Sentences with phrase «limited public school choice»

The state provides families with limited public school choice.

Hickok: If an existing desegregation order limits public school choice, then the district has the obligation to go back to the office that issued the order to change it, so the district can offer public school choice.

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While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

Many children and parents struggle to make healthy food choices, particularly given that offices, schools, and other public settings may provide limited access to nutritious foods and snacks.

The omission did not go unnoticed among private - school leaders, already annoyed that the Administration has limited its advocacy of parental choice to public schools.

The study is rooted in analyses of parental behavior in District 4 in Manhattan and in suburban Montclair, New Jersey, with comparisons with neighboring districts that offer limited or no public school choice.

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I think we tend to be a little limited in our thinking because we are not used to thinking this way about public school choice.

Despite the numbers, the school choice programs are not large enough to have had more than a limited statewide impact on the millions of students attending Florida's public schools.

His most recent article, «Preferencing Choice: The Constitutional Limits,» is highly critical of state policies that continue to promote school choice at the expense of public schools and vChoice: The Constitutional Limits,» is highly critical of state policies that continue to promote school choice at the expense of public schools and vchoice at the expense of public schools and values.

Moreover, 12 percent of the 446,000 participants in private - school - choice programs in 2016 — 17 were in initiatives limited to students with disabilities, which is slightly higher than the 11 percent average rate of student disability in public schools nationally.

DeVos is a «strong supporter of school choice» with «limited experience with public education,» as NPR's Eric Westervelt has reported:

The overarching goal of our framework for K - 12 science education is to ensure that by the end of 12th grade, all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science; possess sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on related issues; are careful consumers of scientific and technological information related to their everyday lives; are able to continue to learn about science outside school; and have the skills to enter careers of their choice, including (but not limited to) careers in science, engineering, and technology.

Some, like the teachers unions, contend that choice programs exist in isolation from mainstream public school reforms and point to limited participation rates.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes BPublic Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Bpublic student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

When school choice programs are created, regulations are too often imposed that mimic the existing public education system, limiting diversity of school and provider supply (consider state testing mandates, teacher certification requirements, and so on).

Consequently, it is hard to assess how today's public schools compare with their predecessors (with their stratified, segregated, often exclusionary educational structures), with contemporary Catholic schools (that sometimes abandon problem students), or with experiments in school choice and vouchers (all still relatively new and limited).

Parents have made it crystal clear to lawmakers that they want educational choice and they don't want it limited to public school choice.

The overarching goal of the Framework for K - 12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas (National Research Council, 2012, Summary, para. 2) is to «ensure that by the end of 12th grade all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder of science; possess sufficient knowledge of science and engineering to engage in public discussions on related issues; are careful consumers of scientific and technological information related to their everyday lives; are able to continue to learn about science outside school; and have the skills to enter careers of their choice, including (but not limited to) careers in science, engineering, and technology (p. 1).»

That's a robust blend of private and public school choice, across the board, for all students, with limited regulations.

In the event that the complaint pertains to services received through Title I, such as but not limited to homeless students, private schools, public school choice or Supplemental Education Services, the complainant will be referred to Michael Puntschenko, Director of Special Programs at [phone].

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

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.

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But Trump forgot the tiny detail that schools often do the choosing — even among public schools — which obviously limits families» choices.

Rather than bowing to special interests that seek to roll back or limit access to educational choice, Arizona policymakers should support policies that create more quality public school options.

We are very disappointed that the same Legislature that approved the second charter schools law in the country almost 20 years ago now wants to create obstacles to limit the growth of charter schools, as well as the choice for parents and students looking for better public education options.»

Taxpayer - funded vouchers have helped thousands of families escape failing public schools, but their structure limits their ability to create the kind of education market system that Milton Friedman advocated at the birth of the school - choice movement.

As schools of choice, charters, like magnet schools, could be accessible to students from across a geographic area, rather than limiting enrollment based on what neighborhood a child's family could afford to live in, the way many traditional public schools do.

Lunedar Girault, a Newark public charter school parent, said: «I challenge opponents of public charter schools to come to my city and see firsthand how limiting my choices as a parent impacts my children.

Defenders of the public - school monopoly have had limited success in their lawfare against school choice, despite a few painful decisions.

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) board voted 2 - 4 to reject a resolution proposed by Board Member Steve Zimmer seeking to limit parent choice by curtailing the growth of charter public schools.

For families exercising public school choice — including charters and district - run magnet schools (which limit options through race - and socioeconomic quotas)-- the reality that public school data remains a black box geared more toward compliance than toward providing useful information limits their ability to truly pick schools fit for their kids.

When charter schools fail to accommodate students with special needs, they limit the opportunities of students with disabilities and, at the same time, exacerbate fiscal inequities among different public schools incorporated in the choice system.

«The 51 - to - 50 vote elevates Ms. DeVos — a wealthy donor from Michigan who has devoted much of her life to expanding educational choice through charter schools and vouchers, but has limited experience with the public school system — to be steward of the nation's schools.

Examination of the treatment of students with disabilities by particular charter schools and charter networks thus exemplifies the limits of the school choice system, which is not equally accessible for all children in the American public school system.