Sentences with phrase «strategies for school choice»

We disagree on much, including big issues like merit pay for teachers and the best strategies for school choice.

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That short - changing, along with the Legislature's continuing refusal to raise New York's statutory cap on new charter schools, marks a significant shift in strategy for school - choice opponents.

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Using accountability (as well as school choice and other strategies) to improve matters for disadvantaged children has therefore been, and should remain, a policy focus.

When school closures are embedded in a strategy to create better school choices for children, it feels like less of an attack.

The strategies of that era — including high academic standards for all students, measuring academic progress, improving teaching, and introducing school choice to a monopoly system — found reinforcement in federal law with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2001.

If traditional public schools refuse to provide a safe, orderly, academically enriching environment for young adolescents to prepare for college preparatory high schools or high - quality career and technical options, then we should encourage the development of charter schools, magnet schools, and other choice strategies that do.

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Upon taking office in 1999, the governor pursued a multipronged strategy of education reform: an emphasis on reading, standards and accountability for public schools, and new choice options for students.

The President's America 2000 plan has been alternately characterized as a political agenda, a strategy for reforming public schools, a call to involve the private sector, an attempt to bring choice into the educational arena, and a crusade.

His most recent books areLearning as We Go: Why School Choice is Worth the Wait (Hoover Institution Press, 2010) and Strife and Progress: Portfolio Strategies for Managing Urban Schools (Brookings, 2012).

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?

They have targeted strategies to get strong teachers and leaders into high - poverty / high - minority schools and can swiftly remove ineffective teachers; they are closing low - performing schools and offering high - quality choices through both traditional and charter schools; and they have adopted demanding graduation standards and assessments so that students leave high school capable of attending college and ready for careers.

The strategy is becoming all too clear — ignore poverty, blame the effects of poverty on teachers, maintain the public perception of failing teachers and schools with an A-F formula that is designed to rank order students so that the bottom 33 percent will always exist (no matter how much achievement gains are made), use it to designate teachers and schools with low grades, then create a red herring for an impatient public by offering a placebo known as charter schools and school choice to appease them.

As the Foundation for Excellence in Education's National Summit on Education Reform kicks off in Nashville today, a new poll of 625 Tennessee voters conducted by Mason - Dixon Polling & Strategy shows that 65 percent of Tennesseans support the issue of school choice.

In the fall of 2009, he created and implemented the strategy behind Public School Choice, a district - run program that allows school - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing scSchool Choice, a district - run program that allows school - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing scschool - operating organizations the chance to bid for new and low - performing schools.

Reviewed strategies for enhancing students» high school and college outcomes include: 1) participation in rigorous curriculum; 2) small learning communities / small schools of choice; 3) career academies; 4) dual enrollment; 5) early college high schools; and 6) college and career counseling.

Armed with a mandate to foster excellence and equity, Klein prioritized four strategies: establish the Three C's (centralized control stripped of bureaucratic inefficiencies; a coherent citywide curriculum; and capacity - building for teachers), dramatically expand school choice, empower principals by coupling increased autonomy with strict accountability, and catalyze innovation.

Choice as a reform strategy, First Amendment rights in the school setting, and immigration reform and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program were some of the issues covered at the Institute.

Among the beneficiaries of the union's largesse: Progressive Majority, which was given $ 50,284 in 2011 - 2012, another $ 20,000 to Campaign for America's Future, which bills itself as a social justice group (which is quite in line with what the NEA is trying to do as part of a new strategy to preserve its declining influence), and $ 135,000 to the old - school People for the American Way (which given both group's opposition to expanding school choice through school vouchers, makes quite a lot of sense).

Touted as a way to provide school choice to parents, vouchers are promoted as an exit strategy for low - income students who are faced with poor educational offerings in the public school system.

No matter how robust a federal or state school - choice law, for such policies to work, local leaders — mayors, nonprofits, and education officials — need to have a strategy for implementation.

Their main strategies for fixing schools, such as providing more choice to students and addressing standards, are also similar to ours.

We developed and implemented advocacy strategies for policies supporting school choice.

Managing Regional Director, Northern and Central California 916-250-2884 [email protected] Jeff works with school leaders, elected officials, and community members to support quality school choice for families from Redding to Ventura by overseeing collective action and advocacy strategies to address funding, authorization, facilities and other critical issues facing schools.

Luntz said it's a smart strategy for voucher opponents to attack choice as privatization: «People want accountability, but they don't want schools turned into factories or businesses.

Panelists talked about developing strategies for marketing school choice and charter schools to parents, including the use of technology...

School Choice and School Improvement brings together a collection of exemplary, policy - relevant papers that examine how communities, districts, and states use choice as a strategy for improving schools and student leaChoice and School Improvement brings together a collection of exemplary, policy - relevant papers that examine how communities, districts, and states use choice as a strategy for improving schools and student leachoice as a strategy for improving schools and student learning.

In this webinar you'll learn how to build a social strategy that positions your school as the right choice for families.

That was a springboard for a nationwide strategy that backs legislators, candidates, and initiatives that aim to increase school choice, through the organization DeVos founded in 2010, the American Federation for Children.

And third, ESSA provides more flexibility at the local level for school improvement, requiring evidence - based strategies rather than the specific interventions of private tutoring and school choice that were mandatory for all struggling schools under the NCLB's school improvement grants program.3

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Their utter failure to do what is right has left parents and public school advocates with no choice but to take steps to hold state and local school officials accountable for their abusive strategies and tactics.

However, there are analytic and statistical strategies that enable you to control for these differences, that allow you to better isolate the true relationship between school choice and student achievement.

«The peer coaching model paired with schools and teachers viewed to be innovators has been very successful, and continues to be the strategy of choice for building capacity among teachers,» says Kennedy.

In this strategy paper, we summarize lessons learned from NCLB and how they relate to accountability under ESSA, particularly states» choice for the required new fifth indicator of «student success or school quality.»

While some states, districts, and schools implemented problematic test preparation practices as a result of high - stakes accountability environments, those «drill and kill» multiple choice worksheets do not need to be the only strategy for enhancing student achievement.

On the other hand, the other new board member, Scott Schmerelson, said, «I am opposed to any strategy that results in diluting and draining precious public school revenue or that does not fairly and equitably serve all students including English Learners, those with significant physical and mental health issues, homeless and foster youth, and those students and families for whom «choice» is not an option.»

Despite voucher supporters» efforts to make the voucher debate about «school choice» and improving opportunities for low - income students, vouchers remain an elitist strategy for subsidizing tuition for students in private schools, not expanding opportunities for low - income children.

This action tool, and accompanying online scoring and analysis tool, offers a practical strategy for structuring your school environment to support the development of students who have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to make healthy choices.

In Rod Paige's final «State of the Schools» address as Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, he outlined a very bold strategy to have HISD become «the K - 12 education system of choice for the citizens of Houston».

Equipped with the emphasis, tools, and preliminary strategy before graduating from high school or college, future millennials will be better prepared to make wise choices about the debt they incur, and the attention they give to saving for retirement.

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The project advances the Governor's Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) strategy to build a clean, resilient and affordable energy system by helping to make clean energy a possible choice for more schools and municipalities.