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If such alternatives do not exist where you live then this knowledge can support you in promoting or standing behind school change and school choice efforts as they arise.

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This may be why he all but ignores evidence, such as recent legislative efforts to guarantee parental religious liberty through parochial school aid or school choice proposals, that strengthens his thesis.

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

Both fans and critics of San Diego's closely watched school improvement efforts are applauding the choice of Carl A. Cohn, a former superintendent of the Long Beach, Calif., schools, as the system's next leader.

Today's advocates for better schools are insurgent groups that challenge the establishment by encouraging parents to engage actively in K - 12 reform efforts, demanding major changes in school choice and teacher policies, as well as school governance.

As a new Administration takes shape in Washington, with an education leader who has long been an advocate of parental choice, the charter school movement needs to redouble its efforts to turn happy parents into active warriors for charter schools and school choice.

At the same time, they're wrong to imagine that changing policies regarding teacher evaluation, school turnarounds, or school choice will deliver as hoped, absent efforts to help school officials to think differently and then provide the support they need to tackle rules, regulations, and contracts in new ways.

Given the widespread existence of choice and competition in K - 12 education, it is demonstrably wrong to suppose, as Forum contributor Frederick M. Hess does («The Work Ahead «-RRB-, that «Efforts to cultivate competition may thus foster a culture of schooling that is alien to our educational heritage and may create an incentive structure that distorts educational priorities.»

The cool response to the transfer option in cities as different as Chicago and Portland suggests that, whatever choices are offered, many parents would rather see money and effort directed toward improving their neighborhood school.

Reform efforts such as school choice, charter schools, reconstituting schools, and reducing class size all rest on the belief that changes in structure or governance will result in higher student achievement.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Federal involvement also carries political risks for private school choice, as the Obama administration learned through its efforts to promote Common Core standards and more robust teacher evaluation systems.

Denver serves as an example that robust public school choice systems can serve as one several key catalysts in urban revitalization and redevelopment efforts.

Through efforts such as the «Newark Enrolls» universal enrollment system and the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, Newark Public Schools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sSchools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sschools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their schoolsschools.

As part of School Choice week and as part of their ongoing efforts to push back on pro-voucher messaging, NCPE has assembled a set of anti - voucher / pro-public school resources that you can usAs part of School Choice week and as part of their ongoing efforts to push back on pro-voucher messaging, NCPE has assembled a set of anti - voucher / pro-public school resources that you caSchool Choice week and as part of their ongoing efforts to push back on pro-voucher messaging, NCPE has assembled a set of anti - voucher / pro-public school resources that you can usas part of their ongoing efforts to push back on pro-voucher messaging, NCPE has assembled a set of anti - voucher / pro-public school resources that you caschool resources that you can use:

In a generally well - meaning effort to impose «accountability,» some policymakers have attempted to regulate school - choice programs as they regulate district schools, including by mandating state tests.

We oppose diverting public funds to private and parochial schools through vouchers or similar efforts such as school choice.

While more than 13 schools have either launched or expanded school voucher and tax credit programs in the past two years, efforts by National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers affiliates to shut them down, either by voter referendums (as in Florida) or through lawsuits, are reminders of the challenges to expanding choice that remain.

In our effort to better understand the logic behind these parents» school choices, as well as the impact of these urban demographic changes on public schools, we conducted in - depth interviews with dozens of parents participating in a kindergarten lottery in one of the increasingly white community school districts in New York City.

We thank the House — especially Representative Tom Quigley — for their leadership on school choice issues, and look forward to working with the Chamber as the legislature moves forward with efforts to provide Pennsylvanian's with more educational options than they have ever had before.»

As voucher school advocates in Wisconsin celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Milwaukee school choice program this week, an effort to pass a school accountability bill appears to be dead in the water.

«To support families to play age - appropriate roles, we work alongside high schools throughout the District to guide them in their efforts to create programming that engages families to be the «coach» their child needs as they make lifelong college and career choices,» he said.

The claim that charter schools achieve superior test results as a result of effort, choice, accountability, educational program, governance structure, or some other reason, is frequently cited by charter school lobbyists at the legislature and the CT State Department of Education.

Before leading the startup effort at MCPSA, North worked for the education team at Volunteers of America of Minnesota, as a school resource center director at the University of Minnesota, and in the Minnesota Department of Education's Office of Choice and Innovation.

«Our goal was to elect as many school choice supporters as possible, so we focused on races we thought would be close, where our efforts would make a difference,» he says.

As I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve succesAs I have noted, stronger standards alone aren't the only reason why student achievement has improved within this period; at the same time, the higher expectations for student success fostered by the standards (along with the accountability measures put in place by the No Child Left Behind Act, the expansion of school choice, reform efforts by districts such as New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve succesas New York City, and efforts by organizations such as the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve succesas the College Board and the National Science and Math Initiative to get more poor and minority students to take Advanced Placement and other college prep courses), has helped more students achieve success.

Centrist and progressive Democrat reformers have already spent the past two decades dealing with challenges to their thinking and efforts from both traditionalists within their ideological circles and from conservative reform allies, especially on matters such as school choice.

Choices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, and explores civic choices — the decisions people make as citizens in a demChoices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957, and explores civic choices — the decisions people make as citizens in a demchoices — the decisions people make as citizens in a democracy.

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.

So no one should be surprised that the AFT's Big Apple local, the United Federation of Teachers, has allegedly been caught engaging in such activity as part of its effort against moves by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his school reform allies to expand school choice and transform the Empire State's public education systems.

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Bobby Jindal's Push for Choice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cChoice: While Dropout Nation has devoted plenty of space to reform efforts in other states, it hasn't taken as much notice as it should about what is happening in Louisiana outside of the Recovery School District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cSchool District effort in New Orleans, which has been the epicenter of the expansion of charter schools and school cschool choicechoice.

Many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and their strategists, have embraced so - called «school choice» as part of their rebranding efforts, to appear more caring... This new effort even has a warm and fuzzy name: the Growth and Opportunity Project.

Apparently, Hess ignores the decade of research on other issues — from the expansion of school choice, to teacher quality reform efforts, to even the work on the academic prospects of high - achieving students being conducted by Fordham and other outfits — as well as the focus of state and federal policymaking on such matters as bullying and using schools to combat childhood obesity.

That is what corporate school reformers have attempted to do — with efforts to expand school choice, elevate the importance of education technology, and use test scores to drive policy as well as the evaluation of students, schools and teachers.

Bennett said Einstein would be listed as choice on RSD's centralized OneApp in an effort to retain more students at the school they will likely takeover.

As the winner of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, Uncommon Schools will receive $ 250,000 to support low - income student college - readiness efforts of its choice, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visitAs the winner of The Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools, Uncommon Schools will receive $ 250,000 to support low - income student college - readiness efforts of its choice, such as scholarships, speaker series or campus visitas scholarships, speaker series or campus visits.

This doesn't mean that Wake County's efforts to go back to zoned schools makes sense; as discussed on last week on Dropout Nation, restricting school choice is antithetical to ensuring that education is the civil right it is supposed to be.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

Although corporate education reformers love to talk about providing students with «school choice,» this latest effort to put another Achievement First, Inc. school in the North - end would mean that the children of Clark any remaining public school children would be provided «choice,» as long as their «choice» was a charter school.

PAA proposes its «LSC model,» a form of elected parent - majority school governance, as an antidote to recent efforts of corporate school reformers to brand parent triggers, school choice, vouchers and other attacks on public education as «parental empowerment.»

During her tenure as a superintendent, she led the school district through many initiatives that led to increased graduation rates, additional school choice options, increasing public / private partnerships and initiating efforts that supported struggling male students of color.

Same for the District of Columbia, where reform efforts, including the overhaul of the traditional district as well as the expansion of school choice, has also yielded fruit.

(Va.) Districts and charter schools should begin collaborating now on issues such as accountability and turnaround efforts, especially as school choice expansion quickly comes closer to becoming a reality, according to new guidance.

Mr. Robbie Evans, the vice president of the board that governs the Choice Foundation, a three - school charter network in New Orleans, recently urged the Lusher Charter School teachers to vote against their fellow teachers» efforts to unionize, describing the union as «an impediment to charter schools» progress.&school charter network in New Orleans, recently urged the Lusher Charter School teachers to vote against their fellow teachers» efforts to unionize, describing the union as «an impediment to charter schools» progress.&School teachers to vote against their fellow teachers» efforts to unionize, describing the union as «an impediment to charter schools» progress.»

Any efforts to break up North Carolina school districts would likely lead to lawsuits and challenges such as higher costs and fewer school choices, state education officials warned Tuesday.

The 2013 - 16 Strategic Plan for Catholic Schools and School Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more affoSchools and School Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more afforSchool Choice imagines a specific future for the Archdiocese, including efforts to improve curriculum and the leadership quality within teachers and schools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more affoschools, as well as raise funding to make the overall school system both higher quality and more afforschool system both higher quality and more affordable.

Our efforts come into the spotlight as we once again celebrate National School Choice Week; Jan. 22 - 28.