Sentences with phrase «new educational choices»

She has been a leader in reform to make education more innovative and responsive, and supports teachers with ideas for gains in student achievement, and parents with new educational choices and options.

ESAs represent a new educational choice mechanism, establishing a government - authorized savings account, and the use of debit cards, which allow parents to receive and control a portion of their children's dedicated public education funding.

But at the very same time, Mabry's AEA filed a politically - driven lawsuit, alleging that Alabama's new educational choice program — which especially benefits low - income kids stuck in failing schools — is unconstitutional.

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The superintendent has fought vigorously against educational choice and is back in the papers with some new heroics that I will shortly report.

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The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

It is an adaptable educational and learning tool for raising awareness about watershed stewardship anywhere in the world; a tool for exploring and testing policy choices; and a tool for evaluating new products and services.

Equal opportunity in choosing a school A recent Wall Street Journal editorial had it right in criticizing civil rights groups like the NAACP for not jumping on the educational choice bandwagon since, as the Journal says, «reform's main beneficiaries are poor and minority students in places like Harlem and New Orleans.»

The use of interdistrict - choice programs is unlikely to increase most students» educational opportunities significantly, a new report concludes, despite recent attention to the idea as a means of reducing economic and racial segregation and giving students in low - performing public schools a chance to find a better school.

New Hampshire's scholarship tax credit law offers a third model of educational choice that is both privately managed and privately funded.

The most frustrating thing about Diane Ravitch's new book, Reign of Error, isn't the way she twists the evidence on school choice or testing, or her condescending tone toward leaders trying to improve educational outcomes, or her clever but disingenuous rhetorical arguments.

By enriching the Alimentarium Academy online educational platform with new resources for the younger population, the Alimentarium and Discovery Education are together making an important contribution to raising consciousness worldwide for more informed choices from an early age.»

Transportation is a significant roadblock to exercising educational choice, but a new technology promises to greatly expand the number of schools that are logistically feasible for students to attend.

Here is the (likely) final tally for new and expanded choice programs in 2015, as well as the private educational choice lawsuits decided this year or still pending:

As of my last update in late September, 15 states had adopted 21 new or expanded educational choice programs, including three education savings account laws, clearly making 2015 the «Year of Educational Choice.&choice programs, including three education savings account laws, clearly making 2015 the «Year of Educational Choice.&Choice.»

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

By the time the ball dropped in Times Square, 15 states had adopted 21 new or expanded educational choice policies, and courts rejected challenges to choice laws in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and North Carolina.

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choiNew Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choinew educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

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).

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choiNew Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choinew educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

For example CSDC's New Market Tax Credit program allowed Berkshire Arts and Technology to rehabilitate an industrial building in Adams, MA, to serve low - income rural students, many of whom have significant special educational needs, who otherwise had very limited educational choices.

Our goal, rather, is to unequivocally denounce the choice of words used in this case, and to emphasize that the charter movement in New York is about educational and social justice.

CSDC has a special focus on new schools, and helps charter school entrepreneurs and leaders finance, build, expand and replicate their school models, turning educational visions into reality, with the goal of ultimately improving student achievement by increasing school choice and catalyzing competition within the American K - 12 public education system.

On the opening day of the second special legislative session, the Louisiana Federation for Children (LFC), the state's voice for educational choice, has released a new television advertisement with parents asking Louisiana legislators to fully fund the Louisiana Scholarship Program.

AFC visits New Orleans to hear the city's school choice story and the impact educational choice programs have had on countless children and their families.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

New Hampshire provides an example of a privately funded and managed educational choice program.

Then, just to follow up with Lindsey just said, we saw this as an opportunity to break some new ground in terms of asking questions about educational choice issues and subjects.

All to say, this was important, because it is to our, as far as we know, one of the, if not the first survey to not only interview these families, survey these families about their educational experiences, but specifically ask this population about their opinions on school choice and some of the newer iterations of school choice, like education savings accounts.

Unfortunately, New York legislators ended the session without passing an educational choice bill, despite majority support in both chambers of the legislature and a promise by Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Timothy Cardinal Dolan that he would support STC legislation.

The new report clearly shows that traditional public education by ZIP Code is being rapidly replaced by a variety of choice programs that empower families to find the best educational option for students.

At events in Lafayette, Baton Rouge, Metairie and New Orleans parents and educators shared the positive impact of Louisiana's many educational choice options — including scholarship schools, -LSB-...]

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In a very short time, education choice enrollment in Mississippi has grown significantly; new programs have been added as parents have sought new educational options for their children.

Baton Rouge, LA (August 1, 2014)-- The Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, celebrates the results of two independent audits released by Louisiana Department of Education that shows all scholarship schools in the state are compliant with a new accounting law passed during this year's legislative session.

Across the country, educational choice is becoming the «new normal».

The Louisiana Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, congratulates Dr. RaeNell Houston, who was named Superintendent of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

North Carolina is one of the national leaders in a school movement that since the 1970s has promoted diversity and educational choices for families, according to a new study on magnet schools.

«During this election cycle, New Orleans voters overwhelmingly chose candidates who support educational choice,» said LFC president Ann Duplessis.

In his new role, Dauphin, a 30 - year public relations professional, will lead communications activity in the state of Louisiana for LFC, the state's voice for educational choice.

And since then, the two have not disappointed choice supporters, proposing massive increases in spending for school «choice,» including a new program that would use hundreds of millions of public dollars to pay for tuition and other educational expenses at private and religious schools.

Whether we are breaking down new research, summarizing legislation in the states, declaring our position on an issue, sharing a family story or responding to the false claims of a critic — the EdChoice blog has something for everyone in the educational choice movement.

Although not as ambitious as the New Hampshire Senate version, the New Hampshire House version would still make significant progress toward providing all Granite Staters with educational choice.

That would be a vast upgrade from New Hampshire's income - based tax - credit scholarship program, and the result would be a nearly universal educational choice program!

«This generous award from the Walton Family Foundation will give new choices and educational opportunities to scores of Indianapolis students and families across the city.»

To fight back, the Institute for Justice released a new report that rebuts the top myths about educational choice programs.

A new, large - scale federal initiative could constrain the prospects for widespread, long - term educational improvements, ultimately harming the good school - choice work being done in the states.

Although the history of folks exercising choice in schools had been long established, the «charter school» idea burst onto the scene in 1991 as a new avenue to realize educational options.

There's only one problem with this plan: the new legislature next year might not be as supportive of educational choice as the present one.