Sentences with phrase «public school choices lead»

Would the proliferation of public school choices lead to increased achievement?

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(Reuters)- A U.S. judge blocked Obama administration guidance that transgender public school students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by a group of 13 states led by Texas.

Charter critics point to reports showing differences in the demographic characteristics of charter school students and their counterparts in traditional public schools as evidence that choice leads to segregation.

But Wisconsin state senator Russ Decker, a leading opponent of vouchers, has argued that the program gives money to children who would attend private schools anyway and declared, «You've got a lot of additional money going into the choice program that we could better use funding public education statewide.»

The answer to the mayor's question turned out to be «mayoral academies,» highly autonomous, socioeconomically diverse, regional public schools of choice governed by mayor - led boards.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»

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Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (EdSchool's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

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.

Kids are assigned to have the choice of attending a public school, and researchers test whether that choice leads to better results (not whether the schools they could attend are better than the schools they could leave).

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.

Lead author of Rhetoric vs. Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools, he has published in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Behavioral Science and Policy, Statistics and Public Policy, the Journal of Labor Economics, Economics of Education Review, Education Finance and Policy, American Journal of Education, Teachers College Record, Peabody Journal of Education, Education Next, the Handbook of Research on School Choice, and the Encyclopedia of Education Economics and Finance.

«With the spotlight shone on public school choice this election year, we've seen a stirring up of opinion... and we've also seen expensive, sustained, and coordinated campaigns to discredit charter schools, led by teachers» unions and special interests that feel threatened by families having a choice in public school.»

Whether the measure is graduation rates, improved instructional quality, last year's improvement in the lowest - performing schools targeted for special intervention, a nation - leading new collective - bargaining agreement, the addition of many new high - quality public schools, increased parental choice, or a material increase in the proportion of effective teachers, the arrow is pointed decidedly up in Newark.

He notes that, although few studies have examined the impact of choice on public school students, most every finding to date suggests that vouchers, rather than adversely affecting students who are «left behind» in public schools, actually lead to gains for public and private school students.

Higher family income leads to greater choice in both public and private schools.

And the president's proposal to allow $ 1 billion in federal funds to follow poor children to the public schools of their choice — while thin on details — sounds a lot like a proposal that failed to pass the GOP - led Senate in 2015.

It was Gwen Samuel, a mother from Connecticut bereft of shiny public policy credentials, who led the passage of the nation's second Parent Trigger law and has spurred the current efforts at reforming teacher quality and expanding school choice happening in the Nutmeg State.

His lifetime of commitment to at - risk youth and public education makes him the only choice to lead the state's school system.

Based on our research and our own understanding as New York City public school parents, we encourage the DOE to shift its focus away from highly competitive, market - based school choice policies, such as charter schools, which consistently lead to greater racial segregation and a winner - take - all mentality.

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This week, our CEO Terry was invited to lead a discussion about the future of school choice and public education in the state of Idaho as part of the NNU / KBOI670 Business Breakfast.

But as North Carolina faces a year in which some predict tax cuts will lead to inadequate state revenues that leave lawmakers with little choice but to rob Peter to pay Paul, what can we expect for our public schools?

The first major push to let American families send their children to schools of their choice using public funds was led by Catholics seeking to escape discriminatory public schools.

Often, DeVos will skirt the main point of a query and lead the conversation to her favorite education topic, giving parents choices other than their neighborhood traditional public school.

Edelblut's nomination sparked fierce public debate, mirroring the outcry over President Donald Trump's nomination of school choice advocate and wealthy GOP donor Betsy DeVos to lead the federal education department.

Data shows that these state - based innovations emphasizing school choice have led to increased success for New Hampshire public schools as compared to the state under national mandates.

Dr. Howard Fuller, one of the country's leading advocates for public school choice, spoke about the importance of excellent schools at «Parents as Partners,» a major school information fair that ExED co-hosted in Exposition Park in Los Angeles.

School choice and a publicly - supported voucher system would inevitably lead to a mass exodus of students from the public school system, thus endangering the currently competition - free atmosphere that teachers currently School choice and a publicly - supported voucher system would inevitably lead to a mass exodus of students from the public school system, thus endangering the currently competition - free atmosphere that teachers currently school system, thus endangering the currently competition - free atmosphere that teachers currently enjoy.

The vast majority of the evidence we now have shows that school choice can lead to more integration in schools — both public and private.

During her tenure as a superintendent, she led the school district through many initiatives that led to increased graduation rates, additional school choice options, increasing public / private partnerships and initiating efforts that supported struggling male students of color.

MYTH: Because competition leads to improvement, school «choice» options are necessary, and because the private sector can do better what the public has failed to do, the «choice» options must involve privatization.

The results were that «31 of 33 studies find the competitive effects driven by school choice programs led to improvement in public schools» academic performance.»

Going from country to country, it is clear that more competition — whether through public or private school choice measures — leads to higher test scores for public and private schools alike.

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.

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.