Sentences with phrase «more school choice in»

Some point to Sweden, and its plummeting international test scores, as a warning of what more school choice in the U.S. could bring without an accompanying rise in accountability.

Some conservatives want more school choice in the bill, yet most choice advocates themselves want to keep Uncle Sam at bay, understanding that he has a tendency to hug favored reforms to death.

The administration has yet to release a proposal for how the federal government might foster more school choice in states and localities around the country, although its initial budget proposal included additional funding for charters and other forms of public school choice, as well as funding for a new private school choice program.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

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.

«In their answers to almost all questions, parents are more enthusiastic about choice schools, usually by large margins.»

While pledging allegiance to the flag (with a more subdued physical salute) continues to this day to be routine in America's public schools, for the seventy years since Barnette it has been unlawful to compel any student to participate, and no student who elects not to participate is obliged to give any reason for that choice.

I have also remembered former students at Judson College, Alfred University, the University of Georgia, Wesleyan University in Middletown (in a gratifying interim), the hundreds of men in Yale College who elected Religion 21 a in the decade of the fifties and the more than a thousand men and women at Yale Divinity School who have had no choice.

Our view of the church experience was shaped by personal choice, as we went to Sunday school engaging in a variety of activities, while the adults experienced church service more as a spiritual discipline.

If there is anything that gets his goat more than parental choice, it is choice that can be exercised in religious schools.

The latest results, like others in recent years, show an apparent contradiction between strong support for more parent choice among schools, and....

There's nothing more Australian than a Four N» Twenty pie; it's the food staple of choice at the Ashes, the NRL Grand Final, on road trips and at the school canteen, and it's been a vital part of Our Culcha longer than Menzies was in the Lodge.

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.

«Meatless Monday is one more way in which we are using school meals as a teachable moment to educate students on the importance of making healthy choices.»

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.

Because of our work, 18,000 American schools are providing kids with healthy food choices in an effort to eradicate childhood obesity; 21,000 African farmers have improved their crops to feed 30,000 people; 248 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions are being reduced in cities worldwide; more than 5,000 people have been trained in marketable job skills in Colombia; more than 5 million people have benefited from lifesaving HIV / AIDS medications; and members of the Clinton Global Initiative have made nearly 2,300 Commitments to Action to improve more than 400 million lives around the world.

The industry has taken significant measures to provide consumers with more options and information to allow informed dietary choices through developing reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, voluntarily displaying kilojoule information on the front of labels and restricting sales of regular kilojoule soft drinks in schools.

The tiny Presbyterian school, highly rated academically for more than 125 years, was unbeaten in 12 league games and was the obvious choice to represent the conference against Providence in Philadelphia on March 8, the first step toward a possible NCAA championship.

Because unlike traditional schools, summer gives us the freedom to reinvent learning in a way that allows kids to make their own choices — and, of course, a few mistakes along the way.Info: 415 -389-KIDS (5437); [email protected]... Read More

You might start choosing healthy options as your first choice You start the day on such a good foot that the fruit salad or salad bar in the business school café might start to seem more appealing.

And even though I'd like to think I'd make a different choice in the situation when my kids are high school age, now that I do have children of my own I'm a lot more sympathetic to my dad.

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And as I sat through this district's presentation, school food professionals in the audience were eagerly asking for more details about all of it: the cost of the coffee cups, whether the lid and cardboard sleeve were included in the price, which extra-brightly-colored Trix were used in the treats shown above (apparently Trix Swirls is the more eye - catching choice).

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.

if school administrators weren't too busy to plan and would approve parent volunteer lunch monitors then parents could fill some of the lunch room void by left by over-extended cafeteria staff and teachers, explaining to kids what lunch options were and encouraging the healthier choices as well as providing more prompts in the cafeteria as students have their tray.

By the time the students got to middle school, they were more positive about eating in the cafeteria, seemed to have a preference for produce in season and were conscious that their eating choices could help or hurt the environment, according to the report.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

An interesting — and encouraging — new British study finds that economically disadvantaged kids are making better choices in the school cafeteria compared to their more affluent peers.

His investigation continues, and he expects more claims to be brought against other food service providers over rebates that not only create «an inherent conflict of interest» in the choice of foods children are served at school, but also discourage the use of locally produced goods from smaller suppliers, including local farmers.

On the one hand, you have administrators and parents supporting the inclusion of milk in school cafeterias, «amid concerns that dairy consumption is waning among older children who have more beverage choices, from flavored water to energy drinks.

I would have loved more than anything to have had more than one lunch line at my school, but it wasn't till I got to High School where we got a choice between regular lunch and a salad bar (which in my Jr. year added soup to it school, but it wasn't till I got to High School where we got a choice between regular lunch and a salad bar (which in my Jr. year added soup to it School where we got a choice between regular lunch and a salad bar (which in my Jr. year added soup to it also).

In France, there is more emphasis on taste, freshness and variety on the school lunch menus, but on the other side, there is no choice on what the children can eat (they are served the basic 3 course lunch).

is about putting children on the path to a healthy future during their earliest months and years; giving parents helpful information and fostering environments that support healthy choices; providing healthier foods in our schools; ensuring that every family has access to healthy, affordable food; and helping children become more physically active.

Harry clearly has far more choices with you involving him in his education and giving him some say in the matter than those who school who have no control at all!

About 80 % of schools with more than one class in a year group give parents of twins a choice of whether to separate their twins or keep them together.

If you are looking at more than two choices, like a private school, or a school that specializes in sports or fine arts, do a separate pro and con list for each choice you are considering.

The survey found that since 2014, when the majority of updated nutrition standards for school meals were in effect, more school meal programs have launched initiatives to market healthier school food choices and increase their appeal among students.

The kids tell me the food sucks now lol but they do nt see the bigger picture either... while it was a different era for us when us parents were in school; the fundamental rights shouldve remained the same... which is give the kids their choices... the Federal Gov can INCLUDE nutritious items on the free lunch menus while including more choices for them instead of reducing them to avoid social stigmas within the student body of the schools... Kids can be so cruel... Ive lived that first hand... I'm wondering who to contact to protest these changes.

When our children are accustomed to enjoying fresh, balanced meals at home, they may be more likely to choose healthy choices in the school cafeteria.

That might mean a slower menu roll - out than LAUSD attempted; it might mean more menu - testing and student input; it might mean using Brian Wansink's consumer psychology to encourage better choices; and it most certainly means nutrition education at every possible juncture, from classroom lessons to school gardens to volunteer «food boosters» in the lunch room encouraging experimentation.

Commitments outlined in Standing up for families include more choice over nursery education, help for families to access childcare and support for school buses.

In October, for example, after more than 80 % of the parents voted to have their kids not take the exams, Castle Bridge Elementary School canceled the new standardized multiple - choice tests.

We heard today from parents in public housing, in middle school deserts, from parents who are upset about the ATR pool and those who want more school choices.

«Today's announcement shows that we will not waver in pressing ahead with our plans to open 500 more of these innovative and exciting schools over the next five years, creating 270,000 places, delivering an excellent education and giving parents across the country real choice for their children.»

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

The deal they secured in the New York Budget reduces student testing, puts the best teachers in our classrooms while removing ineffective ones, and gives schools more resources and families more choices.

Rodriguez was re-elected to the council in November, winning more than 90 percent of the vote against Republican Ronnie Cabrera and School's Choice Candidate Miguel Estrella.

We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

But much major legislation failed to get through in time, including Shirley Williams» education bill, which would have extended parental choice, made school governors more representative and introduce maintenance grants for 16 - to - 18 year - olds.