Sentences with phrase «parents more choices»

«There's nothing that ails our schools that can't be fixed by giving parents more choices and teachers more freedom to teach,» Pence said during his inaugural address in 2013.

Also high on Rhee's agenda: giving parents more choices.

We're cutting administrative waste and inefficiencies in order to protect investments in programs that boost student learning such as full school day, early childhood development and maintaining class size, while at the same time expanding high quality school options across the district to give parents more choices.

Her supporters say those measures offer parents more choices, but her critics say they drain resources from the public education system, the most important civic institution in the United States.

Besides standardizing data and defining requirements for graduation, Brodt and Bonsteel suggest giving parents more choices — vouchers, educational savings accounts, tax credit scholarships — to increase the probability of students buying into the educational process and working to gain the knowledge required to graduate.

«I'm all about giving parents more choices and from a free market perspective I think if you want to improve a system you let the consumer make a choice and in this case thats the parents.»

Number one is that I think there's nothing that ails education in Indiana if you give parents more choices and teachers more freedom to teach.

But he said he supports any tools that give parents more choices of schools, including charters, and believes too often teacher contracts get in the way of overhauling low - achieving ones.

Why not give these parents more choices?

Supporters say such programs would force schools to be competitive, fostering an environment that would create educational innovation as well as offer parents more choices when it comes to their children's education.

One short - term solution would be to give parents more choices.

«That's why these new schools are so important - they give us the school places we need for the future, and they also give parents more choices to find a great school place in their area that's right for their child.»

Not so, says the Task Force, calling instead for systemic change that will hold schools accountable, give parents more choices, and provide citizens with a transparent education system whose accomplishments they can assess.

Neither he nor most of the group's major donors would comment on their support, though Mr. Jones said in a statement, «Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable, and that's why StudentsFirstNY and others are fighting for reforms that can give parents more choices, ensure that only the best teachers are in the classroom and make sure that the best interests of the children in the system are put first.»

The coalition government is working on a green paper on SEN which will overhaul the current system by giving parents more choice.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is again pushing a tax credit plan that supporters say gives parents more choice in their children's education.

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.

There are different arguments for vouchers, such as that they would give parents more choice, reduce the role of government in education, enable parents to transmit values and religion to their children, and deliver cost - effective education.

The schools will open under the government's free schools programme to offer parents more choice and help raise educational standards.

The government's commitment to open 500 free schools over the next 5 years will create 270,000 school places across the country - giving parents more choice while challenging existing schools to up their game.

«Today, we have approved a further two new London free schools and 18 more are opening in the capital this term, creating an extra 9,000 school places, giving parents more choice than ever before.»

Many people think that charter schools are harmless alternatives to public schools, designed to give parents more choice over where to send their children.

The government says free schools will drive up standards and give parents more choice of good schools by putting more power in head teachers» hands, while some critics see them as an experimental «vanity project» which has led to schools being built where they are not needed.

The key aims of the programme, the government says, are to improve standards of education in England, particularly for poorer pupils - and to give parents more choice.

A Department for Education spokesman said free schools were «raising standards and giving parents more choice».

The Department for Education has said free schools are «raising standards and giving parents more choice».

«Nor will this policy improve parental choice, because it won't give the majority of parents any more choice than they have already.

«It will mean giving parents more choice of the public schools their children attend as one way of assuring higher quality without heavy - handed state control.»

It seems logical that we would give parents more choice,» said Crudup, whose church ran a private Christian academy.

Obama's agenda has amplified ideas that have been simmering around the country, including those championed by Republicans, among them the push to give parents more choice about where children attend school and to blast apart a long - standing system that rewarded teachers for longevity but not necessarily effectiveness.

Both Sanchez and Ratliff were strongly supportive of giving parents more choice through pilot and charter schools, with Ratliff stating «I absolutely, positively believe the district should push to establish more high performing schools, period... I think we already know what works at many schools and we need to apply that everywhere.

As the Chicago Tribute reports, some are experimenting with not only on - site babysitting services, but also offering birthday parties and open play hours, to give parents more choice and incentive to join in.

Google added that is working to add more features to YouTube Kids in the near future «that'll give parents more choice on how to customize the content that appears or doesn't appear in their YouTube Kids experience.»

Through proposals on flexible parental leave the Bill seeks to give parents more choice and flexibility about how they share the care of their child in the first year, enabling both parents to retain a strong link with the labour market.

Not exact matches

Unless you're living in a society with arranged marriages, however, this is much more about your children's choices than anything you can do for them as a parent.

«A significant expansion of the Child Tax Credit will help parents have more money at a time in their lives when they need it the most and give them the flexibility to make the best choices regarding their families» care,» Ivanka said in a statement late last month.

In the past year, Mattel collaborated with Google to make virtual reality accessible to kids, completely reinvented Barbie to give them a more diverse choice of dolls, and displayed moonshot - like vision with Fisher - Price's Future Of Parenting report.

«In their answers to almost all questions, parents are more enthusiastic about choice schools, usually by large margins.»

What Mr. Forstmann seems to ignore is that there is more educational choice available now to parents than ever before.

If it is as widely read and discussed as it deserves to be, I Am Charlotte Simmons will at least encourage parents to ask more searching questions during the recruitment process, and to make informed choices among educational institutions.

God is not responsible for the ugly mess mankind is in... no more than loving parents are responsible for bad choices their wreckless kids may take.

Surveys indicate that while parents would like more choice in education, the number for whom explicitly religious instruction is a primary consideration is relatively small; most seem content to leave that to their churches and synagogues.

The latest results, like others in recent years, show an apparent contradiction between strong support for more parent choice among schools, and....

We muslims don't call our women: Bitches, hores... and the majority of muslim women actually have the choice to choose to wear the veil (if you go to a Catholic church women are asked to wear the veil... nuns are fully covered... even Marry the mother of Jesus used to cover and that is because these women know they are diamonds and you have to really deserve her to be able to see more and that is only gonna be her husband, and parents... If you have a precious and very expensive diamond in your possession don't tell me you would leave it outside of your house but you would leave your trash outside of your house... same thing with women especially and by the way this apply to men as well in Islam... A woman actually is the queen of her household, and when they are so aware of their status within her community, as more like a mother, she is committed to her husband, kids and parents exclusively... she is busy taking care of her loved ones and enjoys it and happy so why you ask her to show you her cleavage if she doesn't think you deserve her... Muslim women are not any different than all women, they only like to wear the veil and not show their beauty to you... what?

I'd be more concerned about her choice to bring a third baby into the world (educated or not), particularly as a single parent, though it's possible she has a larger support system that I don't know of.

Naming is a parental right, even if the parent's choice says more about the parent than the child — who, fortunately, can change his / her name legally later on, like John Wayne (Marion Morrison) or Judy Garland (Frances Gumm).

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Horticulturists call this «differential reproduction,» and this term simply means that some parents will have more offspring than others because of human choice.

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Unlike their parents» and grandparents» generations, for whom marriage and parenthood were prerequisites for adulthood, young people today more often view these markers as life choices rather than requirements, as steps that complete the process of becoming an adult rather than start it.