Sentences with phrase «of school choice mechanisms»

Connecticut already has a variety of school choice mechanisms.

Not exact matches

But is the parent marketplace a good enough mechanism for gauging and producing effective schools of choice?

Parents might not know a lot about the schools their children attend, but maybe the mechanism of school choice produces good results anyway.

In 2016, 65 % of people offering an opinion on tax credits say they favor them, making this mechanism the most popular kind of school choice (see Figure 4).

Because course - choice policies have the potential for an elegant accountability mechanism tied to the financing of outcomes, once students take courses back within the traditional district schools, that accountability mechanism would go away.

Or consider private school choice mechanisms like voucher and tax credit scholarship programs: Despite the positive impacts of these programs, only eleven of our thirty cities are located in states where they are legal.

Thankfully, there is another strategy, and it's working remarkably well: Allow students to escape the worst schools through the powerful mechanism of parental choice.

The «hybridization» of home schooling has, along with other choice mechanisms and recent Establishment Clause interpretation, blurred the line between government and private educational spheres.

There must be mechanisms to ensure that schools of choice serve the most challenging students.

Third, our results suggest that online search tools such as GreatSchools can be powerful mechanisms through which to provide families with the information they need to take advantage of choice programs and about local schooling options more broadly.

As I acknowledged earlier, expanding charter schools or other choice mechanisms certainly takes a lot of policy advocacy to get off the ground, often in the face of brutal political attacks.

We know very little empirically about the degree to which public school choice writ large is associated with changes in the racial balance of schools, and if an association exists, through what mechanisms it might operate.

The choice movement, which includes vouchers for private school tuition and the creation of charter schools, sought better education through the market mechanism of having parents choose which schools their children would attend.

«While we are extremely disappointed that there was no resolution on a new funding mechanism for the state's education savings account (ESA) program, we are pleased the Nevada Legislature in a bipartisan vote remains supportive of school choice and parental empowerment.

While DeVos» lack of teaching and school administrative experience was criticized, it was her vocal support of vouchers, charter schools, and other mechanisms of school choice that troubled some senators during her confirmation hearing.

A large number of school choice systems use merit - based assignment mechanisms in which students have incomplete information and constraints on the number of choices they can list.

What isn't mentioned here, but has been by the UCLA Civil Rights Project, is that the most widely used mechanism of «choice» in the state, that is charter schools, has increased economic and ethnic segregation in the schools (see its study).

Chris Lubienski's research centers on public and private interests in education, including the use of market mechanisms such as choice and competition to improve schooling, especially for disadvantaged children.

The report's definition of school choice included a wide range of public and private options, including charter, magnet, and private schools, as well as mechanisms for accessing these options, including open enrollment, vouchers, and tax credit scholarships.

Many public school choice programs use centralized mechanisms to match students with schools in absence of market - clearing prices.

NCLB funding was money spent on annual standardized achievement testing, accountability mechanisms based on the outcomes of those tests, reporting of compliance with the law, and school choice being offered as a solution — all packaged and sold to the country as «flexibility.»

To remain competitive in a choice system, schools market to parents, and theme is one of the mechanisms by which schools differentiate themselves.

The school choice problem concerns the design and implementation of matching mechanisms that produce school assignments for students within a given public school district.

And then [CEO of Green Dot] Marco Petruzzi and [onetime school board candidate and Parent Revolution Executive Director] Ben Austin got up to the microphone, the first public speakers that day, and introduced Public School Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schschool board candidate and Parent Revolution Executive Director] Ben Austin got up to the microphone, the first public speakers that day, and introduced Public School Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schSchool Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schools].

Many school districts in the U.S. offer students a choice of schools, with seats at highly demanded schools apportioned via a centralized mechanism with random rationing.

«We hope that providing this seed money will produce financing mechanisms that can be replicated throughout the country and help increase the availability of public school choices in low - income communities,» says Balboni.