Sentences with phrase «where more school choice»

By providing highly accountable charter schools with access to inspiring facilities and affordable capital financing, CSDC is creating hope and opportunity for families and in communities where more school choice options are most vitally needed, including $ 50 million in new support for 13 schools in just this past year.

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I would have loved more than anything to have had more than one lunch line at my school, but it wasn't till I got to High School where we got a choice between regular lunch and a salad bar (which in my Jr. year added soup to it school, but it wasn't till I got to High School where we got a choice between regular lunch and a salad bar (which in my Jr. year added soup to it School where we got a choice between regular lunch and a salad bar (which in my Jr. year added soup to it also).

The majority of New Orleans children attend charter schools — 9 out of 10 — which leaves more room for choice than areas where public schools are most popular.

The School Choice movement imagines a possible future where the social impulse of Waldorf education and its accessibility to more families of all economic levels might be realized.

They are wanting to eat more salads and fruits and less fried foods — so right at the age where they are most open to making healthy choices, school isn't offering it to them.

We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.

Students will more often be granted their top subject choices rather than their lower preferences, in cases where a school can not run all classes.

More than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their childMore than nine out of 10 free schools have been approved in areas where there was already a need for more schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their childmore schools places, and the rest have been created by local communities that decided they wanted more choice for their childmore choice for their children.

It conceives schooling as an institution more like a church, a profession, or a branch of the military, where one can choose to join or leave, but the choices reflect deeper convictions rather than mere consumer preferences.

And the beauty of expanding school choice is that it generates its own advocates as families that benefit from these programs lobby to protect and expand their choices.We are almost at the point where ed reform organizations don't have to do very much other than to coordinate choice families pushing for more choices.

After again controlling for factors other than competition that might affect a private school's demand for certain teachers, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among private schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

After controlling for all these factors, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among public schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

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.

As reform ideas expand from school choice to educational choice — not just where a child learns but how they learn — more research is needed on the accounts to determine how a menu of educational choices affects student achievement and parent satisfaction over a longer time horizon.

Despite opponents» claims, the school choice community has been a remarkably pragmatic one where results are supposed to be more important than what the school is called.

Over recent years, the lure of the nearby fish and chip shops and supermarkets offering pre-packaged, on - the - go snacks have tempted teenagers off - site, and a vicious circle has been created where lack of customers has meant less money for schools and caterers, leading to less meal choice and drab dining areas in need of a spruce, leading to — yes, you guessed it — more children taking their money elsewhere.

For example, does search behavior increase by a larger amount in areas where more schools became eligible for NCLB choice?

New research by the Social Mobility Commission has uncovered a progression gap between choices made by children on free school meals and their more affluent peers which can not be explained by their results at school or where they live.

In Porter's school, that includes how to stand in line, how to make choices while in the line, memorizing a lunch number, where to sit, how to ask for help, how to return a lunch tray, how to leave the lunchroom, and more.

«He's been tentative on choice issues,» says the institute's executive director, Jim Stergios, citing Payzant's refusal to push for more charters and his slowness in expanding the student assignment system used to determine where children attend school.

Choice policies are likely to elicit more extensive responses in large districts, where individual families have less influence over policies and programs than in small school districts.

Choice may tend to produce positive results because you can't get much more segregated than a system in which students are assigned to schools based on where their parents can afford to live.

Nowhere has school reform been more prevalent than Florida, where students have watched a punitive group of legislators push a choice agenda.

Now that school choice is receiving more attention on the national level than ever before, here is a look at where we may be headed and what it means for Mississippi students.

The school choice movement is on the rise in North Carolina, where advocates hosted a celebration Tuesday to mark their gains and to press for more opportunities for families to attend options other than traditional public schools.

Bryant: We Should Not Stand In The School House Doorway And Resist School Choice January 12, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Governor Phil Bryant was sworn in to his second term as governor today, and delivered an inaugural address where we touched on many of his priorities, including expanding school choice options to more Mississippi famSchool House Doorway And Resist School Choice January 12, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Governor Phil Bryant was sworn in to his second term as governor today, and delivered an inaugural address where we touched on many of his priorities, including expanding school choice options to more Mississippi famSchool Choice January 12, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Governor Phil Bryant was sworn in to his second term as governor today, and delivered an inaugural address where we touched on many of his priorities, including expanding school choice options to more Mississippi famChoice January 12, 2016 by Brett Kittredge Governor Phil Bryant was sworn in to his second term as governor today, and delivered an inaugural address where we touched on many of his priorities, including expanding school choice options to more Mississippi famschool choice options to more Mississippi famchoice options to more Mississippi families.

Governor Phil Bryant was sworn in to his second term as governor today, and delivered an inaugural address where he touched on many of his priorities, including the expansion of school choice options to more Mississippi families.

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.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public educchoice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public educChoice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

Choudhury, 34, can be found juggling what he calls «design for diversity» as he focuses on providing students and their families more school choices in San Antonio, and a new enrollment system that will make those choices easier to access in a district where many families who could afford to leave did so, or who sent their children to private schools or charter schools, said Superintendent Pedro Martinez.

From where they sit, DeVos» advocacy for advancing school choice, both as Chairman of American Federation for Children as well as in her philanthropy, should more than make up for such concerns.

Families have more choice about where their children can best succeed, they say, and educators have more opportunity to choose a school that best aligns with their approach.

Many people think that charter schools are harmless alternatives to public schools, designed to give parents more choice over where to send their children.

It turns out, when you give parents a choice about where their children can attend school, those parents are a lot more satisfied with their children's school.

The government says free schools will drive up standards and give parents more choice of good schools by putting more power in head teachers» hands, while some critics see them as an experimental «vanity project» which has led to schools being built where they are not needed.

«When this government sets up free schools in places where there are already surplus places supposedly to create more choice, it does so by taking money away from other kids in real need of a school place,» he will say.

Regionally, the north east, south west and East Midlands are the best places for getting a place at the first choice school — the only regions where more than 90 per cent of pupils get their top choice.

Another reform approach that is often touted is to create more charter schools and give parents vouchers so they can have more choices of where to send their kids.

Mary Bousted, head of the ATL teachers» union, said: «We are concerned that more than 20 % of free schools have been established in areas where there is no shortage of school places and, since they are not part of the local authorities» planning procedure, they make it difficult for parents to get their child into a local school of their choice.»

In a world where millions of students, especially low - income and urban kids, are getting a poor education, teachers unions and school bureaucracies have been fighting choice programs for more than two decades.

These ideas — choice, charter schools, vouchers — have all gained a foothold to one degree or another in struggling urban districts across the country, including in DeVos» own home turf of Detroit, where more than half of public school students now attend charter schools.

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.

«While charter teachers are churning in and out of where they work, charter students and parents seem more loyal to their school choice,» said Luke Dauter, a Berkeley doctoral student in sociology and lead author of the study on student mobility, in a statement.

Last week the organization released the results of a poll finding that 78 percent of parents support a charter school opening in their neighborhood and an equal number of parents favor more public school choices, regardless of where they live.

I look for sanity, especially as I spend more and more time with parents in cities like Camden and Newark where public school choice and accountability provide the only mechanisms for hope.

«We must embrace the basic tenet that gave rise to charter schools in the first place: Our children have different needs, and they should have more choices about where and how they are educated according to those needs.»

Choice has given families more freedom to enroll their children where they think they'll get the best education, but critics of the program say it's also wreaked havoc with district budgets, as schools struggle to determine how many students will show up in their classrooms each fall.

The United States — and Georgia in particular — can learn lessons from this nation of almost 18 million where there is more private - sector school choice than almost anywhere else in the world.

Obama's agenda has amplified ideas that have been simmering around the country, including those championed by Republicans, among them the push to give parents more choice about where children attend school and to blast apart a long - standing system that rewarded teachers for longevity but not necessarily effectiveness.

Relational trust is also more likely to arise in schools where at least a modicum of choice exists for both staff and students.