Whereas, All students should have an equal opportunity
for public school choices offered without discrimination on the basis of race, gender, socioeconomic status, or disability.
We advocate for
quality public school choices, fair treatment and equal resources for charter public schools, and the advancement and growth of successful charter schools.
Creating meaningful
public school choice options for parents by expanding successful charter and other new schools, while improving or closing down those that fail.
Finally, charters and other
public school choice policies — strengthened in 35 states — continue to empower parents to seek out the best educational opportunities for their children.
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.
And they should facilitate a
healthy public school choice and parent information system to give parents options when government agencies fail to improve or close ineffective schools.
It also raises questions about
whether public school choice, as presently constructed, can have anywhere near the impact its supporters have long hoped.
This approach of using data from different sources allows for a focus on closing achievement gaps without narrowing the number of students who qualify for supplemental educational services or
public school choice priority.
The widespread adoption of
public school choice coupled with the existence of vibrant alternatives to traditional public schools enabled lawmakers to lay the groundwork for vouchers.
Families That Can advocates for
quality public school choices, equitable treatment and resources for charter public schools, and the advancement and growth of successful charter schools.
Various polls show that the public
supports public school choice and charter schools by about a two - thirds majority, although fewer than half approve of vouchers.
If the school does not make adequate yearly progress for three consecutive years, the school remains in school improvement and the district must continue to
offer public school choice to all students.
Parents across the country are taking advantage
of public school choice, but their experiences vary greatly from city to city.
Michael DeArmond is interviewed about CRPE's new report, How Parents Experience
Public School Choice in this Salt Lake City Deseret News article.
In October 2007, the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute released a research report
on public school choice and parental involvement, Fixing the Milwaukee Public School: The Limits of Parent - Driven Reform.
As a board member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she authored the controversial
Public School Choice Resolution, which created an annual process to identify and address the lowest performing schools in LAUSD, as well as the Teacher Effectiveness resolution to ensure that all students have access to an excellent teacher.
These unusual events and policies included the great recession,
expanded public school choice programs in the Hartford region, and assorted neoliberal education reforms.
Today Aspire Public Schools submitted its application to operate a new school in South Los Angeles
under Public School Choice (PSC), the Los Angeles Unified School District's unprecedented initiative to reform the operation of new schools and turn around the lowest performing schools in the district.
For over five years, DCSRN has provided free information, resources and support throughout the DC
public school choice application process to DC families like Nahomie Mwitaba with her daughter Anaya.
Portfolio district reform meets school turnaround Early implementation findings from the Los Angeles Public School Choice Initiative
All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools through
Public School Choice by Richard D. Kahlenberg Brookings Institution, 2000, $ 29.95; 379 pages.
Since joining the Policy and Thought Leadership team in 2013, Kelly has worked on a variety of issues
including public school choice, private school choice, city - level reform efforts, and policies impacting disrupted youth, in particular homeless youth.
These programs and schools
provide public school choice for families unable to move, buy a home, or pay tuition to better their child's education.
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