Sentences with phrase «than choice proposals»

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

Not exact matches

The Tier 6 proposal is nothing more than a false choice of accepting severely reduced pension benefits or joining an inefficient 401k style pension system.

City Councilman Robert Jackson told the standing - room - only crowd at Thursday's meeting that he has many questions about the choice proposal and how to improve the neighborhood's schools, and he urged parents to work together to find answers rather than battling each other.

Education Week quoted a former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, who blamed the proposal's failure on the fact that it «would have applied to nearly all teachers, rather than allowing veterans the choice of opting into the new system.»

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

While charter schools and digital learning are thought to be the safest choice options for political elites to promote, tax credits are even more popular than charters, and vouchers, the most controversial proposal, also command the support of half the population when the idea is posed in an inviting way.

Moreover, independents are more supportive than members of either party of expanding private school choice for disadvantaged students, the centerpiece of Governor Romney's proposals for K — 12 education reform.

The conservative House's opening bid, produced back in July, calls for trimming the education budget by $ 2.4 billion — less than four percent — while ignoring Trump's school - choice proposals beyond a modest bump (of $ 28 million) for charter schools.

Smarick has attempted to devise an accountability regime that is more nuanced and sensitive to the unique missions of private schools than other proposals to impose state regulations on private educational choice.

The most common proposal for school choice at the federal level would send federal money for schools educating low - income students directly to students and families themselves, who could then spend it anywhere they want, rather than to the schools, as is currently the case.

Their budget proposal would slash the Education Department's budget by more than 13 percent, or $ 9 billion, while providing $ 1.25 billion for school choice, including $ 250 million for private school vouchers.2

The major principles undergirding charter schooling — choice, deregulation, and so - called accountability — had already attracted significant attention long before 1988, and proposals to break up the «monopoly» of school districts had been building for more than a decade.

According to Department budget documents, the proposal «would support LEAs in establishing or expanding student - centered systems that: (1) differentiate funding based on student characteristics, providing disadvantaged students more funding on a per - pupil basis than other students; (2) offer a range of viable school options and enable the Federal, State, and local funds to follow students to the public school of their choice; (3) make school performance and funding data easily accessible to parents; and (4) empower school leaders to use funds flexibly to address student and community needs.

This, along with wildly exaggerated climate damage scenarios, is needed to justify aggressive short - term interventions such as the Al Gore or Stern proposals.14 Since calculated net benefit results for a two - hundred - year horizon are extremely sensitive to the choice of a discount rate, the debate over the discount rate is far more than technical.

This was a safe choice for her in some respects, especially since counsel for both parties had expressed that it viewed the DoJ proposal far less negatively than that of the respective adversary.

Radio Canada has reported that the proposals of the Justice Minister have received a tepid response from some groups who feel that imposing the choice of a single expert on parties will create more debates than it seeks to solve.

Dominating more than 70 % of the life insurance industry, the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), has incorporated third gender as a choice in its proposal forms.