His critique of traditional education helped inspire school staff there to create Learning Unlimited, Indiana's first alternative
public school of choice in 1974.
With more than 1100 schools and 500,000 students, California sets the pace
for public schools of choice for the nation, with CCSA as a foundational force.
«We support charter schools
as public schools of choice and incubators of innovation,» Woolums said, adding that «local boards, as charter authorizers, are essential to ensuring both fiscal and student performance accountability.»
Not having gifted education in a school district also often results in parents of gifted children removing them from those schools for other options:
local public schools of choice, charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, parochial schools, and home schooling.
Engaged charter parents will be delivering hundreds of handwritten letters from charter parents across the state, asking lawmakers to enact a fair and comprehensive funding formula that
includes public schools of choice, including charters.
The report by the National Center for Education Statistics says the share of enrollment for
public schools of choice grew from 11 percent to 15 percent of all students in grades 1 - 12 from 1993 to 2003.
The program allows businesses to receive an 85 percent tax credit on contributions to nonprofit scholarship organizations that fund low - and middle - income families attending the private school, home school, or out - of -
district public school of their choice.
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.
He argued that teachers should be granted charters to
run public schools of choice, free from the regulations that frustrate teachers, but subject to strict accountability requirements.
These independently
operated public schools of choice got a nice reputational boost from the latest U.S. News list of best public high schools — with nine of the top ten schools and sixty out of the top hundred fitting into that category.
«I
believe public schools of choice will enhance that important contract that needs to be strengthened between parent and child in the engagement of the educational future of the child.
Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report «showing» that charter schools —
autonomous public schools of choice — do not work as well as the traditional district public schools.
Charter schools are tuition - free
public schools of choice financed through local, state, and federal funds which are operated independently of the local school boards.
Currently serving 2.3 million students in 43 states and Washington, DC, charter schools are
public schools of choice granted varying degrees of autonomy from state laws in exchange for accountability for meeting student performance goals.
Since 1991, 40 states have enacted laws allowing for the creation of charter schools —
independent public schools of choice that are freed from many regulations but accountable for their results.
In the Assembly, where Democrats hold the majority, the one - house budget does not include Cuomo's education tax credit, which would allow donors to give money to the private or
public school of their choice and receive nearly full credit for the donation on their state taxes.
This would include funding for a pilot private - school voucher program, new money for charter schools, and additional money for Title I that would be directed to follow students to
the public school of their choice.
Andrew Ujifusa and Alyson Klein of Ed Week note that the plan calls for the creation of a new $ 1 billion program that will allow students to take federal, state, and local education dollars to
the public school of their choice.
In the United States, the school - choice debate centers on whether parents should have the right to send their children to
the public school of their choice rather...
One of these was a post-secondary enrollment option permitting eleventh and twelfth graders to take college courses (1985); another was open enrolment, which enabled children to attend
any public school of their choice in Minnesota (1987 — 8).
But the federal government could allow states to enact funding systems where federal, state, and local dollars follow students to
the public schools of their choice.
As the high - profile Knowledge Is Power Program network of schools continues to expand, KIPP leaders are taking a close look at student attrition amid arguments from critics that the loss of students at some of
those public schools of choice is alarmingly high.
From that came a proposal for
a public school of choice — open to all students in the district — focused on this kind of applied learning.
Independent
public schools of choice could turn out to be as disruptive to traditional education systems as those crummy little Sony radios turned out to be to the vacuum - tube behemoths and as Honda was to Detroit.
Charter schools are
public schools of choice that are privately managed under a renewable performance contract that exempts them from many of the regulations that apply to other public schools.
It would give states the option of making Title I funds for low - income children «portable» so the funds follow children to
the public schools of their choice.
That legislation would have redirected federal funding to millions of poor children, which they could use to attend private or
public schools of their choice.
This belief has led to the growth of charter schools —
public schools of choice.
Nine of the rankings top 10 schools are charter schools and magnet schools and ultimately
these public schools of choice comprise 60 percent of the rankings top 100 schools.
Finally, in discussing the OSP's impact on expanding school choice for parents, Professor Wolf relates that approximately 81 percent of parents placed their child in a private or
public school of choice three years after winning the scholarship lottery, as did 46 percent of those who lost the lottery.