As anyone who attended the 12/15/12 conference knows, there are a lot of educators who are interested in using WA's new public charter school law to create
new public school choices for the children and families of WA.
Although its application hasn't yet been finalized, the Success Academy has rolled out bus stop ads and a website that touts the school as a solution for parents looking for
new public school choices in the neighborhood.
Not exact matches
Parental
choice in general, and Catholic
schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of
New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the
public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.
The majority of
New Orleans children attend charter
schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for
choice than areas where
public schools are most popular.
Wisconsin's fall legislative session will get off to a slow start, with Republicans in control of both the Senate and Assembly still searching for consensus on major issues such as toughening drunken driving laws and imposing
new reporting requirements on
public and
choice schools.
Another independent expenditure (or IE) group,
New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of
school choice, charter
schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to
public, private and parochial
schools.
As city of Buffalo's eighth graders are trying to decide where they will go to high
school, the Buffalo Public School District will be show - casing five new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High S
school, the Buffalo
Public School District will be show - casing five new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High S
School District will be show - casing five
new choices Saturday morning in Bennett High
SchoolSchool.
A
new report by the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use public school choice to significantly improve New York's public education syst
new report by the Foundation for Education Reform and Accountability (FERA) argues that Governor Andrew Cuomo can use
public school choice to significantly improve
New York's public education syst
New York's
public education system.
So it is that we bring together in this issue the best of the
new evidence on how
choice may be affecting
public schools as well as a robust, informed conversation about its longer - term potential.
Much as weak signals from the outer realms of the universe are both hard to detect and even more difficult to interpret, so, too, preliminary findings about the ways in which
new forms of
school choice will shape the
public schools are hardly definitive.
His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to
public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the
New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding
school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.
Some organizations direct their activities only to district and / or charter
school issues, such as improving teacher quality and effectiveness, developing
new public charter
schools, or closing and transforming failing district
schools to create
new high - quality
schools of
choice.
This would include funding for a pilot private -
school voucher program,
new money for charter
schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to the
public school of their
choice.
It was the combination of a
new market environment and effective responses from the
public schools that simultaneously expanded
choices for poor families and improved both
choices and performance within the Milwaukee
public schools.
In 2017, the
New Mexico
Public Education Department responded to a legislative proposal to implement a charter
school moratorium by noting, «The families of
New Mexico continue to seek alternative, quality
choices for the education of their children.
But as that system is slowly replaced by one marked by an array of nongovernmental
school providers, parental
choice, and the «portfolio management» mindset,
new policies (undergirded by a
new understanding of the government's role in
public schooling) are needed.
The Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, along with the Aspen Institute's NCLB Commission and other proponents, have proposed tough
new measures to guarantee
public school choice to children who attend persistently low - performing
schools.
Your article on the Milwaukee
school -
choice evaluation («New Studies on Private Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice sc
choice evaluation («
New Studies on Private
Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice sc
Choice Contradict Each Other,» Sept. 4, 1996) accurately reports that our study of the Milwaukee
choice program found that choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice sc
choice program found that
choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice sc
choice students outperformed a comparable control group of Milwaukee
Public Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the choice s
Schools students on standardized tests by a considerable amount after three and four years of experience in the
choice sc
choice schoolsschools.
In Choosing
Schools, Mark Schneider, Paul Teske, and Melissa Marschall study the processes and effects of
public school choice using a quasi-experimental design in four
school districts in
New York City and
New Jersey.
The study is rooted in analyses of parental behavior in District 4 in Manhattan and in suburban Montclair,
New Jersey, with comparisons with neighboring districts that offer limited or no
public school choice.
The goal of these
school choice «patriots» was to free teachers to practice their craft in
new and innovative ways, including by opening their own
public or private
schools, and to empower parents with greater
choice and influence over their children's education.
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.
She argues, though, that
public schools have no
choice: They can champion
new tools and modern skills, or they can become irrelevant.
Our analysis focuses on
new school options — traditional
public, charter, and private — that families might gain access to under different kinds of
choice policies.
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.
As charter pioneer Ted Kolderie wrote, this horse trade would ``... introduce the dynamics of
choice, competition, and innovation into American's
public school system, while at the same time ensuring that
new schools serve broad
public purposes.»
«I can tell you this — if you gave the American people a
choice today between using federal dollars to renovate and build
new public schools or using
public tax dollars to pay for private
school vouchers, there would be no question how the American people would vote,» asserted U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley in a speech made when the report was released.
In this report, we use nationwide data on the locations of
public and private elementary
schools to calculate the percent of American families that could potentially gain access to
new school options under different national
school choice policies.
In this report, we begin to fill this gap by using nationwide data on the locations of
public and private elementary
schools to calculate the percent of American families that could potentially gain access to
new school options under different national
school choice policies.
Louisiana appears on track to enact a private -
school - voucher plan for
New Orleans that borrows from
choice programs elsewhere in several respects, from its focus on a single city and its means - testing of families to its targeting of students enrolled in low - performing
public schools.
Throughout the book, Osborne returns to a collection of principles called «the seven Cs» — including parental
choice, serious consequences for
school failure,
school - level control of operations, and the separation of rowing and steering — that define
new public education systems.
It was, according to the paper's summary, an «article on
school -
choice movement; competition from charter
schools, publicly - financed free schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.
schools, publicly - financed free
schools, is forcing other public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.
schools, is forcing other
public schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.
schools to sell selves aggressively and forcing parents to evaluate claims; competition for Jersey City, NJ, students between
public schools and new charter school planned by for - profit Advantage Schools Inc described.
schools and
new charter
school planned by for - profit Advantage
Schools Inc described.
Schools Inc described.»
Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein of Ed Week note that the plan calls for the creation of a
new $ 1 billion program that will allow students to take federal, state, and local education dollars to the
public school of their
choice.
Upon taking office in 1999, the governor pursued a multipronged strategy of education reform: an emphasis on reading, standards and accountability for
public schools, and
new choice options for students.
Using their
new authority, Bloomberg and Klein «dramatically» expanded the «availability of alternatives» to failing
public schools, increasing charters from 14
schools to 159 during Bloomberg's three terms, closing failing
schools, and making almost all of the city's high
schools «
schools of
choice» (see Figure 2).
Early on in the implementation of this
new law, many people at the local and state levels have said that
public school choice and supplemental services are sanctions.
As the controversy raged in the late 1990s, a group of philanthropists created the
New York
School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF), which offered three - year vouchers worth up to $ 1,400 annually to as many as 1,000 low - income families with children who were either entering 1st grade or were public school students about to enter grades two through
School Choice Scholarships Foundation (SCSF), which offered three - year vouchers worth up to $ 1,400 annually to as many as 1,000 low - income families with children who were either entering 1st grade or were
public school students about to enter grades two through
school students about to enter grades two through five.
After studying six years of data from Milwaukee, Warren concludes, in a
new study reported here, «Students in the Milwaukee
choice program are more likely to graduate from high
school than» students in the Milwaukee
Public Schools (MPS).
Kolderie was its author, and he summarized it this way: «The proposal outlined in this report is designed to introduce the dynamics of
choice, competition and innovation into America's
public school system, while at the same time ensuring that
new schools serve broad
public purposes.»
The evidence from a study of
New York's magnet
schools for secondary students «seems to indicate that it is possible to construct a
public high -
school choice system that eliminates some of the worst excesses of an unfettered
choice plan,» the study says.
Overnight,
New Orleans, with nearly 70 percent of
public school students in
schools of
choice, had become one of the most chartered cities in America.
There are proposals for
new approaches to
public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding
choice, ideas for accountability and
school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.
Though the excellent
new CRPE report «How Parents Experience
Public School Choice» focuses on how families navigate choice - based systems, the new role of government is front and c
Choice» focuses on how families navigate
choice - based systems, the new role of government is front and c
choice - based systems, the
new role of government is front and center.
It was not until 1979 that Coleman found an opportunity to subject his ideas about
school choice to a partial test, by comparing the performance of Catholic and public high schools in the U.S. Department of Education's new «High School and Beyond»
school choice to a partial test, by comparing the performance of Catholic and
public high
schools in the U.S. Department of Education's
new «High
School and Beyond»
School and Beyond» study.
Fifteen years ago, having judiciously reviewed the record and the criticisms of charter
schools (Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education), Finn and Manno were willing to render a judgment, arguing then that «schooling based on choice, autonomy, and accountability can undergird a new model of public education.
schools (Charter
Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education), Finn and Manno were willing to render a judgment, arguing then that «schooling based on choice, autonomy, and accountability can undergird a new model of public education.
Schools in Action: Renewing
Public Education), Finn and Manno were willing to render a judgment, arguing then that «schooling based on choice, autonomy, and accountability can undergird a new model of public education.&
Public Education), Finn and Manno were willing to render a judgment, arguing then that «
schooling based on
choice, autonomy, and accountability can undergird a
new model of
public education.&
public education.»
Donors Make Personal Links to
New Students Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.
New Students Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a
public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
school system, had two
choices for grad
school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
school: a top - ranked business
school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
school or the Ed
School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
School's
new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.
new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)
With about 400
public high
schools in
New York City, students have a bewildering array of
choices.
Within the foxholes of
New Jersey's charter
school wars, the target de jour is special education, specifically the accusation by
school -
choice opponents that alternative
public schools intentionally discriminate against children with special needs.
Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a
public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
school system, had two
choices for grad
school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
school: a top - ranked business
school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
school or the Ed
School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed
School's
new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)
Through efforts such as the «Newark Enrolls» universal enrollment system and the
New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, Newark
Public Schools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their s
Schools and most of the charter
schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their s
schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise
choice when it comes to selecting their
schoolsschools.