Sentences with phrase «school choice policies aimed»

School choice policies aim to break the link between where children live and where they go to school.

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School choice reforms, which comprise a broad category of policies aimed at improving public education through the introduction of market forces that may stimulate customer choice and competition between schools, have grown particularly popular since the 1990s.

Whatever the inadequacies of the engagement efforts, shouldn't we focus our criticism first and foremost on those elected officials, union leaders, and activists who were pursuing a strategy of deception and vitriol — who woke up every day seeking to thwart positive change for kids, seeking to prevent the expansion of schools that were getting outsized success for children, seeking to undermine policies designed to increase equitable access to the district's better schools, seeking to gum up efforts to empower parents with choice, and seeking to thwart all efforts aimed at fostering an honest conversation about which educators were truly superlative and which were badly underserving children?

My preference in terms of policies that aim to produce more racially and economically diverse schools is versions of school choice that are modified for that purpose.

This new research aims to help policymakers and the public better understand military families» perspectives on school choice policies, the military profession and more.

This 2017 survey of 1,200 active - duty military servicemembers, veterans and their spouses aims to help policymakers and the public better understand this important population's perspectives on school choice policies, the military profession and more.

The first days of the charter movement might serve as the starting point of confrontation but the issues today include a variety of policies aimed at shaking up the status quo such as teacher evaluations, school choice, parent rights and interventions of struggling schools.

A better understanding of D.C. school reform, which was long heralded by the Obama administration as a national model, matters even more now that Donald Trump's administration aims to expand school choice policies across the country — likely beginning with the nation's capital.

An important school choice ruling, as a Florida appellate court has tossed an 8 - year - old lawsuit taking aim at 20 years of state education policy.

Calling school choice the best route out of poverty, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took aim at New York City's new mayor on Wednesday for his cooler stance toward public charter schools and warned that Republicans may hold congressional hearings on the education policies of Democrat Bill de Blasio's administration.