Sentences with phrase «of school choice issues»

Paul «Skip» Stam, a powerful Apex Republican and key supporter of school choice issues, sent a similar letter this week.

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The choice among these various schools of commentary on the Qur» an and Sunnah depends on one's attitude with respect to three basic issues: the credence to be attached to historical tradition; the weight to be given to the claim for a hidden meaning in the Qur» an; the amount of subjectivity to be allowed in interpretation.

I think it is important to point out that this isn't just an issue for middle class families who care deeply about their child's diet and are able to provide abundant healthy food choices but school menus have great impact on many, many poor children who, through no fault of their own and often with no agency to change the situation, end up being pawns in the lunch tray wars.

In short, we are mothers of color with a lot to say about issues relevant to us including politics, images in the media, schooling choices, parenting issues, and so much more.

One big reason schools have few healthy choices such as whole - grain bread and fresh fruit and vegetables is that they cost more, said Benjamin Senauer, a professor of applied economics at the University of Minnesota who studies nutrition issues.

This week, at a televised debate between the 2013 Democratic mayoral candidates, the issue of parental school choices came up again.

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.

Unlike Lieberman, he just doesn't want to be invited to Dinner parties with GWB so badly that he's willing to sell out the core values of the Democratic party on issues ranging from SS privatization, school vouchers, prayer in school, end of life decisions (terry schiavo), choice (supported hospitals right not to provide birth control), and, yes, Iraq.

For two years, Eva S. Moskowitz positioned herself as one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's most persistent foils: With a powerful signature issue — school choice — and a fearsome network of political supporters, Ms. Moskowitz was widely perceived as one of Mr. de Blasio's most dangerous potential obstacles to re-election.

The study, published in the September issue of Annals of Surgery online, shows that providing pricing information upfront can influence patient choice of surgical procedures and potentially lead to cost savings in health care, a sector of the economy that accounts for more than 17 percent of the U.S. Gross Domestic Product, says Eric R. Scaife, M.D., senior author, associate professor of surgery and chief of pediatric surgery at the University of Utah (U of U) School of Medicine.

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.

In the following debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement around this issue of school choice and school quality.

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.»

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.

School choice is also an important social endeavor that creates a space in which groups of individuals can collectively and freely apply their talents to address different aspects of a societal issue.

In «In the Wake of the Storm,» which is now available at www.EducationNext.org and will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Education Next, Harvard researcher Michael Henderson tells the story behind the passage of voucher legislation in Louisiana and identifies the election of Bobby Jindal, a popular governor committed to school choice, as the most critical factor.

Hess succeeds in posing a challenge to those who see choice and competition - the manipulation of incentives, if you will - as a way of improving schools without getting bogged down in the nitty - gritty issues of providing a quality education.

Along the way, some issues of key interest to education reformers — most conspicuously school accountability, teacher quality, and choice — have vanished from the QC calculus.

«School Choice Marches Forward» will appear in the Winter 2013 issue of Education Next and is now available online at www.educationnext.org.

This report provides less guidance on the broader issue of the ideal level of government regulation in private school choice programs.

Although James Tooley reveals a lively private education sector in the most unlikely of places (see also Tooley's story «Underground Education,» p. 22, this issue), school choice is as uneven and limited in other parts of the world as it is in the United States.

No matter how much energy and money we spend working on systemic issues — school choice, funding, assessments, accountability, and the like — not one of these policies educates children.

In this regard, the National Commission report issued by the centrist Brookings Institution remains a good place to begin, despite the fact that it is a bit boring and dated (2003) by the standards of the fast - changing world of school choice.

To one group of respondents we presented the issue as follows: «A proposal has been made that would give low - income families with children in public schools a wider choice, by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with government helping to pay the tuition.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

Education scholars examine the impact of school choice in a «post-desegregation era» in a series of articles published in the May issue of the Peabody Journal of Education.

Given the statute's scope, today's debate could include countless issues, such as possible changes to Title II rules on educator effectiveness, the expansion of the charter school grant program, the introduction of a private school choice initiative, reconsideration of competitive grant programs (RTTT, TIF, i3), and much more.

Whether it is the role of money in politics and the so - called «donor class,» the emergence of Republican majorities in formerly blue states like her native Michigan, or the still - rocky relationship between accountability and school choice, DeVos has become a convenient proxy for these larger issues.

For example, in 2016 the AFC issued its first - ever «report card» ranking states by the quality of their private - school choice programs, and its scorecard values academic, administrative, and financial accountability, not just access.

It is the Chinese version of school choice, a hot issue in the United States.»

At the same time, it includes a reiteration of traditional party stances on such issues as school choice and school prayer.

Today, 28 states and the District of Columbia (D.C.) operate 54 private - school - choice programs, which include not only government - issued vouchers but also -LSB-...]

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73 percent of respondents said they would be more inclined to support the requirement if the subject choice was more flexible, and 74 per cent indicated that their school does not have enough teachers in the EBacc subjects, highlighting the current issue of teacher shortages across the country.

School choice is, indeed, the civil - rights issue of today.

Parents in Detroit confronted more barriers to choice than those in any other city in our sample: they cite safety issues, lack of transportation, and lack of information as serious barriers to finding a good school.

In multi-ethnic societies, including Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, the paper shows that imposing a dominant language through a school system — while sometimes a choice of necessity — has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.

One of the many issues facing schools today is the subject choice they offer their students.

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We also set aside important issues of school capacity and potential responses to a new school choice policy (such as the opening of new schools or closing of existing ones).

Trump didn't say much about school choice during the campaign and, since the election, he's been so busy — what with blasting the mayor of London and Comey and all — that he hasn't much focused on the issue.

Though some education issues are evergreen (say, the importance of highly effective teachers and strong content standards), much has changed over the last decade - plus in the world of private school choice.

This week, a dozen civil rights groups issued a statement in support of testing, noting that when parents opt out, even over legitimate concerns, «they're not only making a choice for their own child, they're inadvertently making a choice to undermine efforts to improve schools for every child.»

In 2017, we witnessed a significant elevation of private - school choice as an issue and an unprecedented wave of attacks — even hysteria — from the other side.

In my view, the big parts also need a total makeover — and would be a terrific vehicle for school choice akin to Florida's McKay Scholarship Program — but everyone in Washington seems allergic to touching special ed, an issue that would challenge even the most politically sure - footed of Presidents.

She will face questions on a range of issues, perhaps most importantly on her record as a school - choice friendly philanthropist in her home state of Michigan.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

But there is risk of overstating results from any single study, especially on issues as controversial and polarizing as private school choice.

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.

But the report's ink was barely dry before Coleman injected the issue of school choice into the discussion.