Sentences with phrase «system of school choice in»

system of school choice in New Haven has shown that it has a sorting and segregating function which can favor parents with the most time and capacity to engage with a complicated system.

Milwaukee has the most extensive system of school choice in any American city.

Choosing Schools «most unique contribution is to evaluate systems of school choice in terms of how they could serve various public interests - namely, the degree to which a system of choice can promote equity, student achievement, and social capital (or social connectedness).

Not exact matches

I love that we can make that choice and I also love that we have a formal school system (one which I work in) that is there and available for everyone who can't make the choice you have be it financial, lack of interest or knowledge or whatever.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice to lead New York City's school system, Alberto M. Carvalho, said that he had changed his mind and would not leave his job as superintendent of the Miami - Dade County system, leading to cheers in a packed meeting room of his school board.

Other announcements expected include reform of the system for diagnosing and helping children with special educational needs to give parents more choice in how they are schooled; reforms to the family justice system to speed up care proceedings so no cases take more than six months; and promised changes to the adoption system to make sure parents and children are matched more quickly.

The inability of the two sides to agree on an appeals process had been the reason why talks on a new evaluation system for 33 schools in the restart and transformation models had broken down and the reason that the mayor gave for saying he had no choice but to close those schools.

«Teens are ignorant of the risk of using e-cigarettes, so it has become their new drug of choice,» says Campbell - Heider, associate professor and chair of the Department of Family, Community and Health System Sciences in the UB School of Nursing.

Gross illuminates the Catholic struggle to create an alternative school system in sober, academic language free of the hysteria surrounding much of the contemporary debate over school choice.

In contrast to district - based service systems, in which the central office or its chosen contractors provide all services to schools, the essence of the charter school service system must be diversity and choicIn contrast to district - based service systems, in which the central office or its chosen contractors provide all services to schools, the essence of the charter school service system must be diversity and choicin which the central office or its chosen contractors provide all services to schools, the essence of the charter school service system must be diversity and choice.

In three new articles published in Education Next, researchers with the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, show the impact of the reforms on student performance; consider to what degree the city's system of school choice provides a variety of distinct options for families; and take a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment systeIn three new articles published in Education Next, researchers with the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, show the impact of the reforms on student performance; consider to what degree the city's system of school choice provides a variety of distinct options for families; and take a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment systein Education Next, researchers with the Education Research Alliance for New Orleans (ERA - New Orleans) at Tulane University, directed by professor of economics, Douglas Harris, show the impact of the reforms on student performance; consider to what degree the city's system of school choice provides a variety of distinct options for families; and take a careful look at the city's unique centralized enrollment system.

Avis Glaze, former superintendent of the Ontario education system, correctly observed that Canada does not have charter schools, but others mentioned that the large number of religious schools that are both government - funded and subject to state regulation give Canadians even more choice than exists in the United States.

There's lots of choice in school systems like Charlotte - Mecklenberg and Seattle.

Our measure of the current level of choice in the public school system has no statistically significant relationship with charter support within school districts.

But as that system is slowly replaced by one marked by an array of nongovernmental school providers, parental choice, and the «portfolio management» mindset, new policies (undergirded by a new understanding of the government's role in public schooling) are needed.

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.

DC and Milwaukee are both citywide programs, but DC is unique in its robust system of public school choice — roughly 35 percent of the control group in our study attended charter schools, for example.

The statement includes a list of these developments: the US Supreme Court ruled scholarships constitutional; numerous studies showed these programs benefit needy kids; families empowered with this choice express great satisfaction; urban districts continue to struggle despite great effort; chartering hasn't created enough high - quality seats; and smart accountability systems can ensure only high - quality private schools participate in these programs.

Charters and vouchers, for example, have not succeeded in extending school choice to many more millions of kids because the structural rigidities, ingrained practices, and adult interest groups that dominate the system haven't let that happen.

In short, a system of school choice would prove more satisfying for educators because it could foster the creation of cohesive learning communities based on common beliefs about teaching and learning.

A recent series of articles by the Orlando Sentinel highlighted problems at some schools that participate in the program, describing Florida's choice system as «so weakly regulated that some schools hire teachers without college degrees, hold classes in aging strip malls and falsify fire - safety and health records.»

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

Under the current system, in which choice is costly, private school choice can be expected to produce social biases that mirror some of the concerns of voucher critics.

Regardless of the reform strategy — whether new standards, or accountability, or small schools, or parental choice, or teacher effectiveness — there is an underlying weakness in the U.S. education system which has hampered every effort up to now: most consequential decisions are made by district and state leaders, yet these leaders lack the infrastructure to learn quickly what's working and what's not.

WASHINGTON — The State of Mississippi has a duty to eliminate the vestiges of segregation in its higher - education system that continue to hamper the college choices of its black high - school graduates, lawyers representing the Bush Administration and a group of black residents told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

When I started writing The Urban School System of the Future in 2009, I didn't foresee the extent of the complications associated with parental choice in cities with expansive networks of accessible schools.

The key points from each strand are highlighted as follows: Early Identification and support • Early identification of need: health and development review at 2/2.5 years • Support in early years from health professionals: greater capacity from health visiting services • Accessible and high quality early years provision: DfE and DfH joint policy statement on the early years; tickell review of EYFS; free entitlement of 15 hours for disadvantaged two year olds • A new approach to statutory assessment: education, health and care plan to replace statement • A more efficient statutory assessment process: DoH to improve the provision and timeliness of health advice; to reduce time limit for current statutory assessment process to 20 weeks Giving parent's control • Supporting families through the system: a continuation of early support resources • Clearer information for parents: local authorities to set out a local offer of support; slim down requirements on schools to publish SEN information • Giving parents more control over support and funding for their child: individual budget by 2014 for all those with EHC plan • A clear choice of school: parents will have rights to express a preference for a state - funded school • Short breaks for carers and children: a continuation in investment in short breaks • Mediation to resolve disagreements: use of mediation before a parent can register an appeal with the Tribunal

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

In multi-ethnic societies, including Turkey, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Guatemala, the paper shows that imposing a dominant language through a school system — while sometimes a choice of necessity — has frequently been a source of grievance linked to wider issues of social and cultural inequality.

The explanation for this odd fact: since 1981 Chile has had a more comprehensive school choice system than any other country in the world, as well as a system of publicly available information on student test performance.

Districts throughout the country are responding in one of two ways: either adopting a race - blind system of admissions, thus converting the magnet to a themed school of choice; or constructing a system whereby race is only one of several factors considered in admission.

While expanding parental options for children's education in Milwaukee, school choice has transformed public education into a multi-sector delivery system for the good of everyone.

Kolderie was its author, and he summarized it this way: «The proposal outlined in this report is designed to introduce the dynamics of choice, competition and innovation into America's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

The promise of a personalized education system is enormous: we are witnessing an era when new school models and structures, often supported by technology, can tailor learning experiences to each student and allow students more choice in how they access and navigate those experiences.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

In opting out of public schools, Choice parents are helping to reform a Milwaukee Public School (MPS) system that has resisted or subverted other reform efforts.

This superb short report by Lake and Schnaiberg on special education in NOLA shows how a system of choice and autonomous schools can, if wisely organized, offer improved services to high - need kids.

(Dozens of selective high schools in New York City — not including the eight that rely entirely on test scores — follow a complex citywide dual - track choice - and - selection process akin to the «match» system by which medical residents get placed.)

As O'Brien notes, a system of school choice would sever the ties between housing and education, which is a policy that could keep «many people from becoming cash - poor and wealthy — a precarious thing — in the first place.»

Choice does not preclude working for fundamental change in public school systems, nor does it necessarily equate with an unlimited endorsement of «privatization,» as opponents frequently charge.

«The public educational system is a monopoly,» he wrote in 1967, offering choice only to «those who [can] afford to buy education outside the public schools» and thereby amplifying the influence of family background on student achievement.

As David Gardner said, it took autonomy and high standards in addition to generous funding following students to schools of their choice to help create the finest university system in the world.

In their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomeIn their work at the Project for Policy Innovation in Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomein Education, Kane and his colleagues have been working with school districts around the country, using data to evaluate hiring and certification policies for teachers, public school choice systems, and the effect of charter and pilot schools on student outcomes.

Interestingly, this system of choice and competition resulted in a fair amount of uniformity across U.S. school systems.

My opponents complained that I had tried to destroy the school system with my leadership role in the North Division and independent school district controversies and my support of parental choice.

That is the static view of the marketplace that induced Diane Ravitch, in her new book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, to turn against accountability, charter schools, and school cSchool System, to turn against accountability, charter schools, and school cschool choice.

More important, however, is the larger implication I take from Mr. Bedrick's thesis: that private school choice advocates in America, Mr. Bedrick among them, have failed to establish a coherent, prevailing belief system about the role of private schools in providing an education of measured quality, at scale, for the nation's most disadvantaged youth.

Unified open - enrollment systems that encompass as many choices as possible from the regular public, charter, private, and virtual school universes are essential to the expansion of choice and competition in K — 12 education.

In a symbiotic and mutually reinforcing way, a robust public school choice system can help to attract young families to an urban area while an influx of young families can also create political momentum around more robust systems of public school choice.

The federal government has a legitimate role in overseeing the marketplace for schooling, including the architecture of parental choice systems.