Sentences with phrase «school choice reforms»

Yet the detrimental effects are weaker for disadvantaged students, who typically constitute the proposed target of school choice reforms.

So school reformers instead focus on low test scores and high dropout rates as justification for merit pay, school accountability initiatives, and other school choice reforms.

Effects of a Large - Scale School Choice Reform on Student Performance *

On Aug. 30, the Los Angeles Unified School District board made major changes to the Public School Choice reform initiative which the charter school community and a coalition of community groups opposed.

Roberta Benjamin, Los Angeles Superintendent for Aspire Public Schools, says that hasn't always happened seamlessly, but LAUSD's Public School Choice reform initiative was a unique program through which charters and the district worked together.

As we honor National School Choice week beginning Sunday, one fact stands out: 2012 marks the year when there can be no turning back in school choice reforms.

Indeed, in every «Blaine» state in which the legislature attempts school choice reform through statute, lawyers will have to persuade their state supreme court to interpret these old provisions in a manner that respects the legislative and popular will.

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is a long - time school choice proponent, and the administration has signaled it is likely to pursue some big - ticket school choice reforms.

Understanding why states pass laws favorable to charters and why charter school participation is higher in some areas than others is important if we want to identify locations where school choice reforms are likely to present meaningful alternatives to traditional public schools and where they are likely to remain reforms on the margins.

As to possible explanations for the substantial test - score gains made by Florida students on FCAT and NAEP, Winters notes that studies have shown positive effects for each of the major accountability and school choice reforms introduced during 1998 to 2006 — such as implementing a school voucher program for use by students who have attended failing schools two years in a row and tax credits targeted for low - income students» scholarships.

Paul DiPerna, who leads the SIA project, offers snapshots of the Latino community's views on the direction of American K — 12 education, various school choice reforms and policies, standardized testing, and the Common Core State Standards.

Betsy DeVos's confirmation as education secretary has triggered intense interest over what the Department of Education will do to bolster school choice reforms like charter schools and private school vouchers.

Bryant assailed the state's «educational establishment» for opposing previous school choice reforms and said he wanted expansion of school choice to be his primary legacy.

They maintain that the majority of «currently available ESA literature has been provided by conservative think tanks, whose explicit goal is to advance free - market school choice reform.

School choice reforms continue to gain momentum across the nation precisely because they have been driven from within states.

Diaz cites further school choice reforms and ending red - light cameras as top issues.

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.

EN: How important were your school choice reforms?

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on....

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

The «North Dakota K - 12 & School Choice Survey» project, commissioned by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice and conducted by Braun Research, Inc. (BRI), measures North Dakota registered voters» familiarity and views on a range of K - 12 education topics and school choice reforms.

Asked about the decision to campaign here, Trump spokesman Jason Miller wrote in an email: «Mr. Trump believes that all children deserve the opportunity to receive a first - class education, and his school choice reform proposals will help do just that.

Authors Drew Catt, Jason Bedrick, M.P.P. and Paul DiPerna delve deeper into public opinion on, and in some cases awareness or knowledge of, a range of K — 12 education topics and school choice reforms.

Paul's research interests include surveys and polling on K — 12 education and school choice reforms.

His research and scholarship focus on issues of decentralization related to school choice reforms, as well as the impact of school finance inequities on implementing school reform.

Taking all of this research into consideration, it seems that school choice reforms should be approached with a healthy amount of skepticism as to their stated goals and intended outcomes.

Education tax credits are a more powerful and bipartisan «third way» school choice reform that promises to spread educational freedom across the country.