Sentences with phrase «public schools of choice granted»

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.

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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.

In October 2002, the federal Department of Education distributed nearly $ 24 million in grants to Arkansas, Florida, Minnesota, and districts in six other states to expand their public school choice programs.

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.

Although certain forms of school choice (tax credits, some voucher programs) abjure state academic standards and tests, others (such as charter schools and public school choice) normally take them for granted.

He ignores the wide body of research suggesting that school - choice policies improve public schools by forcing them to compete for students that they used to take for granted.

2004 — CEI - PEA launched an initiative to develop public school choice programs in five major cities across the United States through a multi-year grant from the United States Department of Education.

And very often, these opportunities are most readily available within public schools of choice, specifically charter schools, which are granted increased flexibility in exchange for increased accountability.

«Charter schools are independent public schools of choice that, in many states, are granted broad flexibility from regulatory requirements in exchange for accountability,» the authors wrote.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the wellbeing of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the Administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

The Republican presidential nominee and founder of Trump University accused Democrats of trapping black and Hispanic youth in failing public schools and offered the postern door of school choice through a proposed block grant, voucher - like program in which per pupil expenditures would follow students to the school of their parents» liking.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the well - being of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

In 2016, $ 121 billion in federal Pell Grants and new student loans followed 11 million college students to accredited public, private or religious schools of their choice, whether Notre Dame, Yeshiva, the University of Tennessee or Nashville's auto diesel college.

Grant Callen, president of Empower Mississippi, a nonprofit dedicated to «school choice» options, including vouchers and charter schools, says an experience like Kast's illustrates a range of failures on the part of public schools.

Groups representing school officials are pleased that the bill would repeal the existing set of corrective actions (public school choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing scschool officials are pleased that the bill would repeal the existing set of corrective actions (public school choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing scschool choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing scSchool Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing schools.

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o Improve accountability by allowing public school choice for parents of students in the five worst performing school districts and adopt a «money follows the child» funding system with grants based on a child's needs.

The proposed FOCUS grants would provide supplemental awards to school districts that agree to adopt weighted student funding combined with open enrollment systems that allow Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice.

States would have to set aside 3 percent of their Title I funds for a competitive - grant program that would allow districts to offer public school choice or free tutoring.

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