Sentences with phrase «limit access to good schools»

Voucher advocates — including Nobel Prize - winning economist Milton Friedman — have argued that income should not limit access to good schools, and schools would be more efficient if forced to compete.

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A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

Where is the district's trust in well - meaning, hardworking students when their Internet access is limited to the school home page and CNN?

This process is wrought with undertones of race and class, particularly as it could limit access to some of the district's best schools — most of which are located in the wealthy, majority - white neighborhoods of the Upper Northwest quadrant.

For future courses, they would also have to address access issues: Some schools block certain sites, and certain phones didn't do well with the multimedia platform Flash or didn't have a lot of memory, limiting the ability to share video.

«Nor can we limit accountability to a small percentage of our schools while ignoring the others, thereby retreating from the long - standing federal role in ensuring that minority students, low - income students, English learners and students with disabilities have access to... supports that address a range of student needs so that they are better prepared to succeed in the classroom.»

Focus is on a parent's ability to choose a public school best suited to meet their child's learning needs and how specific legislation, aimed at limiting or eliminating access to charter schools, negatively impacts parents, students and communities.

While it is good that principals have some choice, limiting their choices to this list limits their ability to find a good fit for their school and cuts off access to outside applicants who might be a better fit or more effective than the teachers on the must - place list.»

... We agree with the Sept. 21st letter to the NAACP from 170 black educators and leaders, which said that «a blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.»

«A blanket moratorium on charter schools would limit Black students» access to some of the best schools in America and deny Black parents the opportunity to make decisions about what's best for their children.

Well - intentioned as it may be, limiting the ability of schools to require additional counseling as a condition for accessing federal loan funds is detrimental on a broad scale — affecting student borrowers, schools and taxpayers alike.

These toxic stress - induced changes in brain structure and function mediate, at least in part, the well - described relationship between adversity and altered life - course trajectories (see Fig 1).4, 6 A hyper - responsive or chronically activated stress response contributes to the inflammation and changes in immune function that are seen in those chronic, noncommunicable diseases often associated with childhood adversity, like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cirrhosis, type II diabetes, depression, and cardiovascular disease.4, 6 Impairments in critical SE, language, and cognitive skills contribute to the fractured social networks often associated with childhood adversity, like school failure, poverty, divorce, homelessness, violence, and limited access to healthcare.4, 19,58 — 60 Finally, behavioral allostasis, or the adoption of potentially maladaptive behaviors to deal or cope with chronic stress, begins to explain the association between childhood adversity and unhealthy lifestyles, like alcohol, tobacco, and substance abuse, promiscuity, gambling, and obesity.4, 6,61 Taken together, these 3 general classes of altered developmental outcomes (unhealthy lifestyles, fractured social networks, and changes in immune function) contribute to the development of noncommunicable diseases and encompass many of the morbidities associated epidemiologically with childhood adversity.4, 6

Remoteness has obvious implications for school education, including limiting access to early childhood services, primary and secondary schools as well as other resources such as libraries and information technology.

«When access to housing is unfairly limited, it, in turn, limits access to good paying jobs, quality schools, and economic opportunity.»