Sentences with phrase «other school choice reforms»

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Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

Proponents of market - based education reform often argue that introducing charter schools and other school choice policies creates a competitive dynamic that will prompt low - performing districts to improve their practice.

Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials — whether Latino or not — often reject school choice.

And the beauty of expanding school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate choice families pushing for more choices.

By making equal opportunity a central theme of the movement, organizations such as the BAEO, the Friedman Foundation (established by Milton and Rose Friedman and now known as EdChoice), Democrats for Education Reform, and other groups in favor of school choice have put Republican support at risk by emphasizing the role that vouchers can play in opening school doors to the disadvantaged.

Expanding school choice, like almost all of education reform, occurs in the states, so who is in charge in DC will not make too much of a difference other than turning a headwind into a tailwind.

Latinos themselves support education reform at higher levels than other groups, but their elected officials often reject school choice.

This is mainly because school choice and other education reform proposals often come from the Republican Party.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

In opting out of public schools, Choice parents are helping to reform a Milwaukee Public School (MPS) system that has resisted or subverted other reform efforts.

Other possible approaches to improving student achievement — school accountability, school choice, reform of the teaching profession — are misguided, counterproductive, and even dangerous.

School choice has provoked more political conflict than any other education reform because it is the most threatening to established interests, especially union interests.

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.»

This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.

He has written numerous articles for academic journals and other publications on such topics as school finance, school desegregation, school choice, school governance, a right to preschool, teacher compensation reform, and the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

He is also the author or editor of numerous other publications including the following: School Choice International: Exploring public private partnerships (co-editor with Rajashri Chakrabarti) School Money Trials: The Legal Pursuit of Educational Adequacy (co-editor with Martin R. West) Reforming Education in Florida: A Study Prepared by the Koret Task Force on K - 12 Education (editor) The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (with William G. Howell) Generational Change: Closing the Test Score Gap (editor) No Child Left Behind?

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Perhaps more than any other aspect of the education - reform agenda, school choice has exposed President Obama's unlovely habit of paying lip service to post-partisanship while operating very much as a partisan.

Still, the book falters when it claims that union power will eventually be weakened by school accountability, school choice, and other reforms.

Yet ESAs continue to push the envelope of education reform, consistent with the theme of 2011's other school - choice programs.

Reforms address class size, school size, teacher «dispositions,» parental choice, alternative certification, and other features of the system, but the basic machinery remains in place.

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Others members who support parent choice and equity include Gloria Bonilla - Santiago, LEAP Academy; Nicole Cole, NJ Charter Schools Association; Janellen Duffy, JerseyCAN; Shavar Jeffries, Former Assistant Attorney General and current Executive Director of Democrats for Education Reform; and Tia Morris, Teach for America.

The same page specifically nails several governors for having the audacity to promote school choice and other child - friendly reforms.

These are some of the leading examples of school choice — a catchy phrase referring to what others call education reform or, more simply put, school privatization — and the movement has most definitely made inroads in North Carolina.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

Among other policy reforms, the report recommends that states expand Common Core standards and provide parents with enhanced school choices fueled by a more equitable allocation of resources.

For the past few years, the idea of charter schools, school choice and other education reforms have sprung up again.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Parent Power activists will also likely have a few choice words for Malloy, who left those groups and other reformers off his school finance reform panel.

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

In addition to the small learning communities, San Diego is also using other reform models, all with the intent of breaking down the larger comprehensive high school and ultimately offering students a choice among many different kinds of schools that would suit their needs.

Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cChoice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cSchool District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cschool choicechoice.

Ending traditional school funding — especially the use of property tax dollars as a funding source for districts and schools (which account for 34 percent of school funding in the Wolverine State)-- would get rid of excuses traditional districts use to oppose all forms of school choice, keep poor and minority kids out of the schools they operate, and refuse to take on other systemic reforms.

We hope that we can continue to partner with the district in innovative ways to turn around low - performing schools — whether it's an equitable Public School Choice process or other reform initiative — and to pursue our common goal of ensuring that every student in Los Angeles receives a high - quality public education.»

In the film, the single mom teams up with others to turn the failing school into a charter school and the teachers union fights against reforms, such as greater teacher accountability and more school choice.

They will need to extinguish fires in Oklahoma, Tennessee, Alaska, Indiana, Wisconsin and elsewhere, as school choice and other education reforms have been embraced by many on both sides of the political aisle.

In 1989, the country passed a set of ambitious education reforms based on the same arguments for school choice that DeVos and others have made here.

Others say that the declines can't be blamed on free schools — it's impossible to parse out the impact of choice compared to other reforms made at the same time, such as decentralizing the education system.

The Chartering and Choice as an Achievement Gap - Closing Reform report shows that California charter public schools are effectively accelerating the performance of African American public school students, and that African American students are enrolled at higher percentage in California charters, among other findings.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

«The first half of his tenure was marked by a series of reforms: closing more than one dozen failing schools and programs and creating several others that have thrived; decentralizing the system by cutting the headquarters staff by more than half; giving principals power over budget decisions; creating choice for city families, and competition among middle and high schools; and signing a landmark pay - for - performance teachers» union contract that was hailed as a model in the nation.

As a school - choice advocate, she is well - positioned to put her stamp on the expansion of charter schools and other effective - but often controversial - education reforms.

On the other hand, these reforms were poorly designed to ensure quality education for all students and left many schools severely under - enrolled through the process of unregulated / unplanned school choice and constant crisis from high - stakes testing.

How does a policy of school choice compare to other reform initiatives in their perceived efficacy for school improvement?

He evaluates school choice programs and other educational reforms nationally and internationally.

Instead, solutions to the achievement gap must come from accountability, school choice, or other reforms designed to obtain better outcomes using a fixed set of resources.

The evidence base is growing in other areas as well — from home visiting to preschool, from the early teaching of reading and math to the rising graduation rates of small high schools of choice, from programs that facilitate the transition from high school to higher education to college reforms that dramatically accelerate and increase degree attainment.