Sentences with phrase «much educational choice programs»

«We're able to calculate with specificity how much educational choice programs are saving, but we're not able to track where those savings wind up,» Enlow said.

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This bill will help further deploy the much needed educational programs into our schools to teach kids to stay safe, make wise choices online and be better digital citizens.»

Much of the debate has turned on whether or not school - choice programs yield improved educational outcomes and what happens to students who are left behind in schools struggling to cope after tax dollars have been diverted elsewhere.

As Jay P. Greene of the University of Arkansas has argued, even more than broad public support, choice policies need the support of concentrated constituencies along with that of the general public to counter-balance the opposition of concentrated constituencies that want to curb or eliminate educational choice programs: «As much as reformers may be motivated to promote equity, a basic lesson about political reality is that more advantaged people tend to have more political power.»

Louisiana's Course Choice program is limited to students attending a school rated «C» or lower on the state's accountability system and includes a much narrower array of educational services and products than ESAs.

Interestingly, their school choice programs come much closer to meeting Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman's ideal vision of true educational choice — the ability for all parents to choose the education that's best suited for their children regardless of income or residence — than most U.S. programs.