These successful candidates will establish a majority on the seven - member board that will protect parental choice and preserve high -
quality public school options for students.
But in cities with
multiple public school options, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families, whether they choose a charter or district public school?
Twenty years ago state legislators began to approve charter schools in order to give
families public school options other than their district or neighborhood schools.
This new groundbreaking case challenges a set of state laws and policies that actively prevent students from accessing even minimally
acceptable public school options.
This report examines the experience of parents in cities with
multiple public school options to answer the question, how can civic leaders create a choice system that works for all families?
At that time, the quality of
public schooling options available to these young people was much lower than the schools available to their wealthier peers in and outside of Boston.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan today announced the award of three charter school grants, totaling $ 54.8 million, to
increase public school options in Minnesota, New Jersey and Massachusetts.
If passed, SB 1362 would have severely limitied future high - quality
charter public school options in California and potentially precipitated the closure of existing high - quality charter public schools.
The Mind Trust has received a $ 588,000 award from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to support Enroll Indy, a new nonprofit that will provide families with a central hub for information
on public school options and how to enroll their child in one of those schools.
Currently under development, Enroll Indy will be a new nonprofit that will create a unified enrollment system in Indianapolis to provide parents with a central hub for information about
various public school options and how to enroll their child in one of those schools.
Several aspects of the current public school choice landscape pose significant barriers that prevent many low - income families from accessing higher
performing public school options:
The SPLC's complaint is designed to protect the existing — and deeply flawed — system and take away new, high - quality
public school options from low - income students in Mississippi.
Though Indiana's private school choice programs have a high retention rate (84 percent), more than half of the students who did decide to leave those programs
chose public school options, including neighborhood public schools and public charter schools.
These families are picking outside of
Oakland public school options going to private schools, driving, or taking the bus outside of Oakland to take their children to school, not going to school at all, or home school.
Florence county offers 1
traditional public school option - but eAchieve Academy offers another option for students with special circumstances or looking to build their skills outside of the classroom.
As an expression of cohesive philanthropy and strategic alignment, CEP's emerging board is currently made up of representatives of the Goldsbury Fund, the Ewing Halsell Foundation, the San Antonio Area Foundation / John Louis Santikos Foundation and the 80/20 Foundation — all working together to support
excellent public school options that sustainably put all children on the path to success in college and their careers.
Duncan argues the state needs to emphasize
strong public school options including high quality charter schools, rather than subsidizing private schools.
Walker and Republicans have been supportive of expanding Milwaukee's voucher program, arguing it gives parents unhappy
with public schools another option for educating their children.
When his father can no longer cover the bill for Aidan's kids» private school education and their
only public school option is a school «on its last legs,» Aidan opts to give home - schooling a shot.
For all the reform talk these days about personalization and flexibility, we still
deny public schools the option to say to a student, «We are going to get you through this.
Two thousand and five hundred Manhattan - residing children are tested at the kindergarten level by parents who believe Hunter will be better for them than any
other public school option.
These policies are 1) raising education spending (with several possible routes for allocating those funds); 2) accountability for teachers and schools; 3) enhanced choice
among public school options, especially charter schools; and 4) early childhood education.
About PCSB: The DC Public Charter School Board (PCSB) is setting a national model for creating quality
public school options through its rigorous review of new charter applications and effective oversight of charter school performance that is leading the transformation of public education in Washington, DC.
According to State Superintendent of Education, Molly M. Spearman, «Providing
public school options based on the needs of individual students and families is important to ensure that every child meets the Profile of the South Carolina Graduate.»
Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent
Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»
In short, racially diverse,
vibrant public school options in which teachers think of student diversity as an asset to explore and build upon in the classroom would keep more affluent parents and their resources in public schools.
They brought with them pro-school choice literature that — while paid for by a little - known, at least in North Carolina, nonprofit
called Public School Options — almost exclusively plugs the controversial N.C. Virtual Academy, an online school run by for - profit operator K12 Inc. that's been troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.
K - 12 has at least five registered lobbyists arguing for them at the legislature today, and
although Public School Options appears to have no officially disclosed relationship with a virtual charter, the group is distributing fliers that purport to tell the story of struggling students who saw major turnarounds after enrolling at K12's N.C. Virtual Academy.
CONNECTICUT CHARTER SCHOOL ASSOCIATION SUPPORTS PARENT PLAINTIFFS DEMANDING ACCESS TO BETTER
PUBLIC SCHOOL OPTIONS Federal lawsuit Martinez v. Malloy Challenges State Laws That Limit Connecticut Families» Access to Quality Schools
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