Sentences with phrase «moved school choice»

As our new presidential administration has moved school choice into the spotlight, the debate surrounding access and success for charter - school students with disabilities has grown increasingly heated.

«Anyone who is trying to move school choice in states that have Blaine Amendments should feel the freedom to move forward in understanding that no longer just the simple fact that a school may be religious is a reason to deny a child a quality education,» Ms. Hiner said.

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With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at Schools is a public health campaign to increase salad bars in schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at schools across the country so that every child has the choice of healthy fruits and vegetables every day at school.

Then it's over and move on to your next choice school.

HINSDALE — Stymied by a Park District vote on its first choice, Hinsdale Elementary School District 181 is moving forward with plans to prepare a site for a new middle school on land it owns in Prospect Park in Clarendon School District 181 is moving forward with plans to prepare a site for a new middle school on land it owns in Prospect Park in Clarendon school on land it owns in Prospect Park in Clarendon Hills.

Most school lunches revolve around the traditional sandwich because it is easy to eat, but it is wise to move beyond this obvious choice at least some of the time.

If the call off the waitlist never comes, allow your student to grieve as he or she must, then move her on and get her ready to thrive at her second - choice school.

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

Nevertheless, Cuomo was successful this year in forming a new teacher evaluation system as well as making it harder for teachers to obtain tenure — a move that state lawmakers felt they had no choice but to accept given the policy's linkage to an increase in school aid.

«Bringing healthy lifestyle training — not just on drugs but the whole concept of healthy lifestyle choices — into our school curriculum is something we're working with BOCES on, and we see that as having a real benefit moving forward,» Horrigan said.

«This demonstrates that school choice, especially for lower - income families that can't move to Westchester or afford pricey private schools, is a powerful idea that's not going away,» said coalition spokesman Bob Bellafiore.

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Precise, too, are Davis» career choices since studying under acclaimed Montreal, Quebec — based acting teacher Jacqueline McClintock and then moving to New York City eight years ago to train at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

We moved on to reliving the past by proxy, the worst kind of evil, the kind that thinks its doing the right thing, and an unconventional choice for a book report Taylor made in high school that is reflected, albeit briefly, in the film.

ESAs constitute a critical refinement of Friedman's voucher idea, moving from school choice to educational choice.

One sensible move is to embrace full Title I portability, so that states can use federal funds to help low - income students attend the district, charter, or private school of their choice.

The result is the «intent - to - treat» effect of winning a lottery; it is an intent because students offered a place in their first - choice school did not always take it (for example, they may have moved out of the district).

Hess's second case study focuses on the five - year - old voucher plan in Cleveland, where he finds that the potential benefits of choice and competition were neutralized by multiple factors, including frequent changes in leadership, the state's move to take over the city's schools, the modest size of the vouchers (only $ 2,250), and the existence of strong unions.

He pushed school choice when a Democratic - controlled state legislature was moving away from it, and extolled the virtues of No Child Left Behind.

The differences ran so deep that the headmaster eventually left to start another school, leaving Lauenstein - Denjongpa with a choice: move to Sikkim full time and build the school he dreamed could be, or return to the comfort of New York.

In the case of private school choice, you're right that there's a mixed track record, though I would say mostly positive if you look at the full body of evidence about what happens when you allow a student to move from a public school to a private school using a voucher.

Through chartering, vouchers, tax credits, ESAs, online learning, course choice, dual enrollment, CTE programs, state - run schools, and much more, state governments have moved far past 1965 - era arrangements for K - 12.

For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the opportunity to switch to private schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better public schools (through public school choice).

Third, many control group children may already have been attending a school other than one in their neighborhood as a result of expanded school choice policies, which also meant that children in the experimental group could stay in their original schools after their families moved.

After moving dramatically to abolish property taxes as a source of funding for the schools, lawmakers last year decided to give voters a choice for replacing the lost revenues: either a two - cent sales - tax increase, to be considered in a March 15 referendum, or an income - tax hike, which will go into effect automatically if the sales - tax rise is rejected.

But they also appear sympathetic to the view that school choice can be a double - edged sword, allowing the children of well - educated parents to move to appropriate schools and leaving others in poorly performing schools.

Will he move on school choice, the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, Title I portability, charter schools, or something entirely unexpected?

Once again, while this increases the benefits of 529s at the bottom in a targeted manner, it comes with a hefty price - tag, and, unless the credits were quite large, is unlikely to move the needle on promoting school choice.

«Every reform has limitations,» wrote Winerip, perhaps tellingly, in that 1998 story for the Times magazine, «and the problem with school choice is what happens to schools that have nothing to sell, schools left behind after the most - motivated families have made their choices and moved on.»

The current government programme has been to provide choice for parents with more schools moving towards Academy status, the creation of Free Schools with a definitive education vision and creation of vocationally led schools like the University Technical Collegesschools moving towards Academy status, the creation of Free Schools with a definitive education vision and creation of vocationally led schools like the University Technical CollegesSchools with a definitive education vision and creation of vocationally led schools like the University Technical Collegesschools like the University Technical Colleges (UTC).

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.

As we move further into 2017 and beyond, it is clear to see that education around nutrition is set to grow steadily alongside a growing demand for lighter, healthier and lower - in - sugar snacks and vending machines in schools must ensure that their stock reflects this in order to provide greater choices.

That includes youngsters moving from one Riverside school to another as well as those transferring in or out, those on District of Choice transfers, and those on year - to - year approvals.

The district had been freed from mayoral control after more than a century, and a high - energy superintendent was leading bold moves to de-emphasize central administration, give schools greater autonomy, and engage families in a revitalized portfolio of educational choice.

I get angry when fellow reformers cavalierly propose to do away with Common Core for the sake of school choice or, more to the point, when they suggest that «pausing» the implementation of the standards or tests is necessary to keep them from disrupting the move to consequential teacher evaluations.

The bill to reauthorize NCLB moving through the House would change the way Title I funds are distributed, allowing the funds to follow low - income students to the schools of their choice.

Fifth, one little - noted benefit of properly implemented common standards is a better - functioning education marketplace, in which parents will be able to make choices about schools on the basis of more accurate information about how schools A's performance compares with that of school B — not just within communities and states but also when considering a move from state to state.

A local woman — who moved in 1989 to Raleigh with her young children from Lexington, Massachusetts — heads Assignment by Choice, an organization that attacks the pupil assignment policies that keep the Raleigh schools in socioeconomic (and racial) balance.

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.

«School choice advocates place great faith in the market model, assuming that parents will be good shoppers and will move their children into higher quality, more responsive schools,» said Bruce Fuller, codirector of the study.

Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd's When Schools Compete builds on this resemblance to draw lessons from New Zealand's experience that will help Americans mimic its successes and avoid its flaws if we quickly move toward a major expansion of charters and choice.

Prior research by William Howell and Paul Peterson suggested that the reason low - income inner - city African Americans benefit most from private - school choice is that moving to the new school represents a more dramatic improvement in the school environment for them than for less - disadvantaged white and Hispanic students.

Such a decline is likely larger for voucher students who move to a private school immediately after a choice program is created, because the schools also have to adjust — to an influx of new, disadvantaged students.

Debate over school choice will move from the policy arena to the courts following the passage of legislation last month that made Ohio and Wisconsin the first states to approve tuition vouchers for children who attend religious schools.

School may be out for the summer, but school choice is in, as states across the nation have moved to expand education opportunities for disadvantagedSchool may be out for the summer, but school choice is in, as states across the nation have moved to expand education opportunities for disadvantagedschool choice is in, as states across the nation have moved to expand education opportunities for disadvantaged kids.

ESAs represent a move from school choice to educational choice because families can use ESA funds to pay for a lot more than just private school tuition.

The granddaughter of educators, the African - American mom moved her family back to Washington from Los Angeles in part because of the robust climate of school choice.

At the midway point of this year's National School Choice Week — a celebration of effective educational options for all children — what strikes me is how much choice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the sSchool Choice Week — a celebration of effective educational options for all children — what strikes me is how much choice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the sChoice Week — a celebration of effective educational options for all children — what strikes me is how much choice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the schoice is on the move these days, but not just at the level of the schoolschool.

«School choice is already moving along swimmingly in the states... We don't want to over-convolute the tax code and there's concern that this could get overregulated.»