Sentences with phrase «on school choice measures»

Early reports show an emphasis on school choice measures.

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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.

Former NYC Mayor Mike Michael Bloomberg is among the nation's top financial backers of the school - choice movement, topping the list of New York's political contributors by donating $ 1.8 million to ballot measures and political action committees focused primarily on school choice.

For example, your elected officials should be focused on things like equal access to essential public services, fair governmental priorities and policies, city hall policies, school district choices, and public health measures.

This vacuum stems not only from the difficulty of the endeavor but also from a persistent national clash between an obsession to train students solely for high scores on multiple - choice tests and an angry disenchantment with measuring progress of public schools, educators, or education schools.

The Citizens» Commission on Civil Rights, along with the Aspen Institute's NCLB Commission and other proponents, have proposed tough new measures to guarantee public school choice to children who attend persistently low - performing schools.

Research on private school choice is much better equipped to measure the effects on participants» outcomes than to offer guidance on policy design.

As the cohorts have aged, it is now possible to measure the effects of small schools on college enrollment and choice, outcomes that have never been examined before.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings will host a live webcast of an event in conjunction with the release of its report, «Measuring the Influence of Education Advocacy: The Case of Louisiana's School Choice Legislation,» on Tues., Dec. 10 at 10 am.

While the choice sector as a whole looks pretty good on test scores and other measures, the averages mask poor performance from a significant minority of choice and charter schools.

On the left, some of the opposition to Common Core and its assessments is related to broader resistance to high - stakes testing, the linking of student scores to teacher evaluations, and other reform measures such as school choice, which some see as «corporate school reform.»

Debates about school choice policies often focus on their impacts on student achievement, typically as measured by standardized tests.

To the extent that better information improves the match between families and schools or leads to pressure on schools to increase measured achievement, this effect can augment the impacts of school - choice policies.

Finally, we also gather data on the number of charter schools in each search unit as an additional measure of school choice.

Reblogged this on Afield in Iowa and commented: A great article on School Choice and «accountability» measures.

The measure was based on the share of students attending schools of choice, the strength of charter laws in each state (including, of course, the strength of the authorizing and quality control system), and a gauge of parent influence on policy.

The schools in the Imagine family share a common culture based on Shared Values (Integrity, Justice and Fun) and Six Measures of Excellence — Academic Growth, Parent Choice, Shared Values, Character Development, School Development, and Economic Sustainability.

Most recently he co-authored two CRPE reports on the challenges of public oversight in cities with large charter school sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cschool sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cSchool Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cSchool Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cities.

This annual survey — developed and reported by EdChoice and interviews conducted by our partner, Braun Research, Inc. — measures public opinion and awareness on a range of K — 12 education topics, including parents» schooling preferences, educational choice policies, the federal government's role in education and more.

Vos said the ability to convert public schools to independent charter schools makes the bill «tougher on the choice schools and charter schools than it is on public schools,» but said the measure's goal is to ensure all schools receiving taxpayer dollars are treated the same way.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

Voucher schools must be held responsible, and if we are to keep the choice program in place, then measure must be put in place to hold schools accountable when they do not meet the same expectations placed on traditional public schools and charter schools.

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However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

For example, low - and high - income parents both select schools based on school quality - but they use different measures of quality, according to a new study of school choice in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis.

Critics of the publicly - funded vouchers say the program — a favorite of school choice advocates — would spend millions in state dollars over the next decade on primarily religious private schools exempted from many of the accountability and anti-discrimination measures imposed on traditional public schools.

Even as the party itself is divided over embracing Common Core standards, has a retrograde on education in the form of House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (who wants to eviscerate the strong accountability measures contained in the No Child Left Behind Act), and had a primary race for the presidential nod that had seen aspirants backtrack (of offer little information) on their respective school reform agendas, Republicans were able to paper over these issues thanks to strong calls by former Florida governor Jeb Bush, Texas teacher Sean Duffy, and onetime Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for expanding school choice, advancing Parent Power, and overhauling how teachers are recruited, trained, managed, and compensated.

Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.

«The Flippen Group's easy to follow step - by - step approach to Capturing Kids» Hearts has enabled my staff to effectively create positive choices for challenging and disruptive students, and has made a positive impact on our school's overall climate that is measured not only in the progress seen on our school's New York City Progress Reports, but also in the very feeling of our building when you enter it.

Lake and DeArmond examine Fordham's new study on school choice in light of findings from our recent Measuring Up report, and conclude that choice friendliness is no guarantee of good things happening for kids.

One (of the many) problems with imposing testing requirements on schools of choice is that it highlights a measure of performance that grossly under - states the benefits of choice.

Cascade's founders helped put an initiative (Measure 11) on Oregon's 1990 General Election ballot which would have given every Oregon K - 12 student a refundable tax credit to exercise full school choice.

While there are clear exceptions to the generalizations I will make in this analysis, I have chosen to focus on charter schools that exemplify a trend of exclusion that compromises the ideals of the school choice system as a whole, demonstrating how the model fails to measure up to the paragon of student and parent autonomy lauded by choice proponents.

Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice collected the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.