Sentences with phrase «offer public school choice»

States would have to set aside 3 percent of their Title I funds for a competitive - grant program that would allow districts to offer public school choice or free tutoring.

Hickok: If an existing desegregation order limits public school choice, then the district has the obligation to go back to the office that issued the order to change it, so the district can offer public school choice.

The consequences for schools that failed to meet their performance targets were progressively severe — after one year, districts would be required to offer public school choice to all the students in a school; after several years, districts would be required to replace school staff, convert the school into a public charter school, or hand the school over to a private contractor.

For instance, waiver states no longer have to aim toward the (now past) 2013 - 14 deadline for getting all students to proficiency, or offer public school choice or tutoring for schools that miss achievement targets.

If a Title I school fails to meet AYP standards for a third year, students from low - income families in the school must be offered the opportunity to receive instruction from a supplemental educational services provider of their choice, in addition to continuing to be offered public school choice options.

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.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

Cuomo's announced program fails to offer a choice to children trapped in failing public schools.

The Harvard School of Public Health offers information to help you make better choices about how to eat.

[5] This central finding, together with our study, only reinforces our ultimate conclusion: it is critical to consider what kinds of choices we are offering families in urban, suburban and rural areas across the country, and in charter or traditional public schools alike.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

Washington — Secretary of Education William J. Bennett last week offered a broad and emphatic defense of tuition tax credits and compensatory - education vouchers, saying that increased parental choice would be «one of the best catalysts» for improving public schools.

Because the effects of competition on the performance of traditional public schools can be identified best during periods in which the amount of competition is changing, these years offer a convenient way to test the effects of expanded school choice.

Roughly 70 percent of districts also offered parents some degree of choice among public schools or the option of applying to a magnet school.

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.

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 throughSchool 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 throughschool students about to enter grades two through five.

«The public educational system is a monopoly,» he wrote in 1967, offering choice only to «those who [can] afford to buy education outside the public schools» and thereby amplifying the influence of family background on student achievement.

Many large districts have embraced a portfolio model of school choice governance, which intentionally offers a wide array of public (and sometimes private) school choices to parents.

School choice is a term for K — 12 public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence.

The growth of for - profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school choice movement, is rooted in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize public education, offering high quality at reduced cost.

This project, in partnership with the School Choice Demonstration Project at the University of Arkansas, addresses the effects of LSP vouchers on the achievement and non-cognitive skills of students offered vouchers, as well as racial segregation and the competitive effects on students in public schools.

The city of New Orleans offers an ideal laboratory for examining how much true «choice» resides in a public school market.

Find details about the various forms of private and public school choice programs offered in all 50 states.

Public school districts similarly offer choice and magnet programs that entice students to leave zoned schools, which theoretically «hurts» the zoned schools in the same way as you suggest vouchers do.

In his latest opinion piece, Jeb Bush continues to push the mistaken idea that public schools are broken and he offers his usual money making ideas of choice and digital learning.

For those who worry about the unpredictable consequences of vouchers, but who recognize the need to bring competition, choice, and change to public schools, private management offers a very attractive compromise.

Thus, taking travel distance and local neighborhood demographics into account, a public school of choice that over represents white middle - class students based on the results of unconstrained lotteries might, instead, dispense offers of admission based on lotteries in which students from low - income families or families from neighborhoods in which blacks predominate have higher odds of selection.

Public school choice offers students a chance to follow their interests, but it comes at a price, chipping away at the sense of community once common among neighbors.

Other data about the state show that New Hampshire offers few options for public school choice.

«If Dan Patrick and his followers wanted to give all students and their parents a meaningful educational choice, they would more adequately fund public education, so that children of all economic backgrounds would have a full menu of academic offerings and electives in their neighborhood public schools,» said Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria.

Those votes, and the discussions that preceded them, offer a glimpse into the vision lawmakers had for public charter schools and school choice as they passed our state's charter law.

We're glad to see the state answer the call and offer some of the thousands of children on charter waiting lists access to their preferred public school of choice.

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The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

The top public district high schools are not comprehensive high schools, but «choice» schools which focus on high - achieving students and offer an AP - oriented curriculum.

As public charter schools continue to expand here in Arizona, more students are able to access the quality choice offered by these innovative schools.

«Although the current dialogue about school choice is generally focused on charter schools, vouchers, and the overall diversion of taxpayer monies to private entities, it misses a fundamental reality: Most public school districts already offer a wide range of choices to their students.»

And public schools are offering these choices while continuing to assure all students receive the foundation of knowledge and skills that prepares them for success after high school, regardless of their personal goals.

In its letter, NSBA took the opportunity to inform the conversation about the efficacy of school choice on student achievement and school performance and highlight several options that are currently offered by public school districts; from local magnet schools and charter schools authorized by local school boards to public specialty schools, such as military academies and those offering specialized curricula for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Ohio's EdChoice vouchers are offered to students assigned to chronically «under - performing» public schools, allowing students to attend schools of choice.

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As a growing, intentionally diverse network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades KSchool Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades Kschool choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves approximately 1,600 scholars in grades K - 11.

As a growing network that is part of the Charter School Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 scSchool Growth Fund portfolio, BVP offers a high - quality public school choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 scschool choice to the families of Central Falls, Cumberland, Lincoln, and Pawtucket and currently serves 1,800 scholars in grades K - 12 across 6 schools.

Instead of pretending to be ideologically neutral, public schooling could offer parents a variety of choices that reflect their beliefs and their children's pedagogical needs.

Public schools offer a significant variety of choices and strategies to address individual students» needs / interests.

The Republican presidential nominee and founder of Trump University accused Democrats of trapping black and Hispanic youth in failing public schools and offered the postern door of school choice through a proposed block grant, voucher - like program in which per pupil expenditures would follow students to the school of their parents» liking.

Touted as a way to provide school choice to parents, vouchers are promoted as an exit strategy for low - income students who are faced with poor educational offerings in the public school system.

Today, our school district is a leader and innovator in public education, offering families some of the best educational choices in Iowa as we become the nation's model for urban education.

The report notes that while larger public high schools offer more program choices than smaller ones, even small public schools do better compared to private high schools in programs for which data is available: Gifted or Honors classes, Advanced Placement, and distance learning.