Sentences with phrase «placed in schools of their choice»

Over 36,000 Basic Certificate Examination School (BECE) students were not placed in schools of their choice because they failed in either English or Mathematics.

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, and by working to lower the occurrence of unwanted pregnancies in the first place — which means better sexual health education in schools, funding for birth control measures and education about using that birth control, promoting research into methods of safe male birth control, and creating an environment where the women in your life can come to you to discuss safe sexual choices.

Christian education is in the world and for the world... man must work out his salvation in the concrete situation in which God has placed him; not by protection but by contributing to the whole human community of which he is an integral and inseparable part... parents, who have the first and the inalienable right and duty to educate their children, should enjoy true freedom in the choice of their schools, etc..»

Less freedom of food choice in our public schools or places like NYC.

- The Department of Education, which has for years pushed an agenda that places paramount importance on schools» test scores, especially in reading and math, leaving no time for the nutrition education which is such an important part of helping children learn to make sensible eating choices.

Children who like or benefit from a lot of structure may struggle to learn in a Montessori or Waldorf school, as both of those philosophies place emphasis on child choice rather than rigid classroom structures.

Special events celebrating the quality and choice of local game will take place all over the UK, including a game and beer tasting on 14 November at the visitor centre in the Hook Norton brewery in Oxfordshire and a game dinner and country clothing fashion show in the 18th century Taunton School on 17 November.

«Today's announcement shows that we will not waver in pressing ahead with our plans to open 500 more of these innovative and exciting schools over the next five years, creating 270,000 places, delivering an excellent education and giving parents across the country real choice for their children.»

We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.

This, of course, means that you have to apply to schools before knowing if you have a place on your first - choice course — something to bear in mind if you have to travel between school and university each day.

When she lands in her school's theater department, Lady Bird (yup, the name is a choice, too), thinks she has found her place but it, too, has a way of disappointing.

But today, charter schools enroll about 30 percent of Newark's students citywide, making Newark one of the nation's several «high - choice» cities: places where charter schools are in the mainstream, not on the margin.

In total, about 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lotterIn total, about 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lotterin a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.

More than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their children.

The result is the «intent - to - treat» effect of winning a lottery; it is an intent because students offered a place in their first - choice school did not always take it (for example, they may have moved out of the district).

The major substantive chapters of the book place Swedish expenditure and achievement in comparative perspective (in both, Sweden rates high); show that the decline in education inputs during the 1990s worsened the teacher - student ratio and teacher quality; review the international research on the effects of school choice; and test for the effects of school choice in Sweden on achievement.

Although James Tooley reveals a lively private education sector in the most unlikely of places (see also Tooley's story «Underground Education,» p. 22, this issue), school choice is as uneven and limited in other parts of the world as it is in the United States.

In this regard, the National Commission report issued by the centrist Brookings Institution remains a good place to begin, despite the fact that it is a bit boring and dated (2003) by the standards of the fast - changing world of school choice.

Importantly, Moe finds that «the effect of choice... is to reduce the social differences between public and private» in terms of the educational background, income, race, and religiosity of parents who would place their children in private schools.

Because they were more interested in promoting equality of opportunity than simply consumer choice, sociologist Christopher Jencks and law professors John Coons and Stephen Sugarman proposed placing some constraints on how vouchers could be used: Disadvantaged students would receive larger vouchers, and regulations would prevent any school that accepted vouchers from imposing tuition and fees beyond the value of the voucher.

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The Australian Education Union has placed the ads in major papers across the country, claiming voters have a «stark and important» choice to make this election about the future of schools.

Bad private schools will get lots of media attention, which will drive down public support for school choice and strengthen the hands of those who opposed such programs in the first place and are just waiting to eradicate them.»

That's why the Romney plan is apt to do some good in states (and districts) that want to extend more school choices to their students — the federal dime can join the 90 cents in state and local funds in the kids» backpacks — but won't make much difference in places that aren't willing to put their own resources into this kind of reform.

(Dozens of selective high schools in New York City — not including the eight that rely entirely on test scores — follow a complex citywide dual - track choice - and - selection process akin to the «match» system by which medical residents get placed.)

As O'Brien notes, a system of school choice would sever the ties between housing and education, which is a policy that could keep «many people from becoming cash - poor and wealthy — a precarious thing — in the first place.»

The figure represents an increase of 1,000 pupils who will not get their first choice compared to 2015, and means children in London are the least likely in the country to get a place at their preferred school.

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«School choice advocates place great faith in the market model, assuming that parents will be good shoppers and will move their children into higher quality, more responsive schools,» said Bruce Fuller, codirector of the study.

Simply examining the association between choice policies and school searches would be misleading, because areas that have more school choice may have more search behavior for any number of reasons, including perhaps that their residents had higher demand for choice options in the first place.

He applauds the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program for arming parents with choice, and allowing students to enroll in a program that graduates 26 % more DC students than traditional public schools and places 90 % of its graduates on the path to college.

With few exceptions, researchers are not able to determine how much selection bias exists when various quasi-experimental approaches are used in place of experimental ones within a school choice context.

Fewer children are getting their first choice of school, a new study has found, with most new places for pupils being created in institutions that are getting worse.

Finally, in discussing the OSP's impact on expanding school choice for parents, Professor Wolf relates that approximately 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.

But whereas charter schools and voucher programs have drawn most of the attention and political controversy as spearheads of the choice, the dominant form of school choice that severs the connection between place of residence and school assignment is open enrollment in traditional public schools.

But in public schools, parents retain some power of choice if, for example, they can afford to select their place of residence to place their children in a particular school district.

These facilitate both informed school choices by parents — provided, of course, that policies permitting such choices are in place — and school interventions by state and local authorities.

This pressure will also come from some of the creators of the new schools of choice, who will feel the effort to reach the standard will undermine what is original and distinctive in the school's approach, the reason for its creation in the first place.

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.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

In Texas, school choice has gotten support from high places, particularly from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who has made it a top priority of his legislative agenda.

Today's announcement shows that we will not waver in pressing ahead with our plans to open 500 more of these innovative and exciting schools over the next 5 years, creating 270,000 places, delivering an excellent education and giving parents across the country real choice for their children.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «Our proposals are about creating more choice, with more good school places for more parents in more parts of the country.

I forget, if a school is placed in program improvement does that school's students get to transfer to their school of choice within the district?

Almost a third of families in London did not get their first choice of secondary school, as places are allocated on National Offer Day.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said: «More and more parents have the choice of a good school place thanks to our reforms - the number of children in failing secondary schools has fallen by a quarter of a million since 2010.

The aim of the project is to establish a successful, co-educational state boarding school in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead as part of the Government's Free Schools programme, to meet the need for more secondary school places and to provide more choice of state school offering to parents.

It's simply unreasonable to point to them as evidence that school choice doesn't work when, in fact, a much larger body of other evidence suggests that it works in many other places.

School choice programs effect the flow of some of this money while leaving the rest in place.

Washington, D.C. is a prime example of a growing city with a thriving school choice program in place.