Sentences with phrase «of public school choice»

However, the governor has been a supporter of public school choice through charter schools.

Now, I've been a proponent of public school choice throughout my career.

Parents across the country are taking advantage of public school choice, but their experiences vary greatly from city to city.

The future of public school choice and urban education lies in pragmatic and committed partnerships and cooperation whenever they make sense.

Rather, voucher users are exercising private school choice, while control group members are exercising a small amount of private school choice and a substantial amount of public school choice.

The law thus established a nationwide test of public school choice as a means of both providing better opportunities for individual kids and creating pressure on schools that are performing poorly.

Would the proliferation of public school choices lead to increased achievement?

The widespread adoption of public school choice coupled with the existence of vibrant alternatives to traditional public schools enabled lawmakers to lay the groundwork for vouchers.

She is a member of a public school choice review team, academic planning committee, and is a problem support team coordinator.

Regardless of which policy improvements states and districts pursue, one thing is clear: Parents are taking advantage of public school choice, and they deserve quality choices.

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.

Although there are almost 300,000 families utilizing various types of public school choice in Los Angeles, and many public schools providing an excellent education, there are still roughly 160,0000 students attending persistently low - performing schools.

«Mayor Villaraigosa has been an outstanding force in the education reform efforts in Los Angeles, and a great support for our advocacy efforts this year with his support of the Public School Choice initiative, as well as our efforts on Proposition 39 facilities, so that all charters receive adequate space to teach our students,» said Jed Wallace, president and CEO of the CCSA.

DC and Milwaukee are both citywide programs, but DC is unique in its robust system of public school choice — roughly 35 percent of the control group in our study attended charter schools, for example.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

Caputo - Pearl is a member of PEAC, which strongly opposes the spread of charter schools and the use of public school choice to upend district schools.

As Robin Lake recently wrote: «Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.»

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.

The session saw bipartisan support for Louisiana's Scholarship Program as it was renewed and strengthened, creation of a public school choice program and more options made available for Louisiana parents.

The Center believes further research is needed to completely understand the impact of public school choices on students, and will publish a series of research papers that will further study the impact of school choice and quality public schools in Arizona.

Increased funding may very well be needed, but what recent coverage has missed is that the Mississippi School for Math the Science and similarly the Mississippi School of the Arts (MSA) are two of the most strikingly successful — and widely acclaimed — examples of public school choice success in Mississippi.

All told, nearly 300,000 of Los Angeles» 664,600 students are exercising some type of public school choice.

In 2010, Jefferson became part of more than two dozen schools that the school board put up for bid to be run by outside groups as part of the Public School Choice program, and the Jefferson bid went to a group of LA Unified teachers, parents and administrators who crafted the school's plan with help from UTLA leadership.

This makes availability of public school choices very important for many in the city, and less so for those living within the Wilson HS boundary (where there are no public charter schools, and where nearly half of students attend private school).

In August 2009, the LAUSD Board voted in favor of the Public School Choice Resolution to reform the operation of the new schools and some of the lowest performing schools in the district.

«Institutional Arrangements and the Creation of Social Capital: The Effects of Public School Choice.»

On November 14, the Brown Center at Brookings and CRPE will host two panels on the current state of public school choice in our nation's cities.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

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.

This Reagan - era proposal poses an opportunity to broaden notions of public school choice, but faces several challenges.

The findings, if unsurprising, are nonetheless sobering: the extent of public school choice has been negligible; participation in supplemental educational services, while rising, remains low; and the law's restructuring requirements for schools and districts are being deployed in their mildest forms.

In New York, decades of public school choice efforts followed by expansive charter school and accountability efforts under Mayor Bloomberg's tenure made the Big Apple's school system one of the nation's models for how to transform both schools and the communities they serve.

While these findings are potentially helpful in thinking about racial sorting implications of public school choice, they raise several questions that descriptive comparisons can not illuminate.

The impact of public school choice through the development of charter schools, on the sorting of students along racial, class and ability lines has been a fundamental issue in school choice research and policy debates.

It is shining a national spotlight on our work and will help CSDC to create and sustain jobs in those communities most in need of public school choice.»

Population density and educational inequality: the role of public school choice and accountability

From bricks and mortar charter schools to online learning options, the Savannah - Chatham school district offers a variety of public school choices.

Progressives should seize upon the rhetoric of Trump and DeVos — that poor kids trapped in failing schools deserve something better — to advocate on behalf of public school choice that intentionally promotes integrated schools.

Gov. Mead has been supportive of public school choice — through charter schools.

So there's lots of public school choice!

As the largest and original provider of public school choice, magnet schools have the power to turn around low - performing schools, and forever shape students» and educators» lives.

Charter school advocates worried that the change would halt the momentum of Public School Choice, a program where district schools and charter organizations compete to take over new and struggling campuses.