Sentences with phrase «over their school choice policy»

For a few years now, the town of Croydon, NH (population 651) has been fighting with the governor and state board of education over their school choice policy.

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The debate over national school choice policy was on display in Indianapolis Monday as US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos came to the capital city...

And whether to eat one over the other isn't an obvious choice, because each has advantages and disadvantages, said Alice Lichtenstein, a professor at Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

Mike and my friend Jason Bedrick, a policy analyst at the Cato Institute, have been exchanging friendly fire over school choice and accountability.

The two most important changes in American education policy over the past several decades have been the expansion of school choice and changes to school accountability.

The goal of Louisiana's private school choice policy is to expand over time the number of high quality, free or low - cost schooling options available to low - income families.

DeVos has a long history of supporting the kinds of accountability and school - choice policies that a broad swath of the education - reform community has championed over the last two decades.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

International evidence suggests that adoption of market - based education policies that rely on school choice and competition between schools over enrollment often leads to segregation of children into different schools according to their socio - economic background, race or parents» awareness of educational opportunities.

More controversial in state and national policy discussions have been proposals to enable parents, especially low - income parents, to exercise greater choice over their children's education through school vouchers, tax credits, charter schools, or home schooling.

Debate over school choice will move from the policy arena to the courts following the passage of legislation last month that made Ohio and Wisconsin the first states to approve tuition vouchers for children who attend religious schools.

This is essential reading for policy specialists concerned with balancing school autonomy and government oversight, and with debates over parental choice of schools.

Given the vastness of the terrain, the course will be grounded in three education policy / reform initiatives that have gained considerable currency over the past decade: (1) Standards and Accountability (2) Teacher Quality & (3) School Choice - Vouchers and Charter Schools

Though Tuesday's result is being framed as a referendum on Bennett's school choice and accountability policies, Pastore's account squares with poll numbers suggesting conservative voters responded to arguments that school boards should have control over their own policies.

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

The education policy discourse has grown increasingly toxic in Washington, exposing deepening divides over issues ranging from K - 12 funding to school choice.

Good Morning Interesting article from The Advocate — debate over Einstein Charter Schools busing policy «pits school autonomy vs. parent choice.»

Interesting article from The Advocate — debate over Einstein Charter Schools busing policy «pits school autonomy vs. parent choice.»

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Says WILL's Education Policy Director, Will Flanders, Ph.D., author of the study, «The debate over school choice is almost always focused on the so - called costs.

Over half the states have adopted school choice policies, including 18 states that have Scholarship Tax Credit programs.

Over the last decade, Hartford started (and ended) programs and neoliberal policies such as school closures, staff reconstitution, principal «autonomy», privatization, hyper - accountability, reduced economic security for teachers, preferential hiring for inexperienced and mostly white Teach for America participants, intradistrict and interdistrict school choice.

ABOUT THE BOOK: Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top ‐ down, market ‐ focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice.

Click here for a PDF of our paper The Problem with School Vouchers Policy Brief The «school choice» movement in Pennsylvania has been gaining steam over the past several months, and while past attempts to implement a voucher program in Pennsylvania have been unsuccessful, the idea has been reintroduced in the form on Senate BSchool Vouchers Policy Brief The «school choice» movement in Pennsylvania has been gaining steam over the past several months, and while past attempts to implement a voucher program in Pennsylvania have been unsuccessful, the idea has been reintroduced in the form on Senate Bschool choice» movement in Pennsylvania has been gaining steam over the past several months, and while past attempts to implement a voucher program in Pennsylvania have been unsuccessful, the idea has been reintroduced in the form on Senate Bill 1.

This updated version features over 100 State and district resources related to making SLO policy choices, providing SLO tools, selecting or creating assessments and setting targets, communicating with teachers and principals, training district staff and school administers and ensuring continuous improvement.

The release of Diane Ravitch's new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, caused quite a stir in the education community because in it Ravitch does an about - face, criticizing the education policies she had fully supported over the years, including when she served as assistant secretary of education and counselor to Education Secretary Lamar Alexander from 1991 to 1993.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that are not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.

In my experience working with numerous policy and practice issues with school districts over the years, if a small group of parents exert their influence and assert that something is essential to the education and well - being of students that is not currently being addressed, schools and school districts have no choice but to take notice and respond.