to take Peter Greene's excellent if unintended advice and spend more time arguing for choice based on school culture and values, and less on test scores.

LGfL is working with schools to implement new solutions that provide choice, safety and reliability for those schools that are seeking to go server less and move to a new generation of «cloud native» applications that will help schools and children achieve more.

But the goal of most state private school choice programs is to draw children from less affluent families into good quality, tuition based private schools.

«The better the parochial school,» said Justice Stephen Breyer, «the less the freedom of choice....

After interviewing more than 50 of these gentrifiers about their school - choice process, I concluded that it is the substantive differences in parenting styles between the white, upper - middle - class parents and the nonwhite, less - affluent parents that are hindering school integration, as these parenting styles directly affect school culture and expectations.

Because much of the choice debate has focused on the question of whether vouchers for private schools should be allowed at all, less attention has...

The conservative House's opening bid, produced back in July, calls for trimming the education budget by $ 2.4 billion — less than four percent — while ignoring Trump's school - choice proposals beyond a modest bump (of $ 28 million) for charter schools.

But less affluent families» choices are too often limited to the schools in the high - poverty neighborhoods where they can afford to live.

Providing students with a choice of affordable nutritious foods and a cafeteria that allows them to socialise with their friends in a less restrictive way may encourage young people to stay within the school premises.»

By allowing kids to leave regular public schools for alternatives and by forcing unionized schools to compete with nonunion schools, choice ensures that the unions will lose members and resources - and thus become smaller and less politically powerful.

Taken as a whole, information about local school rankings has a less substantial impact on public thinking about teacher policy than it has on thinking about school choice policies.

Choice parents were also less likely to report the existence of a counselor, a nurse, a music program, an art program, or prepared lunches at their schools.

Seven of the eight previous studies using similar definitions of segregation found that, on average, students move from more segregated to less segregated schools as a result of school choice.

Holding back students seems like a poor choice, as does punishing schools that can educate students faster with less revenue.

Over recent years, the lure of the nearby fish and chip shops and supermarkets offering pre-packaged, on - the - go snacks have tempted teenagers off - site, and a vicious circle has been created where lack of customers has meant less money for schools and caterers, leading to less meal choice and drab dining areas in need of a spruce, leading to — yes, you guessed it — more children taking their money elsewhere.