Sentences with phrase «provide quality school choices»

Charter schools are here to stay, to be against them in a blanket way misses opportunities to help students, provide quality school choices, and to assure that those existing schools are delivering quality and increasing equity.

Not exact matches

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Hess succeeds in posing a challenge to those who see choice and competition - the manipulation of incentives, if you will - as a way of improving schools without getting bogged down in the nitty - gritty issues of providing a quality education.

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.

Drawing on an evaluation of the Montclair model and other research, the report concludes that school - choice plans based on magnet schools «appear most promising in meeting the educational goals of achieving racial balance, providing quality education, and offering diverse educational programs.»

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.

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.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

These departures cost the district $ 125 million in lost revenues each year and left many school buildings half - empty... The exposé provided an opening for then - Superintendent Michael Bennet and the school board to pursue a more aggressive set of reforms focused on improving school quality and offering families greater choice.»

«The state of Connecticut has done a number of things and committed hundreds of millions of dollars to improving the quality of schools and education as well as providing more choices for Hartford students and their families,» Murphy said.

But this result provides suggestive evidence that charter school entry induces parents to obtain school - quality information and that the effect of choice on demand for information may not be limited to NCLB.

«Great Ouse Primary Academy will provide much - needed high - quality places, driving up standards and ensuring even more parents have the choice of a good school place for their child.»

Universal school choice that provides access to quality educational options, as Paul Hill of the University of Washington observes, will «depend on the supply - side, that is, on the success of arrangements that promote the creation of a wide variety of school options, expose all schools to performance pressures through competition, and permit constant replacement of weak schools by promising new ones.»

The present report incorporates seven of those 13 dimensions that are outward facing for students and families and most likely, conceptually, to play a role in their exercise of school choice: Alternatives to traditional schools, e.g., number of seats in charter schools; Assignment Process, i.e., the extent of school choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the disschool choice: Alternatives to traditional schools, e.g., number of seats in charter schools; Assignment Process, i.e., the extent of school choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the disschool choice and its» fairness; Common Application for traditional and charter schools; Accessibility of information on the choice process; Understandability of the information provided to parents on which to compare schools; Transportation to schools of choice; and School Quality in the disSchool Quality in the district.

Although standardized tests can provide parents with useful information about their child's academic performance, using them to impose uniform standards that so narrowly define «quality» creates perverse incentives that narrow the curriculum, stifle innovation, and can drive away quality schools from participating in the choice program.

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.

Asked about where NHA stands, Jennifer Hoff, spokesperson for NHA, said in an email, «We hope that any final solution provides good access for quality school choice for students.»

Course choice is a program that provides public school students with expanded access to quality education courses regardless of their location.

Requiring states and districts to provide information on the quality and extent of school choice options — including whether the districts have open enrollment policies and the number of seats actually available to families who are not teachers or school employees — would go a long way.

Said President and CEO Al Dubin, «This grant will allow CSDC to support more charter school founders dedicated to improving the educational outcomes of the children in their communities by providing quality educational choice in a responsive, fiscally sustainable way.»

«These five states have an opportunity to be selective and provide new high - quality public charter school choices for students and parents.»

In this Best of Dropout Nation, Editor RiShawn Biddle points to the economic reasons why we must commit to providing all children with strong, comprehensive, college prep curricula and nurturing kids through high expectations (along with improving teacher and school leader quality, and expanding school choice and Parent Power).

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

«The department's goal is to approve high - quality charter schools that provide families with additional choices in the education of their children,» Michael Yaple, the Education Department's chief spokesman, said yesterday.

A unified enrollment system would streamline the school choice process for families, provide more equitable access to quality schools and increase the information available to families as they make choices about schools.

«We're encouraged that independent observers of public education share our support for legislative and school board candidates across California who support parental choice and who are working to provide high quality education to all children,» said Gary Borden, Executive Director of CCSA Advocates.

We are committed to producing the highest quality reports on CSR models; widely disseminating these reports; and providing technical assistance to help states, districts, and schools translate the reports» findings into informed choices about school improvement.

The mission of the Office of K - 12 School Choice is to support quality public and private educational choice programs by providing information and assistance to promote successful outcomes for students, families, institutions and communChoice is to support quality public and private educational choice programs by providing information and assistance to promote successful outcomes for students, families, institutions and communchoice programs by providing information and assistance to promote successful outcomes for students, families, institutions and communities.

By providing students with choices to meet their interests within the context of high - quality learning, they said, schools are encouraging creativity and increasing students» awareness of various career opportunities.

This School Choice week, I salute the schools — charter and traditional — that are providing high - quality choices in our state.

Discussion of school choice in Louisiana, and the opportunities and challenges associated with providing quality education options to families.

Lee is the daughter of a charter school principal, a product of choice as a charter school student, and now is an innovative charter teacher who provides her students with the same high quality education she had as a child.

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).

MSA developed the National Institute of Magnet School Leadership (NIMSL) to provide technical assistance to schools and districts across the nation to ensure they are equipped to provide high - quality instructional programs that promote choice, equity, diversity, and academic excellence for all students.

«In an increasingly complex school choice environment, parents, families, students, and local communities can be assured of the quality of education that is provided in each certified magnet school.»

Proponents of vouchers and other forms of choice argue that providing choice to students and their families opens up the education market to competition and innovation, improving the quality of education in all schools.

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«This new report demonstrates that the charter school movement has provided children in Oakland with an unparalleled choice to receive the high quality education they deserve,» said CCSA President and CEO Jed Wallace.

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As supporters of public school choice policies that provide students — regardless of zip code — with the great teachers and quality schools that they need to succeed, we are proud to celebrate National School Choice Weekschool choice policies that provide students — regardless of zip code — with the great teachers and quality schools that they need to succeed, we are proud to celebrate National School Choice Weekchoice policies that provide students — regardless of zip code — with the great teachers and quality schools that they need to succeed, we are proud to celebrate National School Choice WeekSchool Choice WeekChoice Week 2017.

Now, in this age of school choice when there is more competition for students and quality staff, it is imperative that we take some lessons from the business world about how to provide good customer service and apply those best practices to our schools.

This bill clearly demonstrates that legislators» «school choice» agenda is about providing subsidies to wealthy families that send their kids to private schools and NOT about ensuring that all students, including poor children, have access to a quality education.

Because there's no one school that's going to be «good» for every student or family, we've provided this tool to help parents make an active choice based on whether a school is high quality, and also whether it is a good fit for their child and family.

8:30 am New Orleans Community Leaders Breakfast Discussion of school choice in Louisiana, and the opportunities and challenges associated with providing quality education options to families.

Contrary to the rhetoric surrounding this bill, it won't provide parents with high quality school choices.

Charter public schools are working for families by providing high - quality school choices and improving the life trajectories of mostly low - income, minority students who before charter schools had no choice in the public school system.

The steps described in this report - such as creating data systems, providing high - quality mentoring to new principals, and assigning district staff members to work closely with school leaders - involve costs and, just as often, tough choices for districts, especially when budgets are tight.

We work in partnership with charter schools and the community to support, promote, and advocate for high quality charter schools that provide educational choice to families statewide.

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