Sentences with phrase «robust education choices»

* Choice and Competition — This area of reform has been a nationwide battleground for many years and this session will see a revival of a range of serious efforts in Texas to expand robust education choices to meet the needs of students and their parents, with funding following the child.

Second, we should enhance choice and competition and promote the evolution from a «school system» to «a system of schools», with robust education choices for parents and students that meet their needs, and with funding that follows the student.

Not exact matches

«Because consumers could be confused by the new label with its numerous changes, a robust consumer education effort will be needed to ensure that people continue to understand how the revised label can be used to make informed choices and maintain healthful dietary practices.

But let's also assume many states have much more robust parental choice programs than they do now, with vouchers, tax credit scholarships, charter schools, virtual schools, education savings accounts and a-la-carte course offerings all on the menu.

In a recent interview, U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pointed to Florida as a «good and growing example of what can happen when you have a robust array of [school] choices.»

This is why movement conservatives not engaged in education discussions are naturally be more - supportive of measures such as the expansion of school choice (because they conform to their views that markets and private actions by families should be the deciding forces in education) than of other reform efforts that seem to involve what they may perceive more - robust federal or state government roles, or involve what they consider to be an abrogation of roles they think should be in the hands of families or local governments.

No matter how robust a federal or state school - choice law, for such policies to work, local leaders — mayors, nonprofits, and education officials — need to have a strategy for implementation.

Even if states remain in the driver's seat, Abe Feuerstein, a professor of education at Bucknell University who opposes the expansion of vouchers, still sees room for DeVos to use her new position to push state lawmakers to adopt robust school - choice laws.

Despite evidence that the complexity of the nation's education crisis requires an array of solutions — including strong curriculum standards and robust consequential accountability, the overhaul of teacher quality, revamp of curriculum and standards, expanding school choice, improving school data systems and giving parents their rightful decision - making roles in education — far too many reformers are busy touting and flacking their one grand solution and dismiss others that, in their minds, don't further their own.

Let's be clear: The need for rigorous, college - preparatory curricula with strong content is as critical an element in reforming American public education as advancing standards and accountability, overhauling teacher quality, expanding school choice, bolstering Parent Power, improving school leadership and building robust data systems.

Indiana has one of the most robust school choice systems in the country and its education system is booming.

The aftereffect of the approval of a robust School Choice budget could be beneficial for parents and families trying to find better education options, but detrimental to school districts trying to rebuild and improve.