Sentences with phrase «offering more school choice»

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Not exact matches

Some churches offer a menu full of choices: men's / women's; singles / couples; youth and children's ministries (which will be more important as years go by); mentoring / discipleship; Sunday school.

The industry has taken significant measures to provide consumers with more options and information to allow informed dietary choices through developing reformulated products to offer low and no - sugar varieties, voluntarily displaying kilojoule information on the front of labels and restricting sales of regular kilojoule soft drinks in schools.

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.

The same study found that kids ate more fruits and vegetables at schools which did not also offer competing «a la carte» choices.

Believe it or not, your children's school is better because the students are offered more choices and variety.

They are wanting to eat more salads and fruits and less fried foods — so right at the age where they are most open to making healthy choices, school isn't offering it to them.

Recent federal recommendations against offering the inhaled nasal influenza vaccine due to lack of effectiveness could lead to more flu illness in the U.S. if the inhaled vaccine becomes effective again or if not having the choice of the needle-less vaccine substantially reduces immunization rates, according to a new analysis led by University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine scientists.

The USDA is now requiring schools to offer more than one choice in fat content for milk, with an emphasis on lowfat and nonfat milk.

The Federal government offers Magnet Schools Assistance grants to districts as a way to promote this more positive school choice option that meets the unique needs of the learners who attend them.

In fact, charter school authorizers are now expected to play an even more assertive role in ensuring that charter schools offer parents high - quality choices and not simply more choices for their children's education.

Students in schools that offered Healthy Choices were more likely to watch less television, be less sedentary, and more likely to play fewer video / computer games.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

Traditional higher education schools are competing with blue - collar professions, schools that offer particular certifications in lieu of college degrees, and prospects have many more school choices than years gone by.

At a time when American education is striving to customize its offerings to students» interests and needs, and to afford families more choices among schools and education programs, the market is pointing to the skimpy supply of schools of this kind.

David Osborne, senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, completed an analysis of D.C.'s two sectors, documenting how competition led the district sector to emulate charters in many ways, including more diverse curriculum offerings; new choices of different school models; and reconstituting schools to operate with building level autonomy, especially giving principals freedom to hire all or mostly new staff.

Once again, the broader lens offers the more favorable view of school choice.

Over recent years, the lure of the nearby fish and chip shops and supermarkets offering pre-packaged, on - the - go snacks have tempted teenagers off - site, and a vicious circle has been created where lack of customers has meant less money for schools and caterers, leading to less meal choice and drab dining areas in need of a spruce, leading to — yes, you guessed it — more children taking their money elsewhere.

I say this as one of the few government administrators openly interested in the rights of low - income families to access non-governmental schools: Absent better systemic answers than those offered by ideologues, publicly funded private school choice for all children will continue to be more of a factor in legislative debates and scholarly conferences than in the homes and neighborhoods of America's youth.

These departures cost the district $ 125 million in lost revenues each year and left many school buildings half - empty... The exposé provided an opening for then - Superintendent Michael Bennet and the school board to pursue a more aggressive set of reforms focused on improving school quality and offering families greater choice.»

WeVideo, the collaborative digital video storytelling choice of more than 6,500 schools worldwide, recently announced that it has joined with Google to expand availability of the Creative Apps for Chromebooks offering to the UK and Nordic countries.

EW: It's one thing to offer students more healthful food choices at home and in school — but how do you convince them to select those foods?

The schools will open under the government's free schools programme to offer parents more choice and help raise educational standards.

Now that many students have the opportunity to take online courses, schools and districts are starting to offer more choices when it comes to providers and accessing virtual education.

Since all three choice sectors — private, charter, and district schools of choice — are offering parents educational options that are considerably more satisfying, one must expect the market demand for educational alternatives to increase.

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.

Instead, state leaders should work to strengthen state standards and tests, provide school performance information to parents and taxpayers, and empower parents to act on school performance data by offering more school - choice options.

In the past five years, the federal government has offered incentives and resources for states to lift academic standards, fix schools that have struggled for decades, offer more choices to parents, and strengthen teaching through more accurate educator evaluations.

Supporters say such programs would force schools to be competitive, fostering an environment that would create educational innovation as well as offer parents more choices when it comes to their children's education.

This 2001 federal law is designed to raise academic standards, close achievement gaps, encourage more school accountability, and offer more choices to families and students.

The piece was intended to demonstrate that 1) good outcomes are associated with good choices made by families and thus 2) we can not conclude that schools and neighborhoods do not matter because such conclusions are invalidated by selection; that 3) we can not tell whether «bad» families are inefficacious because they only have bad choices open to them or because they would make bad choices even if offered good ones; and 4) we ought to be far more open to any policy that makes better choices available to families who now have little or no choice open to them.

«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.

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

Explorations stands out because it offers another choice for families in the area, making it more likely for students to find the school that best suits their individual needs.

The aim of the project is to establish a successful, co-educational state boarding school in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead as part of the Government's Free Schools programme, to meet the need for more secondary school places and to provide more choice of state school offering to parents.

But let's also assume many states have much more robust parental choice programs than they do now, with vouchers, tax credit scholarships, charter schools, virtual schools, education savings accounts and a-la-carte course offerings all on the menu.

Our schools need to offer each student a choice among six or more challenging and rigorous high school curricula, as do other, higher - performing countries.

«We are giving thousands more parents a choice of high - quality local schools that offer the excellent standard of education that all pupils deserve.»

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.

Charter schools, magnet schools, Montessori schools and many more offer choices to students and teachers alike.

Louisiana's Course Choice program allows more than 19,000 students to select from hundreds of online and face - to - face courses not offered by traditional schools.

FSM and non-FSM households are more or less equally likely to receive an offer from their first - choice school (84 per cent and 85 per cent respectively), but FSM households choose, on average, schools with lower academic attainment.

«More than 93 % of pupils have an offer from a school of their preference and 65 % have been offered a place at their first choice school.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

The Monroe Charter School lost its latest effort to continue offering school choice to more than 200 students and jobs to nearly 30 teachers in North LouiSchool lost its latest effort to continue offering school choice to more than 200 students and jobs to nearly 30 teachers in North Louischool choice to more than 200 students and jobs to nearly 30 teachers in North Louisiana.

She tells BBC Radio 4's The World at One that she is in favour of more grammar schools saying they «are a welcome addition to the choice on offer to parents» and that they will be «a 21st century model of grammar school».

Opponents of the schools argue that charters don't truly offer a choice and instead pick high - performing students to enroll because they are more likely to succeed.

It is trying to entice more able students to a school most would probably avoid by offering 30 selective places and if you're not successful you may be forced to attend the school as you need to name the school as one of your choices in order to sit the exam.

In fact, one can advocate for a much more expansive definition of public education: one that offers greater parental choice in a system that is responsive to local community and parental demand, while absolutely shunning for - profit elementary and secondary schools.