Sentences with phrase «under public school choice»

Jocelyn Lopez, a Camino Nuevo Charter Academy student explains why she wants the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education to select Camino Nuevo as the operator of a new school under the Public School Choice Resolution.

This past December, seven charter schools submitted applications for the opportunity to run the 10 new campuses and three low - performing schools identified under Public School Choice.

A Camino Nuevo Charter Academy student explains why she wants the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education to select Camino Nuevo as the operator of a new school under the Public School Choice Resolution.

LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer has introduced a resolution, to be voted upon on August 30, that would allow only in - district and pilot school applicants to apply for new schools under the Public School Choice initiative.

The key difference between public school choice and vouchers, he insisted, is that under public school choice, «everyone competes under the same ground rules.»

Not exact matches

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

At the community level, support for schools might also be enhanced under a regime of public school choice, because fewer people would feel compromised, silenced, or alienated in an environment where well - intentioned school officials are forced to accommodate conflicting constituent demands and wind up doing so in ways that favor the most vocal, affluent, or well - organized.

(A major reason for the failure of «public school choice» under NCLB is that nobody knew for sure before August or September whether their kids had the right to change schools that year.)

Equally important is well - informed choice, a powerful principle in our economy and in higher education, but one that is severely constrained in K - 12 public education, particularly for low - income populations that are most likely to be assigned to low - performing schools under the nation's residence - based school system.

Under an intradistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school within their school district, even if it falls outside of their local school attendance zone.

Our analysis focuses on new school options — traditional public, charter, and private — that families might gain access to under different kinds of choice policies.

For example, expanding distance from one mile to five more than doubles the number of families who could gain access to a choice of at least two public schools under an intradistrict choice policy.

In this report, we use nationwide data on the locations of public and private elementary schools to calculate the percent of American families that could potentially gain access to new school options under different national school choice policies.

In this report, we begin to fill this gap by using nationwide data on the locations of public and private elementary schools to calculate the percent of American families that could potentially gain access to new school options under different national school choice policies.

Under an interdistrict choice policy, a family is able to choose any traditional public school outside their school district.

The Department of Education has added six more states to a list of 17 already selected for intensive monitoring of their supplemental - education - services and public - school - choice programs under the No Child Left Behind Act.

Public school choice has exploded to include more than five million students, a number that will surely rise under the requirements of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Publicly funded school choice has increased considerably in recent years, helped by a variety of initiatives, including public charter schools, transfer options for students under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), inter-district enrollment programs, and a variety of policies to subsidize private - school tuition.

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

Charter schools are public schools of choice that are privately managed under a renewable performance contract that exempts them from many of the regulations that apply to other public schools.

We find clear evidence that the availability of public school - choice options under NCLB increased demand for information on school quality.

These data are linked to information on changes both in public school - choice options under the now - defunct NCLB law and in the number of charter schools in an area.

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.

Setting up a public school choice program, or free tutoring program, or intervening in failing schools — all of this is hard under the best of circumstances.

Fordham argues that school choice programs, including both vouchers and scholarship tax credits, should fall under the same accountability regimes as public schools because they utilize public funds.

Perhaps 200 public schools are currently under private management, and all of these are schools of choice.

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?

Since some Oklahoma children have already started the school year, the Education Department will phase in some of the consequences of No Child Left Behind that Oklahoma had escaped under the waiver: The state must provide tutoring services and public school choice options no later than the 2015 - 16 school year.

1) Scholarships — «Under Corbett's plan, scholarships will be provided to eligible students who will then choose to attend the public or non-public school of their choice.»

House Prices and the Provision of Local Public Services: Capitalization under School Choice Programs

Ohio's EdChoice vouchers are offered to students assigned to chronically «under - performing» public schools, allowing students to attend schools of choice.

Ms. Ravitch devotes a devastating chapter to New York City, where the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has made claims, soberly dismantled in Ms. Ravitch's book, that under his care public administration has continued to make steady improvement, largely through the creation of charter schools that give parents and students ever more choice.

The NYS Charter Schools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rSchools Act of 1998 was created for the following purposes: • Improve student learning and achievement; • Increase learning opportunities for all students, with special emphasis on expanded learning experiences for students who are at - risk of academic failure; • Encourage the use of different and innovative teaching methods; • Create new professional opportunities for teachers, school administrators and other school personnel; • Provide parents and students with expanded choices in the types of educational opportunities that are available within the public school system; and • Provide schools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools with a method to change from rule - based to performance - based accountability systems by holding the schools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement rschools established under this article accountable for meeting measurable student achievement results.

She was Executive Director of the Idaho Charter School Network, and had the privilege of serving under Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna as School Choice Coordinator, providing support for Idaho's charter schools.

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Since taking charge in Raleigh, conservative lawmakers have been steering public dollars into a range of alternatives to traditional public schools that march under the banner of «school choice.»

The report includes a special focus on 2003 - 04, with findings on identification of schools for improvement, interventions implemented at schools identified for improvement, and public school choice and supplemental educational services under Title I.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the wellbeing of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the Administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

Within this context, it stretches the imagination to believe that improving the well - being of poor children (the professed beneficiaries of choice programs) is the administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion public school choice program under Title I.

GAO found private school choice programs inconsistently provide information on changes in rights and protections under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) when parents move a child with a disability from public to private school.

Polling in Texas consistently shows that significant majorities of voters favor finance plans that include school choice alternatives that would allow parents to transfer their children out of under - performing schools to other public or private schools.

0 — impact of voucher program in Washington D.C. on students» academic performance according to two studies in 2007 and 2008 from the U.S Department of Department of Education under President George W. Bush (School Vouchers, Campaign for America's Future, and Vouchers and Public School Performance: A Case Study of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, October 2, 2007)

But commissioners could not reach a policy consensus on two other divisive issues in state public education — Michigan's expansive charter school landscape, and the state's generous schools - of - choice law, under which more than 120,000 students attend a public school outside of district boundaries.

However, these changes do not address the fundamental issue of funding inequity for all students.,, Public schools of choice are still not included in the state funding formula and their students are therefore at risk of being treated differently under challenging funding conditions.

While the funding increase to make expenditures at schools of choice more aligned with traditional school district expenditures is laudable, these changes do not address the fundamental issue of funding inequity: that public schools of choice are not included in ECS and their students are therefore at risk of being treated differently under challenging funding conditions.

Last year, the New York Daily News illuminated the murky language of the pre-K debate by explaining that «high quality» typically denotes public school system - connected programs involving certified teachers who hold Bachelor's degrees, and operate under a state - approved curriculum, as opposed to the Obama administration's pre-K system of choice, Head Start.

Mayor Villaraigosa has been an outstanding force in the education reform efforts in Los Angeles, a great support for advocacy efforts with his support of the Public School Choice initiative, and an advocate for school facilities under PropositiSchool Choice initiative, and an advocate for school facilities under Propositischool facilities under Proposition 39.

In partnership with the United Way, a dozen public school districts and higher learning institutions, local museums, local medical partners, and under the leadership and guidance of the YMCA of the USA, the YMCA of Greater Rochester continues to implement innovative programming that strengthens their communities, help children to be active and make healthy food choices, develop passions for arts and sciences, and strives to close the achievement gap.

Under the heading, «Myth # 1», Walker said in a March 22, 2013 news release: «Choice schools are getting more money than public schools.»