Sentences with phrase «ordered school choice plan»

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With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

The dismissal of court - ordered plans will likely increase segregation, though modestly; the expansion of school choice will likely have a similar effect.

Although Berkeley's student assignment plan allows parents to rank - order their first - choice, second - choice, and third - choice schools, it considers a number of factors in the actual assignment process, including the parent's level of education, income, and primary language spoken at home.

Snyder will also have to push hard to expand the number of charter schools and online learning opportunities in order to provide the wide array of choices that families will seek if the plan is passed.

One of the main forces behind the shift of Sacramento High School into a charter school earlier this decade announced plans to open ten charter schools in Sacramento County in order to offer better educational choices to stuSchool into a charter school earlier this decade announced plans to open ten charter schools in Sacramento County in order to offer better educational choices to stuschool earlier this decade announced plans to open ten charter schools in Sacramento County in order to offer better educational choices to students.

For example, after spending billions building and operating magnet schools across the state in the wake of a state Supreme Court decision ordering Connecticut to desegregate Hartford schools, state lawmakers in 2009 passed a moratorium on spending state money for new magnet schools until the state education commissioner crafts a comprehensive plan for school choice in the state.

High school students making college plans should not assume that any of these plans will rescue them, nor should they blame the system and assume they have no choice but to take on massive debt in order to get a college degree.