Sentences with phrase «legislature on charter school expansion»

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The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on the same day.

Romney also paved the way for an expansion of charter schools by vetoing a Democratic bill passed by the state legislature that would have imposed a moratorium on any new charter schools.

In April, the state legislature approved charter - school expansion, merit pay and limits on collective bargaining.

Gov. Chris Christie supports charter school expansion and has pressed the legislature to relax rules on charter schools that would ease expansion statewide.