Sentences with phrase «requiring more school choice»

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I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

The USDA is now requiring schools to offer more than one choice in fat content for milk, with an emphasis on lowfat and nonfat milk.

Requiring central office units to cost out their services (as was previously attempted) and develop business plans while giving schools more choice over what they purchase could create greater efficiency on both sides.

Rick's first point — essentially, that I am being hypocritical in opposing testing for choice schools but not for traditional public schools — requires a more complicated response.

Understanding the effect of private school choice on real - world success beyond test scores requires data on outcomes like college enrollment and graduation, and thanks to three recent Urban Institute studies, we know more about this than we did a year ago.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

And a requirement that choice schools take any one of a long list of standardized tests is much more desirable than requiring the state test.

Making school choice work requires bureaucratic policy solutions, often technical ones, to make the market for schooling more fair and responsive.

Taken together this picture of the choice process requires us to consider whether improvements in the traditional modes of providing information to parents (e.g. printed choice guides, websites) alone can substantively lead to more informed parents and by extension, expansion of parents» choice sets that include more diverse schools.

... so there's not this choice aspect that just kind of requires certain placement in certain schools That's how you leverage policy to ensure you see more

In Florida's more lightly regulated program that requires schools to administer a standardized test of their choice, around 60 % of the private schools are willing to participate.

Two or more years of «in need of improvement» status requires schools to give parents the choice of transferring their children to another school.

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.

Making greater strides in academic achievement will require more rigorous research into best practices, dedicated funding for school improvement, and a strong commitment to make the tough choices that are best for students.

And third, ESSA provides more flexibility at the local level for school improvement, requiring evidence - based strategies rather than the specific interventions of private tutoring and school choice that were mandatory for all struggling schools under the NCLB's school improvement grants program.3

Charter school seats are concentrated near downtown while more impoverished neighborhoods with more school aged children have fewer schools — requiring those seeking choice to travel significant distances in a city of 140 square miles.

To the contrary, those about to embark upon that journey confront: (1) the daunting cost of law school; (2) an average of $ 120K debt for attending; (3) a job market where, nationally, close to half of all graduates do not have Bar - required employment nine months after graduation; (4) a widespread market perception that law school graduates — even those from elite schools — lack «practice ready» skills; (5) cut - backs in hiring newly minted lawyers — even among many stalwart law firms; (6) an erosion of mentorship due in part to pressure on senior lawyers to «produce» more (7) the unlikelihood of making (equity) partner; (8) instability of law firms; (9) global competition; (10) technology companies creating products that replace services; and (11) a blizzard of negative press trumpeting the glum prospects for the profession; and (12) alternative career choices — finance, accounting, technology, etc. — that portend greener pastures and do not require the same time and financial commitment to prepare for entry.

«The growth in healthcare is requiring more professionals who know how to run the day - to - day operations of a medical office, making this a great career choice — especially for someone who does not want to spend a long time in school.»

Admissions requirements for Associate's Degree programs in Medical Assisting in Alaska are usually more stringent, with some requiring a minimum high school GPA for admission into the school of your choice.