Sentences with phrase «still schools of choice»

And let's not forget that charter schools are still schools of choice.

Not exact matches

The good news is there are still lots of good choices for each school.

«We are trying to help them learn to make healthy food choices while still offering them a wide selection of breakfast and lunch items,» said Ruth Jonen, director of food service at Palatine Township High School District 211.

Even with the close of school looming ominously on the horizon, there is still time for parents to make educated choices for summer camps for their children.

Chicago Public Schools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cSchools, where 87 percent of students are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch, already puts strict requirements on the items sold in vending machines — juice and water are the only available beverages, for instance — but Leslie Fowler, the district's executive director of nutrition support services, said students still bristle at the idea of schools controlling their cschools controlling their choices.

Even though I am confident in our choice of school, I still have fears as we embark on this journey.

Gold still remains as a trendy choice, so help your teenagers heading to high school or college this fall by surprising them with a set of chic gold pens?

I was — and remain — a big milk drinker, so even on days that I wasn't making the healthiest choices for myself I was still consuming 1 - 3 of those small cartons of skim milk each day at school.

Wisconsin's fall legislative session will get off to a slow start, with Republicans in control of both the Senate and Assembly still searching for consensus on major issues such as toughening drunken driving laws and imposing new reporting requirements on public and choice schools.

«Even with the use of these funds, school districts still have painful choices,» DiNapoli said in a statement.

But, with so many breakfast options, not to mention the myriad of schools of thought on what's really healthful and what's just plain garbage, many of us still struggle with our breakfast choices.

Sure, there are plenty of Republicans who loudly support empowering parents with school choice, but they are still boosted by a party which expresses vocal disdain for the kinds of government supports on which many of these urban voters depend to keep their families intact.

Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still favor requiring choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components of the high - regulation approach to school choice, such as mandating that schools accept voucher amounts as payment in full, prohibiting schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing schools.

Remember, even though I have included a few classroom - friendly lists of spoken word links, you should still preview all of these videos and make choices depending on the age of your kids and your own school's policies about language and challenging topics.

Rebuilding strong neighborhood schools is certainly part of the solution to the problem, which is that Washington still has too few high - quality school choice options.

Nevertheless, there is still a story to be told, and the essential part of it is that the program that education reformers have tried to promote now for decades — introduce more choices of schools for students, enable competition among schools, open up paths for preparing teachers and administrators outside schools of education, improve measures of student achievement and teacher competence, enable administrators to act on the basis of such measures, and limit the power of teachers unions — has been advanced under the Obama administration, in the judgment of authors Maranto and McShane.

Still, even a modicum of school choice and competition can boost student test scores, especially when combined with a comprehensive examination system for high - school graduates, says Ludger Woessmann, whose systematic, sophisticated analyses of international test - score data best summarize what can be learned from abroad.

Whether it is the role of money in politics and the so - called «donor class,» the emergence of Republican majorities in formerly blue states like her native Michigan, or the still - rocky relationship between accountability and school choice, DeVos has become a convenient proxy for these larger issues.

The chart above also makes it clear that some families in Cleveland still choose low - performing schools, probably for reasons the Plan hasn't yet or can't address: a lack of transportation to better options or the pull of neighborhood history that can make a low - performing school seem like a good choice.

Though the program falls under the law's choice provisions, the federal government still considers magnets an important aspect of desegregation policy, defining a magnet school as one that «offers a special curriculum capable of attracting substantial numbers of students of different racial backgrounds.»

The choice movement has been pushing for vouchers and tax credits since the 1980s, and as of 2013 these reforms still allow only about 200,000 children to attend private schools with government assistance.

Still, Strauss does an absolutely superb job of introducing the co-chair of the Broader Bolder coalition as «Helen Ladd, the Edgar T. Thompson Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Duke University who has spent years researching school accountability, education finance, teacher labor markets, and school choice.»

The Magnet Schools Assistance Program still exists, now run by the Office of Innovation and Improvement in the Department of Education, and with the same twin goals of fostering integration and choice.

Diane Ravitch was still a champion of school choice and accountability, and few had heard of Michelle Rhee, Deborah Gist, Jon Schnur, or Geoffrey Canada.

I agree with the study's authors that we ought to do all we can to make school information widely available so parents can make informed choices, but I'm still of a mind that some level of regulation is needed

Yet many of Illich's and Goodman's arguments foreshadowed criticism later taken up by school choice advocates on the Right, where until 1996 the Republican party platform still called for abolishing the Department of Education.

Still, there are a handful of examples of school choice programs that diminished achievement but improved high school graduation rates, including the Milwaukee voucher program and a set of Texas charter schools.

Yet despite the increase in the supply of information, critics allege that many parents still don't know enough about local schools to take full advantage of school choice.

The new law is easily the most aggressive school choice laws to date, leapfrogging Arizona's 2011 program, which still restricts access to certain categories of students.

In response to a separate question, a slim majority of public school parents (54 %) say that if they had a choice to send their child to a private or religious school using public funds, they would still send their child to a public school.

In this age of mayoral control of school systems, mayors in other jurisdictions can choose a school superintendent and still be held accountable to the voters for that choice.

In my new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education, I describe how I came to repudiate my support for choice and accountability, though not for curriculum reform, which I still believe is necessary and valChoice Are Undermining Education, I describe how I came to repudiate my support for choice and accountability, though not for curriculum reform, which I still believe is necessary and valchoice and accountability, though not for curriculum reform, which I still believe is necessary and valuable.

Still, we lack the data required to address a host of critical questions about school choice.

This is exactly why the recent national proliferation of private - school choice programs is such an important part of the still - developing narrative of a Catholic - schools rebound.

In other words, compared with districts that still practice zip code assignment of students to schools, are districts with public school choice systems more or less likely to have schools that over represent black students and under represent white students (or vice-versa) relative to the surrounding neighborhoods?

Washington can tell a district it must offer school choice regardless of capacity, but in the real world the absence of high - quality school options means that parents are still stuck.

Still, wherever you stand on these debates, it's certainly worth knowing whether the demographics of schools of choice match those of the larger community.

Today, reformers still pin their hopes on other strategies that count on the power of decentralized decisionmaking, such as school choice, charter schools, and vouchers.

This year we reflect on the miracle that schools of choice are still part of the fabric of public education.

And while the overall numbers are somewhat muddled in the data, state officials still reported increasingly white charter schools this year, so much so that the state's Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a GOP champion of school choice, asked to pull a demographics report from the State Board of Education's agenda in January because it was too negative.

There are a few bills still being considered addressing different issues of school choice, and Ritz says her main goal would be to stop the expansion of the program.

While we are disappointed that certain bills that would have provided parents with more options in the education of their child did not advance or were weakened, there are still a number of important school choice and education reform measures that will be discussed over the next two months.

Most recently he co-authored two CRPE reports on the challenges of public oversight in cities with large charter school sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cschool sectors — «Making School Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cSchool Choice Work: It Still Takes a City» and «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cSchool Choice» — and «Measuring Up,» a look at educational improvement and opportunity in 50 cities.

Michele and Igor chat with former U.S. Secretary of Education and President and CEO of The Education Trust John B. King Jr. to discuss our public school systems, school choice, and the racial dynamics still prevalent in education today.

But there are still reformers, especially those in the conservative and school choice wings, as well as some centrist Democrat players, who remain silent in the face of what is happening.

Yet, despite the policy's popularity, at least in regard to public school choice, the bulk of our students still attend their neighborhood school.

While President Trump was still a candidate, he vowed that his administration would allocate $ 20 billion to support vouchers for school choice, a likely source being Title 1 funds that currently go to about two - thirds of America's public schools.

As for the research on competitive effects of school choice policies in general — vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, and charters all together — the jury is still out, said David Arsen, a professor of education policy and K - 12 educational administration at Michigan State University.

Still, the bureaucratic Los Angeles Unified School District is vying with the massively funded charter industry for a bigger share of the school choice market by promising to create even more scSchool District is vying with the massively funded charter industry for a bigger share of the school choice market by promising to create even more scschool choice market by promising to create even more schools.

Joan Dabrowski, director of literacy for Boston's public schools, said teachers would still be urged to give students some choices.