IALA » U.S. Dept. of Educ. http://learningalternatives.net The International Association for Learning Alternatives Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:21:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Federal Program Supports School Choice http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/810/ http://learningalternatives.net/weblog/post/810/#comments Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:21:50 +0000 Wayne Jennings http://learningalternatives.net/?p=810 The U. S. Department of Education’s Office of Voluntary Public School Choice program supports States and school districts in efforts to establish or expand a public school choice program. It supports efforts to establish or expand intradistrict, interdistrict, and open enrollment public school choice programs to provide parents, particularly parents whose children attend low-performing public schools, with expanded education options.

Building Choice.org supports the federal program with numerous and comprehensive “Tools” for communities to use beginning with the rationale and establishing a vision all the way to evaluating programs. Valuable resources, research and examples will help communities or schools at any stage in their program. Building Choice was developed for USDE by WestEd in collaboration with Edvance Research who also did a series on Innovation Guides.

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