Not exact matches
Homeschooling may not be the right path for every family for a panoply
of reasons, but just as parents spend a lot
of time contemplating and researching the
public and private
school options available to them, homeschooling should be another reasonable education
choice for families to consider.
(A major
reason for the failure
of «
public school choice» under NCLB is that nobody knew for sure before August or September whether their kids had the right to change
schools that year.)
Since students in Cleveland could choose to attend a private
school, a
public magnet
school, or a charter
school, the Court
reasoned that the existence
of magnet and charter
schools should be considered in assessing whether students have a genuine
choice among secular and religious
schools.
After all, the
reasons for promoting
choice often rest on the fact that
public school systems are strangled by politics, bureaucracy, byzantine contractual rules, and licensing procedures that aggravate a shortage
of quality employees.
In other words, among the new
schools of choice we will see a variation only in degrees
of success; and there is no
reason to expect, it is said, that some will fall below the level
of public schools today.
Parents»
reasons for withdrawing their children from
public schools are one
of the major flashpoints in the
school choice debate.
[The politics
of rationing education is a
reason why districts and other traditionalists also oppose the expansion
of public charter
schools and other forms
of school choice that are helping Black and Latino children attain high quality education; charters fall outside
of the control
of districts and therefore, open the doors
of opportunity for those historically denied great teachers and college - preparatory curricula.]
Although some education reformers who support vouchers can be quick to create a false narrative around the
reasons why, it is true that many
of us, including myself, believe that
school choice should be
public school choice.
«As
public schools lose students via
school choice or for any other
reason, they have a tremendous opportunity to improve the quality
of their
schools.
And with all due respect to Jeff Sessions, there's good
reason for the backlash: The billionaire Amway heiress from Michigan, who long ago made «
school choice» her passion project, is the first education secretary in history to be hostile to the very idea
of public education.
The letter concluded that because the
school choice program is publicly funded, it must meet standards under Title II
of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which states that «no qualified individual with a disability shall, by
reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits
of the services...
of a
public entity.»