Sentence examples for more parental choice from inspiring English sources

The widely heralded and long-planned overhaul of bilingual education in New York City, aimed at greater use of English and more parental choice, is in danger of becoming a small-scale pilot project because the state has not allocated the needed money, Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy said last week.

She acknowledges that, taken to its extreme, it could mean children starting school at many different times, which would not work, but calls for more parental choice and flexibility.

To do this, however, we need much more than just parental choice.

Under selection there is no such thing as parental choice, any more than there could be "a grammar school for all".

So for more than 100,000 parents all the talk about parental choice will be a total fiction.

Few principles have been more passionately upheld in education than parental choice.

Finally, it suggests that municipalities restrict the ability of some parents to choose their children's schools by introducing "controlled choice schemes that supplement parental choice to ensure a more diverse distribution of students in schools".

But in practice parental choice is limited because poorer parents lack information, and cannot afford the bus fare to more distant schools in better-off areas.

The figures appear to indicate that the Government's drive to promote parental choice is making those seeking primary school places more choosy.

Similar to Kershaw's work on ECEC in British Columbia ([2004]), this discourse around parental choice was found to work against the encouragement of more nonprofit and public childcare that is part of the inclusive liberal model.

Many parents choose faith schools for their children and parental choice is a fundamental tenet of education law.