Sentences with phrase «options for families»

Honda's Pilot is one of those go - to options for families on the go.

Although we have the family - friendly Toyota Sienna for sale, there are plenty more options for families!

Charter growth in Denver meant increased options for families, but it also meant a new charter could become a zoned neighborhood's «default» and admission into a traditional public school was no longer guaranteed.

It is about limiting high quality options for families in this city and state.

Walker spokeswoman Laurel Patrick said the board would provide more educational options for families and students.

Support increased funding for parent engagement, increased educational options for families, and increased transparency about what's at stake.

«Effective charter schools provide options for families for quality public school alternatives.»

The communities he works in need change fast, and he works to spread the message of equitable funding for charters and more quality options for the families that need them the most.

Charters here are changing lives, and offering high - quality educational options for families and their children.

«It's about providing more options for families.»

We both support expanding the range of educational options for families of modest means to include private and faith - based schools, but we do so because we believe parental choice is good education policy.

This study further highlights how public charter schools providing high - quality options for families.

As a school board member, he will put students first and work tirelessly for access to high - quality educational options for all families.»

The American Federation for Children is the nation's leading school choice advocacy organization and works in states across the country to help secure additional, high - quality educational options for families.

Since then, we increased quality options for families with expanded public school choice, a needs - based voucher program, and Indiana's Charter School Board, making sure all parents — no matter where they live — have the ability to find a good school that meets their child's needs.

American Federation for Children is the nation's leading school choice advocacy organization and works in states across the country to help secure additional, high - quality educational options for families.

When most charter school laws were first passed in the 1990s, we understood the potential of charters to improve public education options for families.

One of the main goals of the charter school movement at its founding was to provide new school options for families that wanted and needed them.

«One of the key aspects of chartering in New Orleans is to provide options for families and students,» McKneely said.

Our purpose is not to compete with district schools, but to increase options for families within the public education system to pick the school that is most suitable for their child's educational well - being.

Some organizations say lack of transportation limits options for families who can't take their children back and forth to school.

As a result, some of New Jersey's legislators and community leaders have been working to elevate the quality of school options for families while also incorporating the tradition of neighborhood schools.

«That alone says that we have a problem, and we need more high quality options for our families,» Lewis said.

«There were at least three private school groups that offer high quality options for families in other states that wanted to come in, but they couldn't come in at $ 4,500,» says Enlow.

Both support expanding educational options for families.

«The goal of [our] movement is not simply to increase the number of schools and students enrolled, but, rather, the number of high - quality public school options for families who need them most,» Rees said.

His overarching vision, «North Carolina will be the education leader not just in the Southeast or in the nation, but in the world,» is achievable by traveling all five of the following paths: creating prosperity and jobs for graduates, a rewarding career for teachers and principals, instilling a joy of reading and math for every child, excellent innovative learning options for families, and cost effectiveness for taxpayers.

One argument for school choice and competition - driven school improvement is that it might lead schools to provide distinctive options for families — and a better fit between schools and student needs.

The current board majority, which took control in July, is more concerned with working effectively with charters and helping them to be successful as part of a menu of educational options for families.

Atlanta — April 2, 2013 There are currently no public charter school options for families in the City of Valdosta or in Lowndes County, but that may soon change.

I was surprised and disappointed to hear that the council that represents my city took such a politicized and senseless step to limit quality public school options for families.

Rather, we should treat the creation of these schools as a means to enhance the reflectiveness of educators, develop authoritative communities of practice, provide meaningful options for families, and improve academic, civic, and personal outcomes for young people.

We must also expand education options for families and students.

The goal is to provide additional options for families that will meet individualized learning needs of students.

The first is a dramatic increase in quality options for families in low - income communities and communities of color.

If you'll recall, in 2006 voters approved the creation of DPP to increase access to quality preschool options for families.

In order to meet this parental demand for choice and the public's desire for more high quality public educational options for families, three key things must be addressed in California: the funding inequity which results in charter school students being funded at lower levels than their traditional public school counterparts, the lack of equitable facilities for charter school students, and restrictive and hostile authorizing environments such as LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's recent resolution limiting parent choice.

How can de Blasio oppose options for families who can't afford to live in high - achieving neighborhoods or navigate the city's labyrinthine admissions process for specialized schools?

Democracy Prep seeks to create those options for families, now.

In that sense, charters help provide better options for families who need them today.

When politicians said «no,» Betsy fought successfully to bring hope and opportunity to children and to empower parents seeking higher - quality educational options for their families.

(Hanover, MD, January 15, 2013) Charter schools are the cornerstone of the movement to expand school choice options for families which has revolutionized public K - 12 education over the past two decades.

But in the meantime, while all of this time and money is sought to fix the current system, isn't it also beneficial to have more options for families that need them?

Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senate Republican Education Chairman Jeffrey Piccola and Senate Democratic Whip Anthony Williams, would greatly increase school choice options for families by creating school choice opportunity scholarships for low and middle income families across Pennsylvania and increase funding for the EITC program.

A Look Ahead At The 2016 Session January 4, 2016 by Grant Callen and Brett Kittredge During the past four years, the state legislature adopted a number of student - centered education reforms designed to provide accountability, transparency, and most importantly, new education options for families.

This marks the fifth consecutive year that the state legislature has adopted student - centered education reforms designed to provide accountability, transparency, and most importantly new education options for families.

We hope policymakers, philanthropists, and practitioners of educational choice programs will look to these results as confirmation of the success of America's largest private school choice program and as encouragement to expand K - 12 options for families across the country.»

It seems unlikely to expand school choice options for families in the middle or working classes.»

We need more school options for families, not fewer: kids shouldn't have to rely on a lottery or their parents» ability to buy a house in a certain neighborhood to get a great education.

It throws up a big obstacle for reformers in that city, in Cleveland, and elsewhere who need to use chartering as a policy to create good options for all families.