Creating meaningful
public school choice options for parents by expanding successful charter and other new schools, while improving or closing down those that fail.
While
many public school choice options can be considered by states — including open enrollment policies and magnet schools — the most prominent public school choice policy is charter schools.
Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin last week pledged to
make public school choice an option statewide, as well as to expand Milwaukee's private - school - voucher program, in a State of the State address boosting his state as a trailblazer in education reform.
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.
The Budget also would expand the Direct Student Services set - aside in Title I from 3 percent to 5 percent to encourage States to leverage more Title I funds to
support public school choice options, including ensuring that disadvantaged students trapped in low - performing schools have the opportunity to transfer to another, higher - performing school or take advantage of advanced coursework or career preparation classes not available in their regular schools.
Co-published by CSDC, the book recounts the birth of the movement in Minnesota, tracks its transformative expansion across the nation, and looks forward to the fundamental impact this rapidly
growing public school choice option will have on American K - 12 education as the movement embarks on the next twenty years.
We want to be leaders in transparency and accountability in the state — shining a light on our areas of growth so we can continuously improve and offer South Carolina kids what they deserve — only the most
excellent public school choice options.
Wisconsin currently has an Open Enrollment program, the state's
longstanding public school choice option that allows children to attend a school district other than the one in which their family lives.
Leading national voices on this hot topic will debate how school choice is delivering on its promise, how it is not, and what steps can be taken to
improve public school choice options to families and students.
Public school choice options and mandatory supplemental education services for students assigned to low - performing schools.
For example, two states — Arkansas and North Carolina — were granted waivers that allowed them to use test score growth over time as part of their school accountability efforts; the department has also allowed states to provide students in failing schools with additional tutoring services instead of exercising the law's
public school choice option (which allows families to move their kids into better - performing schools in a district).