Sentences with phrase «provide public school choice»

NHA's system of schools is designed to eliminate the achievement gap and provide a public school choice to families so that their children are prepared for success in high school, college, and beyond.»

Each local educational agency that receives title I funds that has a school designated in improvement (year 2); corrective action; or restructuring pursuant to this paragraph, shall provide public school choice consistent with section 120.3 of this Title.

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But for other secular homeschoolers, those who do not follow a particular philosophy — which may either mean that they fall into the group of homeschoolers known as eclectic or that they use many public school methods — they don't or don't seem themselves as having a single, shaping vision that guides all their choices other than providing their children with an excellent, safe education.

The Parental Choice in Education Act would provide tax credits for those who donate to private and parochial schools for purposes of scholarships, tax credits to parents who pay tuition to private and parochial schools and tax credits to teachers - in both public and private schools - who make personal purchases of school supplies and food to support their underprivileged students.

Many children and parents struggle to make healthy food choices, particularly given that offices, schools, and other public settings may provide limited access to nutritious foods and snacks.

School choice activists have launched a fresh legal challenge to a Maine program that provides public funding for students to attend secular but not religious private schools.

Rather than simply providing an alternative to neighborhood public schools for a handful of students, the theory says, school choice programs actually benefit students remaining in their neighborhood schools, too.

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

• School choice — a strong effort to provide additional federal funds to states that allow funding to follow students to their public or private school of cSchool choice — a strong effort to provide additional federal funds to states that allow funding to follow students to their public or private school of cschool of choice.

All you need to know about NEA's position on charter schools is actually contained in the original 2001 policy, which states that charters should not exist «simply to provide a «choice» for parents who may be dissatisfied with the education that their children are receiving in mainstream public schools.»

But any comparison of the demographics of students in charter and traditional public schools provides at best an incomplete picture of segregation because segregation resulting from school choice policies would occur primarily across schools, not within schools.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

The law thus established a nationwide test of public school choice as a means of both providing better opportunities for individual kids and creating pressure on schools that are performing poorly.

For years, reformers of left and right have dueled over whether the best way to shake up poorly performing public schools is to provide parents with the opportunity to switch to private schools (through vouchers) or to allow parents to move their children to better public schools (through public school choice).

Attitudes: support for diversity (racial integration), a perception of inequity (that the public schools provide a lower quality education for low - income and minority kids), support for voluntary prayer in the schools, support for greater parent influence, desire for smaller schools, belief in what I call the «public school ideology» (which measures a normative attachment to public schooling and its ideals), a belief in markets (that choice and competition are likely to make schools more effective), and a concern that moral values are poorly taught in the public schools.

In the first version of its «Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&Public School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&School Choice: Non-Regulatory Guidance,» published in December 2002, the department built on these basic statutory requirements to encourage districts to provide helpful information to parents: «The [local educational agency] should work together with parents to ensure that parents have ample information, time, and opportunity to take advantage of the opportunity to choose a different public school for their children.&public school for their children.&school for their children.»

Charters are important for stimulating improvement in all public schools — and providing even more quality choices — as research has clearly shown that they do.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

An April Gallup poll, for instance, reported that 59 % of American adults agree with Trump's proposal to «provide federal funding for school - choice programs that allow students to attend any private or public school.»

On the other hand, parental choice of schools supported with public dollars would provide a more promising framework.

In most states and districts, they provide very little choice for American families and very little competition for the regular public schools.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

The sorting of children to public and private schools based in large part on random chance provides a unique opportunity to learn about the effect of choice on a variety of outcomes.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

School choice is a term for K — 12 public education options in the United States, describing a wide array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly provided schools, to which students are generally assigned by the location of their family residence.

Private school vouchers, which provide public funds for students to attend K - 12 private schools, are one example of an education reform that introduces choice and competition.

The film burnished the claim by charter advocates that they were involved in «the civil rights issue of our time,» because they were leading the battle to provide more choice to poor and disadvantaged children trapped in low - performing public schools.

The cost of busing, the harm that members of all racial communities feared that the Seattle Plan caused, the desire to attract white families back to the public schools, and the interest in providing greater school choice led the board to abandon busing and to substitute a new student assignment policy that resembles the plan now before us.

For example, Louisiana's Course Choice program provides state aid to K - 12 students to cover the cost of courses from colleges, public high schools, virtual schools, and private online providers.

The state provides families with limited public school choice.

A majority of Americans support school choice, including the idea of providing tax - funded scholarships for poor parents to send their children to public, private, or parochial schools, according to a poll released last week.

The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis of neutral, secular criteria that neither favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only as a result of numerous private choices of the individual parents of school - age children.

Most controversially, school choice also includes vouchers and tuition tax - credits, which allow families to use public dollars in order to send their children to private schools or provide tax credits to individuals or corporations that make donations to organizations that grant scholarships to students.

In «Many Options in New Orleans Choice System,» ERA - New Orleans researchers consider to what degree the city's system of school choice, where 93 percent of public school students attend charter schools, provides a variety of distinct options for famChoice System,» ERA - New Orleans researchers consider to what degree the city's system of school choice, where 93 percent of public school students attend charter schools, provides a variety of distinct options for famchoice, where 93 percent of public school students attend charter schools, provides a variety of distinct options for families.

The article's author, James A. Peyser, explains that even though Boston Public Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes BPublic Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools and the Boston Alliance for Charter Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Schools affirmed their commitment in September 2011 to «[provide] all Boston students and families with improved schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools and broader choice, [through] a new culture of collaboration between the district and charter schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools,» charter school growth is stymied by the state cap, which limits students who attend charter schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes schools to 9 percent of the total public student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Bpublic student population statewide, and to 18 percent of students in the lowest - performing districts, which includes Boston.

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 - years old this past Saturday, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

Instead they provide direction for continued need to address low performing schools, whether they are traditional public schools or schools of choice.

For example, despite the Supreme Court's 2002 Zelman decision upholding school voucher programs involving religious schools, my own chapter in the book [«School Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seschool voucher programs involving religious schools, my own chapter in the book [«School Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seSchool Choice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seChoice Litigation after Zelman»] shows how ongoing litigation in state courts continues to shape the development of programs providing school choice in both the private and public seschool choice in both the private and public sechoice in both the private and public sectors.

The study provides evidence, however, that the Choice Scholarship Program is not enrolling high - performing students compared to public school peers, aka «cream skimming.»

We then added a question presenting a direct choice between «improving existing public schools» and «providing vouchers.»

Since some Oklahoma children have already started the school year, the Education Department will phase in some of the consequences of No Child Left Behind that Oklahoma had escaped under the waiver: The state must provide tutoring services and public school choice options no later than the 2015 - 16 school year.

HB1 — The Louisiana Scholarship Program was fully funded with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, providing 8,700 students the opportunity to escape failing and underperforming public schools to attend the private school of their parents» choice for the 2014 - 15 school year.

School choice provides an opportunity for public schools to compete and improve — and for high - performing teachers to be recruited by top schools.

1) Scholarships — «Under Corbett's plan, scholarships will be provided to eligible students who will then choose to attend the public or non-public school of their choice.»

New Haven, CT — Connecticut's public charter school movement turned 20 years old this month, marking two decades of providing students with innovative and new educational opportunities and parents with real public school choice.

While reminding the audience that public charter schools prove that «quality and choice can coexist,» she added that they «are not the one cure - all to the ills that beset education» and provided an example of three successful Miami - area schools she recently visited — a public charter, a private school, and a traditional public school, noting that the common factor with all three schools was the satisfaction of the parents that their chosen school was providing their child a quality education.

Regardless of one's philosophical reaction to school choice, there's no denying providing such families the option to access their public school dollars to purchase different educational services is one way to serve underserved students.

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stPublic School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stSchool Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stChoice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stpublic school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stschool to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stpublic school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stschool of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stchoice, provided the school has room for the stschool has room for the student.

Proponents of ESAs argue these programs provide parents with more choice, flexibility and freedom to design their child's education, especially if they are dissatisfied with public school options.