Sentences with phrase «systems of public school choice»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Here's the back story: when it comes to health and wellness initiatives, Nettelhorst, my neighborhood public elementary school, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Dschool, has moved mountains: we successfully lobbied to become a Healthy Choice Pilot School, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick DSchool, giving us one of the system's coveted salad bars, honored by the Healthy Schools Campaign and U.S. Senator Dick Durbin.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

He talked about Newark's universal enrollment system, which includes all of the city's public schools (both district and charter), noting that 75 % of families chose a school other than their neighborhood school and that 42 % of families listed their first choice as a «high - performing charter school.»

Not a cheerful title, perhaps, but an important one — your choice for best video is a sobering and illuminating investigation of today's public school system.

The second PDK item became the following: «Would you vote for or against a system giving parents the option of using government - funded school vouchers to pay for tuition at the public, private, or religious school of their choice?»

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 coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

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.

One chapter, by Ludger Woessmann (coauthor of «School Choice International,» research, page 54) uses international data to show that systems that make greater use of public - private partnerships (ideally combining public funding with private operation) perform better than systems that do not.

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).

Since the early 1990s, Milwaukee has been home to an increasingly varied array of school choice programs that now includes the nation's oldest voucher program, numerous charter schools, and extensive inter - and intra-district public - school choice systems.

As charter pioneer Ted Kolderie wrote, this horse trade would ``... introduce the dynamics of choice, competition, and innovation into American's public school system, while at the same time ensuring that new schools serve broad public purposes.»

· Big - city school systems are fighting charters by giving parents a wider array of choices among their public schools, suggesting that the choice genie has escaped from the bottle.

Throughout the book, Osborne returns to a collection of principles called «the seven Cs» — including parental choice, serious consequences for school failure, school - level control of operations, and the separation of rowing and steering — that define new public education systems.

This report also supports desegregation but it recognizes that desegregation is best achieved through a fully developed system of choice and competition that includes charter schools, school vouchers, and a well developed system of choice among traditional public schools.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

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.

When first explaining that a «school voucher system allows parents the option of sending their child to the school of their choice, whether that school is public or private, including both religious and non-religious schools» using «tax dollars currently allocated to a school district,» support increased to 63 percent and opposition increased to 33 percent.

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.»

But the federal government could allow states to enact funding systems where federal, state, and local dollars follow students to the public schools of their choice.

The evidence from a study of New York's magnet schools for secondary students «seems to indicate that it is possible to construct a public high - school choice system that eliminates some of the worst excesses of an unfettered choice plan,» the study says.

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 efpublic schools, Choice parents are helping to reform a Milwaukee Public School (MPS) system that has resisted or subverted other reform efPublic School (MPS) system that has resisted or subverted other reform efforts.

There are proposals for new approaches to public governance, research findings on the efficacy of decentralized systems, comparisons of cities that are expanding choice, ideas for accountability and school supply, and disagreements about who should have ultimate authority.

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.

Though the excellent new CRPE report «How Parents Experience Public School Choice» focuses on how families navigate choice - based systems, the new role of government is front and cChoice» focuses on how families navigate choice - based systems, the new role of government is front and cchoice - based systems, the new role of government is front and center.

«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.

Independent public schools of choice could turn out to be as disruptive to traditional education systems as those crummy little Sony radios turned out to be to the vacuum - tube behemoths and as Honda was to Detroit.

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 outcomes.

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.

Whether district - run, state - run, or charters, all of these schools operate under a system of public choice without attendance zones.

Donors Make Personal Links to New Students Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (EdSchool's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

Beth Rabbitt, a former associate partner at a venture philanthropy firm who aspires to lead a public school system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool system, had two choices for grad school: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool: a top - ranked business school or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Edschool or the Ed School's new Doctor of Education Leadership (EdSchool's new Doctor of Education Leadership (Ed.L.D.)

Through efforts such as the «Newark Enrolls» universal enrollment system and the New Jersey Special Education Collaborative, Newark Public Schools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sSchools and most of the charter schools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their sschools that operate within its borders are working to make sure that all students have an equal opportunity to exercise choice when it comes to selecting their schoolsschools.

Even if most of the private schools participating in a voucher program are religious, as long as some viable options exist within the public school system, the genuine choice requirement should be satisfied.

At the other extreme, decentralized choice systems can have severe transparency concerns, with schools individually managing their lotteries and waitlists outside the view of the public or an oversight agency.

This multi-part system can give rise to confusion and frustration, particularly among families trying to reconcile claims that they have unprecedented choice with the reality that their children may not have access to some of the city's most desired public schools.

These families feel strongly enough about choice that they pay extra to opt out of the public school system.

Her research has been focused predominately on K - 12 public education fiscal policy, as well as the competitive and efficiency effects of school choice on the public school system.

I share the sentiment that some of the recent laws have gone overboard in requiring state tests, etc.Private choice programs should be clearly understood as an opt - out of the public school system rather than an invitation for the states to impose their standards and tests.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

All of which makes one thing obvious: The only system of learning compatible with a truly free society is not one of government domination, but one rooted in educational choice — public education, not schooling — in which the public assures that all people can access education, but parents are free to choose their children's schools and educators are free to educate how they wish.

Surely there are risks associated with drawing private schools into public accountability systems, but empirical evidence shows that downsides can be mitigated if policymakers are smart about how they design results - based accountability in choice programs of this kind.

The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.

After all, the reasons for promoting choice often rest on the fact that public school systems are strangled by politics, bureaucracy, byzantine contractual rules, and licensing procedures that aggravate a shortage of quality employees.

In the clunky, incremental manner of real - world social systems, school choice is improving public education in Arizona.

Newer programs have developed accountability systems similar to those for traditional public schools: the state department of education oversees the choice program and participating private schools take state tests, receive letter grades from the state systems, and are subject to consequences based on those grades.