Sentences with phrase «provide school choice opportunities»

Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) has introduced legislation that will provide school choice opportunities for Native American students.

Legislation Introduced To Provide Educational Options For Native American Students March 17, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Sen. John McCain (R - AZ) has introduced legislation that will provide school choice opportunities for Native American students.

This is strong legislation that will provide school choice opportunities to more students and it is also in line with what a majority of Mississippians want according to recent polling.

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Ultimately, children and young people will go on to make their own decisions about what they eat, but as long as schools offer students the opportunity to think, discuss and debate the issues as well as to cook and eat good vegetarian food, a weekly meat free day provides them with the knowledge and experience with which to make informed, responsible and compassionate choices.

Ravitch has been a critic of education policies championed by Cuomo, including the expansion and protection of charter schools, which the governor says provides choice and opportunity to students in low - income areas.

Green Schools Energy Curriculum — What opportunities do school buildings themselves provide for helping students develop a scientific foundation for making choices about energy resources and their use?

We should be encouraging school choice and encouraging schools to provide students with opportunities to improve their education rather than forcing students to accept sub-standard options.

This new session, linked to the Summer school of adult respiratory medicine, provides a unique opportunity to test your applied knowledge in adult respiratory medicine against 30 high - quality, case - based multiple - choice questions, selected from the question pool of the ERS HERMES European examination in adult respiratory medicine.

«Unless we are willing to provide more flexibility and choice in the last two years of high school, and more opportunities for students to pursue program options that link work and learning, we will continue to lose far too many young people along the path to graduation,» he says.

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).

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.&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 for their children.»

It provides a valuable opportunity for the sector to engage directly with young people, employers, schools and colleges to ensure they have the choices and opportunities to fulfil their career potential.»

While the first year of doctoral studies can be difficult, orientation provides an opportunity for students to learn more about conducting education research at Harvard and the various opportunities around campus, to meet faculty and administrators, and to be reassured that they had made the right choice to come to the Ed School.

And so school choice advocates are watching the Douglas County case closely, hopeful that the Colorado court will either provide a salutary precedent for similar cases in other states or rule against the district and give the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to extend the logic of Trinity and rule all Blaine Amendments unconstitutional.

While the first year of doctoral studies can be overwhelming, orientation provided an opportunity for students to learn more about conducting education research at Harvard and the various opportunities around campus, to meet faculty and administrators, and to be reassured that they had made the right choice to come to the Ed School.

By comparing students who won the opportunity to attend a school of choice to applicants who missed out, scholars have provided experimental evidence roughly akin to that generated by the randomized clinical trials used in medical research.

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.

Discussions began in late 2011 about the opportunity for the school to provide students with a BYO network which would only provide access to the Internet, and given the school's choice of Google Apps deployment, that would be all that was needed.

Head of the School of Education at Curtin University, Lina Pellicone, explains that the new Master of Education degree provides an opportunity for qualified teachers practicing in a range of Educational contexts to enhance their pedagogical and theoretical knowledge and expertise, and to develop some specialized knowledge in an area of choice.

This report, for the first time ever, provides a state - by - state breakdown of the key elements a policymaker needs in order to understand the legal environment for school choice in any given state — and to craft appropriate legislation to expand educational opportunity.

This study of Washington, DC's, Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP) provides the first experimental evidence on the effect of a publicly funded private school choice program on college enrollment.

Title I portability proposals should incorporate language similar to that included in the law authorizing the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to children from low - income families living in the nation's capital to attend a private school of choice.

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.

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.

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.

Every school choice program should provide those opportunities.

«We are incredibly pleased to see the results of this study by Dr. Matt Chingos of the Urban Institute, as it confirms what we have known to be true for years: private school choice programs provide families, especially disadvantaged families, greater opportunities to achieve academic success.

In an area where the majority of pupils come from ethnic minority backgrounds, the school will provide 750 students with the opportunity to excel academically, and gain skills and experiences needed to make informed choices about their future.

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.

The plan vastly expands school choice opportunities in PA by creating an Opportunity Scholarship Program, which would provide tuition assistance for eligible students to attend a public or non-public school of their choice.

Determined to break the intergenerational struggle of illiteracy and limited possibilities, Connie made the choice to remove her grandchildren from a school that simply wasn't performing to one that provided opportunity, and happened to be charter.

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

«Private school choice programs are providing children across the country with access to a world - class education and the opportunity to succeed throughout their lives,» said Betsy DeVos, chairman of the American Federation for Children.

«As public schools, charter schools are providing important new choices to parents and students seeking improved learning opportunities.

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.

«But in order to ensure another leg of the school choice stool is complete and to continue ensuring working families have even more options — regardless of their income or zip code — we need to enact Senate Bill 1 and provide opportunity scholarships to our families now.

REACH remains committed to pursuing passage of Senate Bill 1, which provides opportunity scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice.

U.S. Senate Committee Passes Bill To Offer School Choice To Native American Students September 8, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approved legislation on Wednesday that would provide educational choice opportunities to Native American stuChoice To Native American Students September 8, 2016 by Brett Kittredge The United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approved legislation on Wednesday that would provide educational choice opportunities to Native American stuchoice opportunities to Native American students.

The International Success Of School Choice March 7, 2016 Across the nation, charter schools are providing much needed and innovative opportunities for children.

By providing highly accountable charter schools with access to inspiring facilities and affordable capital financing, CSDC is creating hope and opportunity for families and in communities where more school choice options are most vitally needed, including $ 50 million in new support for 13 schools in just this past year.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

I want to continue to do this work by founding my own school where we will provide children of all backgrounds with the opportunity to one day graduate from the college of their choice.»

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in U.S. education.

She provides thought leadership and oversight to Public Impact's work on teacher and leader policy, organizational change, parental choice of schools, and emerging opportunities for dramatic improvement in pre — K to grade 12 education.

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.

Provide student and families with choices and meaningful opportunities to improve their school experiences.

Q: On some specific legislation, the Opportunity Scholarship Act would provide vouchers for low - income students to attend schools of their choice, public or private.

Accountability should be enforced where the necessary resources are provided and the tools used to measure success or failure are well developed, appropriate to the task, and used to inform instructional decisions.School Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabSchool Choice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabChoice School choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabSchool choice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabchoice is appropriate within the public school system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disabschool system as long as equal opportunity and access are ensured without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability.