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While the rhetoric surrounding DeVos has been heavily targeted at her competence, the main issue seems to be that Democrats generally oppose private school choice programs while Republicans generally do not.

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As numerous cities make energy choices to tackle climate change, so too should municipalities invest in farm - to - hospital and farm - to - school programs that deliver healthier food and strengthen rural communities while emitting fewer greenhouse gases.

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD — A new national survey of school meal program operators reveals that more school cafeterias are utilizing strategies to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and other healthy choices, while expanding student access -LSB-...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2016 - More school cafeterias are using strategies to increase consumption of fruits, vegetables and other healthy choices, while expanding student access to school meals through government programs such as the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP), according to a new national survey of school meal program operators.

Several school leaders said if a private school choice program with strong funding existed in their states, more families who already desire their school would be able to afford tuition — increasing enrollment and resources to serve them while maintaining their Catholic identity.

While district reform collapsed, and claimed the court case on the never - implemented voucher program as collateral, charter parents will ensure that school choice carries on in this Colorado suburban county.

STANFORD — While the recent debate in Washington, D.C. over the Opportunity Scholarship Program, which serves low - income children, has highlighted a sharp political divide in our nation's capital over school choice, outside the beltway special education voucher programs tell a different story.

During her 25 - year career in education, Kristin has worked with a mentoring and financial aid program for NYC high schoolers while founding the School Choice Scholarships Foundation and Bronx Preparatory Charter School.

While Obama was moderately supportive of public - school choice options such as charters, he was hostile toward private - school options such as the D.C. scholarship program.

While school choice does have a history in rural states — since 1869, Vermont has allowed parents to select a nearby school for their student to attend at the expense of their own town through a «tuitioning» program — few states have encouraged the direct creation of rural, publicly funded schools of choice.

While many believe private schools to be «unregulated,» they already follow many regulations, regardless of their participation in a school choice program.

Over time, competent private schools have grown their base of public funding while patently low - grade schools have shrunk or been ushered out of the choice programs.

Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect on the test scores of non-participants, while no empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.

-LSB-...] especially so given that the No Excuses charter model that has become the darling of ed reformers often comes up short at improving later life outcomes, while private school choice programs seem to fare better at improving high school graduation, -LSB-...]

Some 5 percent of US children attended public charter schools in 2013 - 14, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, while less than 1 percent participate in private school choice programs.

A department spokeswoman said the budget blueprint «focuses on ensuring the Department fulfills its core obligations to protect all students, while also expanding school choice options available to parents and eliminating duplicative and ineffective programs.»

While intra / inter-district transfer programs and magnet schools present more choices to families, it is important to consider the following key features adopted from a recent research brief by Kara S. Finnigan and Jennifer Jellison Holme to ensure equal access and equity of participation.

While allowing for a range of NNRs to satisfy the ESA testing requirement provides information about student performance, NNRs do not drive school - level content decisions the way criterion - referenced statewide assessments can, which research suggests can dissuade private school leaders from participating in education choice programs.

That is true, and while we have numerous studies establishing positive competitive effects on district schools from choice programs, few states have choice programs going at a scale to place a large amount of pressure on district enrolments.

While private schools are eager to serve disadvantaged students, private - school leaders participating in school choice programs are being asked to take on difficult - to - educate students for a fraction of the amount that public schools would receive for the same students.

While I would prefer no testing requirements on choice schools, I understand and have defended the need for compromises to pass choice programs.

Of twelve randomized controlled trials — the gold standard of social science research — eleven found that school choice programs improve outcomes for some or all students while only one found no statistically significant difference and none found a negative impact.

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

«While we are extremely disappointed that there was no resolution on a new funding mechanism for the state's education savings account (ESA) program, we are pleased the Nevada Legislature in a bipartisan vote remains supportive of school choice and parental empowerment.

In addition to the non-fiscal benefits attached to educational choice, the program can relieve pressure for district budgets from rising pension costs (for each one million dollars spent on the program, I estimated that the state would save almost half of that amount, while school districts would save almost $ 700,000).

These controlled choice programs create diverse schools while also giving parents a say in where their children attend school.

Another recent reform is carefully designed school choice programs, or controlled choice, which allow parents to choose their child's school while also accounting for socioeconomic diversity.

The available empirical evidence on these private school choice programs makes it clear they positively affect the academic performance of participating students, while doing so at a lower cost than public schools and benefitting public school students, decreasing segregation, and improving civic values and practices.

The Trump - DeVos budget threatens to exacerbate the budgetary challenge states face by cutting at least $ 3.6 billion from ESSA programs and $ 9 billion from the Department of Education overall while making an unprecedented investment in an ambiguous «school choice» program.

While charter schools have become a growing part of the educational landscape in Texas, programs that extend school choice to private schools have not enjoyed similar support.

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.

Given its location in a major metropolitan area, I suggest seeking learning experiences via partnerships with educational programs at one of the many nearby colleges of education while remaining critical of pedagogical choices in their school.

It supports and serves the leaders and teachers of magnet and theme - based schools, while promoting the development of new magnet programs and public schools of choice.

Mississippi Congressmen Gregg Harper, Trent Kelly, and Steven Palazzo all supported this legislation while Rep. Bennie Thompson voted against it.Under this program, low - income students in Washington D.C., usually stuck in failing public schools, can receive scholarships to attend the private school of their choice.

While Rubio's letters may hopefully jog federal investigation, the real solution is to empower parents through school choice programs.

School choice programs effect the flow of some of this money while leaving the rest in place.

Rahm and his cronies ignore and disrespect elected, parent - run local school councils while pushing education privatizers» phony «parent empowerment» programs like school choice and the parent trigger.

While the administration's proposed cuts have been embraced by fiscal conservatives who argue that Education Department programs need to be trimmed or eliminated, some conservatives are also troubled by the administration's proposal to invest new money in school choice, saying that represents an unwelcome expansion of the federal footprint in education.

The proposed expansion of school choice in Wisconsin comes at a time when President Barack Obama and Republicans are promoting charter schools and teacher accountability, while skeptics question whether choice programs have proven to be any more effective than traditional public schools.

While the changes could rope more siblings into the voucher program, school choice proponents have told StateImpact many of the state's private schools are already nearing capacity — and unless the state increases the amount of a scholarship, it's not likely more private schools will open to accept them.

While some states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin and California began embracing the expansion of choice through the passage of charter school laws as well as the launch of voucher programs, it was the move by the Clinton administration during the 1990s to make charters a key part of federal education policy that helped spur states to expand choice in their own states.

Jim Bender, president of School Choice Wisconsin, said while the state's voucher program was ushered in by former Gov. Tommy Thompson, Walker took advantage of the numbers of Republicans in the Legislature to expand the program beyond Milwaukee.

While the city of Milwaukee Charters have made a lot of mistakes, the primary offender of crippling education for our children has been the Parental Choice Program (voucher schools).

The report notes that while larger public high schools offer more program choices than smaller ones, even small public schools do better compared to private high schools in programs for which data is available: Gifted or Honors classes, Advanced Placement, and distance learning.

During approximately this same time period, enrollment in charter schools has grown by 672 percent while enrollment in a private school choice program has grown by 1279 percent.

Bush passed a similar school - choice voucher program in 2001, which Rubio voted for while he served in the Florida House.

While the demand is growing for school choice, parents continue to show overwhelming satisfaction with the program for the seventh straight year, with 95 percent of parents reporting they are happy with their child's academic progress.

Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos are seeking a small cut for special education grants, while they sought to keep traditional Title I aid at $ 14.9 billion, separate from the $ 1 billion choice program they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 bprogram they want under Title I. Funding for the 21st Century Community Schools Program, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 bProgram, which funds after - school and other enrichment activities, would be cut by $ 200 million in the bill, bringing total aid down to $ 1 billion.

While individual tax credits and deductions are a start on the road to school choice for all of America's families, these other programs work better for most families.

She says offering Utah's innovative and internationally lauded Dual Immersion program in all of its elementary schools means students may continue to attend their neighborhood school while having access to a program of choice.