Sentences with phrase «when school choice»

When school choice becomes the only choice for families of special education students, how does this impact the way they navigate the school choice landscape?

When school choice programs are not designed to focus on quality school options, student achievement will not improve and may even regress as has been documented in Louisiana with their voucher program.

Sociologist Richard Arum set out to examine the validity of this theory way back in 1996 when school choice meant choosing between public and private schools.

Also, when school choice students leave their district, that district keeps all federal and local funds.

Those of the Right see public education as an ineffectual monopoly, and think that educational achievement will blossom when school choice liberates children from politically correct curricula and obdurate teachers» unions.

When school choice programs are well - designed, they provide parents with the options to select the best education setting for their child.

The 3 - D School shows that when school choice options are available, high - quality schools will open or grow to meet the needs of parents and parents will be able to judge the education their child is receiving.

When school choice is expanded, even more schools will participate.

When school choice programs are created, regulations are too often imposed that mimic the existing public education system, limiting diversity of school and provider supply (consider state testing mandates, teacher certification requirements, and so on).

Cleveland's leaders understood that when school choice breaks down in the real world, government and its partners have a role to play to make it work better for families and cities.

Two conclusions from recent PISA studies are that increased national performance is associated with greater equity in the distribution of educational resources and that equity can be undermined when school choice segregates students into schools based on socioeconomic background.

Contrary to the largely symbolic reactions to competition evident when the school choice movement was just beginning, we find evidence of significant changes in district policy and practice.

Not exact matches

For instance, a new study led by a professor of marketing at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business finds that when hiring managers are given a choice between proven ability and apparent potential, they often opt for the excitement of the untested but promising candidate.

Fundly is the best site for fundraising when it comes to charities, non-profits, schools, teams and more — while still being a good choice for individuals too.

Other errors, according to Pii investigators, included ABWE's choice to mask the reason for Ketcham's dismissal under the general term immorality; when he returned to his home church, he was allowed to teach Sunday school.

But apparently it's a country where good moral people can be manipulated by self - serving politicians into being distracted from the larger issues by high - school debate questions like «when does life begin» or «should gays marry,» or even «is being gay a choice.»

Parental choice in general, and Catholic schools in particular, got a big boost when Mayor Giuliani of New York took Cardinal O'Connor up on his long - standing offer to accept a thousand of the poorest and most problem - ridden children in the public schools, those performing in the bottom five percentile.

«Embracing Christ fully was a choice I made later in life, when I was 18 and out of high school,» he says.

If you are stupid enough to use religion as a voting criteria, here are your choices: a guy who committed to one religion and has been living it; or a guy who went to muslim schools, sat in Reverend Wright's Marxist church for 20 years and then dumped both traditions when it was politically expedient.

When you sign up for this program, 15 % of any purchase you make from MightyNest in the future goes back to the school of your choice (it can be your child's school or simply a school that is in your local area).

The school cafeteria has changed significantly from 20 years ago when students had limited meal choices.

And, when schools develop relationships with farmers, it opens up new avenues for teaching kids about where food comes from and how to make healthy choices.

Significant supporting research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of choices via a school salad bar.

One of the benefits these players have is that when they attract a school that has good non sport amenities, they have their choice in any of that they could want.

Razorback Coach Norm DeBriyn originally had been hired by the school to teach driver education, and he was the second choice when the baseball job opened up in 1970.

Four years ago, when Janice Moodie and Arron Oberholser were high school seniors looking for college scholarships, San Jose State wasn't their first choice, it was their only choice.

And even though I'd like to think I'd make a different choice in the situation when my kids are high school age, now that I do have children of my own I'm a lot more sympathetic to my dad.

No, when The Pill and Title IV arrived, when women began to have choices about their reproduction, schooling and careers and didn't «have» to marry to be able to support themselves, that's when the shift occurred.

This is one of the many reasons I am hoping to be able to return to school for my Family Nurse Practitioner degree — we at Believe are so excited for the day when we can offer the same level and kind of holistic, evidence - based, informed - choice type of care to the whole family, not just mamas and babies up to six weeks.

Even if your school provides healthy options, it can be too easy to give in to temptation and pick a less healthy choice when you're feeling really hungry.

Then Jenna Pepper, a vegetable and nutrition enthusiast who blogs over at Food With Kid Appeal, brought up the point in her excellent article that if we continue to feed them junk food and don't collectively teach our kids, at home and at school, about the joys and benefits of eating real food, children will pick the crap over the good stuff when given the choice.

Significant supporting research from both the USDA and public groups has demonstrated that school children significantly increase their consumption of healthy fruits and vegetables when given a variety of choices via a school salad bar.

My thought is that until society changes, it will be a up - hill battle to convince children that the healthful choices they see at school cafeterias are great when outside of school many are seeing and eating the less - than - healthful choices in many of the ways we've talked about here before: classrooms, athletic practices, homes because parents are busy, don't have access to fresh foods and more.

When I wrote it, I was laughing about how pathetic my blog was for writing out school lunch choices!

Teenagers: Teens have many choices when it comes to being active — from school sports to after - school interests, such as yoga or skateboarding.

When I have only $ 1.36 to spend on food for school lunch ($ 0.23 for white skim milk, $ 0.27 for all - you - will - eat salad bar fresh veggies, $ 0.10 for 1/2 cup steamed veggie, 40.23 for 1/2 cup fresh fruit, $ 0.10 for 1/2 cup canned in juice fruit... leaving me $ 0.43 cents for an entrée that has 2oz protein and 2 servings whole grain rich grain), it leaves many of us no choice but to offer other alternatives to stay in the black.

I think city councils could do more good for kids by considering other food and kid scenarios like banning soda served to kids in public schools, or requiring food with nutritive value to always be served when refreshments are offered at a school, or requiring restaurants to offer kids real food choices on the kids menu.

And when they begin to understand that, they make better choices for themselves, and their innate abilities to lead and to thrive in schools begins to change.

Yeah, it sucks when others do it, but when * you're * the one who has no choice but to bring a sick kid to school, you'd like it if other parents cut you some slack.

It always encourages me when I hear of schools involving their kids in food choices or in providing them food from the school gardens kids helped to grow.

And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.

When Lake Forest School District 67 could not stock low - fat strawberry milk for a short span this fall — leaving students with a choice of plain, chocolate or organic milk — several parents voiced concerns that kids might miss the daily serving of calcium, a district spokeswoman said.

Sporting a reflective safety vest (Brian) and wearing a cooking apron (Ashley), we were about to go teach kids about riding bicycles and making healthy food choices when we met in the hallway of a local elementary school.

If, as in many schools, churches and offices, your supply room is really packed, a folding step ladder is a good choice because it conserves space when not in use.

We all have to make our own choices when it comes to school and separating from our children (or not).

Books about going to school — especially when kids are about to start preschool or kindergarten — are a great choice, as are books about making friends.

The meeting was scheduled smack in the middle of early decision notification week, when students who have applied exclusively to their first choice school find out if they've been admitted, so there was lots of hand wringing and Monday morning quarterbacking to be done.

Lucan tells us that he held a «coffee talk» to educate the school population about healthy choices, and perhaps he did approach the group with the requisite sensitivity and empathy when he explained why Go - Gurt isn't actually a great snack choice.

These great habits can only help them when they are going to school and are faced with the school lunch choices.

I finally resolved that packing my own kids lunches, modeling healthy choices and lifestyle, and trying to influence those kids forced to eat school lunch by sending enough in my kids» lunch boxes that they can share when asked is all I can do.