Sentences with phrase «nation for school choice»

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Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

High school recruits across the country will sign with their colleges of choice on Wednesday, National Signing Day, but the nation's No. 1 recruit is already spoken for.

In all schools nation wide, milk is served as a beverage choice for reimbursable meals as well as for purchase a la carte.

New York's first - in - the - nation free college tuition plan was enacted just weeks before the May 1 deadline for most students to decide where they will matriculate, a choice that for many families involves weighing one school's financial aid package against another's.

I'd love for Florida to be the first state in the nation where every parent has a choice in truly customizing his or her child's education at the teacher, school or district level.

The Florida Supreme Court heard oral arguments June 7 in a case that could determine the future of school vouchers in the state and set the pace for school choice policies across the nation.

As a long - time student of school choice (and, full disclosure, an adviser to Romney's education team) I anticipate the governor is in for a bit of moral outrage — for undermining, threatening, jeopardizing, disrespecting — or, insert verb of offense here — our nation's public schools.

Equally important is well - informed choice, a powerful principle in our economy and in higher education, but one that is severely constrained in K - 12 public education, particularly for low - income populations that are most likely to be assigned to low - performing schools under the nation's residence - based school system.

We see only slight changes in people's views on the quality of the nation's schools, for instance, or on federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, or the effects of teachers unions.

March 30, 2018 — As presidential candidate, Donald Trump declared the Common Core a «total disaster» while promising to be the «nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice.»

John Schilling is the president of the AFC, one of the nation's most influential organizations advocating for school choice.

The nation's first modern private school choice program — in Milwaukee — has been around for more than 25 years.

Research shows that private - school choice through vouchers or scholarships is one of our nation's most effective dropout - prevention programs for African Americans.

Overall, public support for school choice increases when the public is informed of the local district's ranking in the state or nation.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

, Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them and Reach Them; Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations; The Principal Challenge; and Tough Choices or Tough Times.

As Whitehurst goes on to state, the expansion of public school choice «is not a repudiation and abandonment of the role of government in the provision of an adequate education for the nation's K - 12 students.

As we consider the merits of private - school choice and what it would take to make it succeed, this initiative deserves particular attention: it is the nation's largest voucher program, accounting for nearly 20 percent of all voucher students nationwide, with 34,299 students receiving vouchers and 313 private schools participating during the 2016 — 17 academic year.

When it comes to school choice and vouchers at AASA, we are deeply committed to supporting and strengthening the nation's public schools and have an absolute belief that public dollars are for public schools and equally strong opposition to vouchers.

On Thursday, February 6, the Institute for Justice, the nation's leading legal advocate for school choice, will ask a judge to rule on behalf of parents who are using the Alabama Accountability Act to get their children into safe and effective schools of their choice.

WASHINGTON — Parents overwhelmingly believe that public schools are the single most important institution for the future of their community and of our nation, and they choose strong neighborhood public schools over expanding choice, charters and vouchers, according to a nationwide poll released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

As the debate on school choice heats up next week, I share this post as a voice in support of the nation's public schools, which remain the number 1 choice, a great option for families and communities across the country.

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.

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

«As your president, I will be the nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice,» he said, vowing to use the presidential bully pulpit and campaign in all 50 states for the proposal.

For instance despite the constant refrain from choice opponents that private schools would cream and that public schools take «everyone» (i.e. everyone who can afford to live in their attendance boundary) the McKay Scholarship program has been statewide in FL since 2001, was still the nation's largest voucher program last time I checked, and only served special needs children.

Earlier this year, Dropout Nation argued that one way that school reformers — including school choice activists and Parent Power groups — could advance reform and expand school choice was to file lawsuits similar to school funding torts used for the past four decades by school funding advocates.

The nation's capital became the epicenter for the private school choice battle in 2004 when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship Prschool choice battle in 2004 when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship Prchoice battle in 2004 when President George W. Bush signed the District of Columbia School Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship PrSchool Choice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship PrChoice Incentive Act, which created the Opportunity Scholarship Program.

But none of them hold as much promise for student learning as any one of the many school reforms on the nation's agenda — student and school accountability, school choice, and changes in teacher recruitment, compensation and retention policies.

In contrast, Heckman and Carneiro advocate reallocating resources toward the youngest students (especially preschoolers), expanding mentoring programs for disadvantaged adolescents, and raising the quality of the nation's public schools, not by augmenting their resources, but by enhancing parental choice.

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, issued the following statement in response to the NAACP ratifying an anti-public charter school proposal.

CHAMPION AND FEARLESS ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF SCHOOL CHOICE The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday morniFOR CHILDREN IN NEED OF SCHOOL CHOICE The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday moCHOICE The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday mornifor Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday mornifor educational choice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday mochoice, celebrates the life and legacy of the former Governor George Voinovich, who passed away early Sunday morning.

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice and its state affiliate, the Louisiana Federation for Children, celebrated a decision from the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in ruling against the U.S. Department of Justice's attempt to regulate and undermine the state's private school choice program, the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

New York is home to some of the nation's best charter schools and parent demand for these public schools of choice remains high.

A recent analysis by The Century Foundation demonstrated that voucher programs tend to benefit the most advantaged students eligible for the programs.61 Widespread enactment of private school choice in other nations such as Sweden and Chile has led to increasingly economically segregated schools.62

The American Federation for Children, the nation's voice for educational choice, and the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd), a national leader in reforming education, encourage both the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to embrace school choice in their official party platforms.

The event included a compelling keynote address from Dr. Howard Fuller, one of the nation's leading advocates for school choice to serve the most disadvantaged children in America.

The American Federation for Children (AFC), the nation's voice for educational choice, urges the Trump Administration and Congress to act with urgency to facilitate educational opportunity for millions of K - 12 students who are trapped in schools that are not meeting their needs.

The Constitution State is literally the only state in the nation that funds its charter students like this, and they have 10 other formulas for how other schools of choice get funded.

In 2012, the state legislature approved by the Dyslexia Scholarship, Mississippi's first private school choice program and the nation's first school choice program designed exclusively for students with dyslexia.

The International Success Of School Choice March 7, 2016 Across the nation, charter schools are providing much needed and innovative opportunities for children.

Certainly one could have expected some response to Thomas B. Fordham Institute research czar Mike Petrilli's compelling and intelligent argument for expanding charter schools and other forms of school choice in suburban districts (an argument made ad nauseam by Dropout Nation and its editors since its revival three years ago).

School Choice Programs: Slow, But Steady Growth February 4, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The nation's oldest school choice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrSchool Choice Programs: Slow, But Steady Growth February 4, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The nation's oldest school choice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrChoice Programs: Slow, But Steady Growth February 4, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The nation's oldest school choice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrschool choice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrchoice program designed exclusively for students with special needs began its first year with just two students enrolled.

The other problem with 529s for school choice: Yesterday, Dropout Nation explained why the plan by Congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration to transform 529 higher education savings vehicles to expand school choice does little for poor and minority communities who lack the incomes and wealth to use them.

Even as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 - school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape of governance within the legacy city school system was changing rapidly to favor parental choice and more autonomous schools.

Like the nation's oldest school choice program in Vermont, students qualify only if their home district does not have a public school for that student's grade level.

Ohio's Autism Scholarship Program, the nation's only private school choice program designed only for students with autism, was enacted in 2003 and launched in 2004.

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Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.