Sentences with phrase «many voucher advocates»

This pressure would surely come from voucher advocates, but could also come from other groups who understand the nature of redistribution portability would entail.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

But nationally, it's a question that has ignited vigorous debate among voucher advocates and private school leaders.

For the most part, the evidence from this study tends to support the claims of voucher advocates and to contradict those of critics.

According to voucher advocates, parents are mainly concerned about school quality.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

This dissatisfaction, notes Moe, gives voucher advocates quite a lot to work with as they seek to move public opinion in their favor.

Second, and more troublesome for voucher advocates, a court might conclude that the passage of time or a more recent rewriting of a state constitution has cleansed whatever improper motive lay behind the original adoption of the Blaine amendment.

Second, in what is sometimes referred to as the «Brennan strategy,» named for the architect of the Cleveland voucher program, voucher advocates need to structure their proposals as limited pilot programs targeted at low - income families with children in failing schools.

Critics in the education community often stereotyped John as an ideologue, a privatizer, and a fire - breathing voucher advocate, but they just didn't know him.

First, voucher advocates should avoid statewide ballot initiatives and instead work through the state legislature.

The most interesting thing about Moe's challenge, however, is that it was not raised by voucher advocates during the period from 1993 through 1998, when support for vouchers as measured by both questions was climbing steadily.

In Schuck's words, voucher advocates must build an «army of black and brown mothers who will march on the capitol steps to demand a quality education for their kids.»

Many voucher advocates say that IDEA was written in an age when children were compelled to attend assigned public schools.

Modern - day voucher advocates often cite economist Milton Friedman as the visionary of today's programs.

The Oscar winner inspired a spirited discussion among the men on the trip, who were hosted by voucher advocate Mark Gill, about leadership and integrity.

This may be the fantasy of voucher advocates, but it's a nightmare for public schools and the families they serve.

Interestingly, the lawmakers who took the vacation at the voucher advocate's beach house all supported and co-sponsored voucher legislation in subsequent legislative sessions.

Joel Ebert and Dave Boucher of The Tennessean reported this weekend on a beach vacation for five Tennessee lawmakers hosted by a prominent school voucher advocate.

Some voucher advocates want a big expansion in the next state budget, which would require tens of millions of additional dollars.

For instance, to entice prospective parents, school voucher advocates often employ rhetoric about students being «trapped in public schools» without giving tangible evidence that the private schools the voucher gives them access to are any better.

«Less responsible voucher advocates will say that this is proof positive that these programs work,» said Figlio, who is the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

DeVos thanked Pocan for the question, then launched into a history of vouchers in Wisconsin, dropping the name of Annette Polly Williams, the late Democratic state lawmaker from Milwaukee who was an early voucher advocate.

I called Steven Green, a law professor at Willamette University in Oregon and an expert on church - state and school voucher legal issues, to ask whether some voucher advocates were too optimistic in calling the Trinity Lutheran ruling a win for school choice.

The irony here some find sweet, since Donald Trump and his selection of voucher advocate Betsy DeVos for education secretary idolize private schools.

In the last two years, Ravitch has accused private entrepreneurs, the «corporate - reform movement,» Florida Governor Rick Scott, charter schools, and voucher advocates, among others, of trying to «destroy» public education.

As Peter Cookson and Kristina Berger observed in 2002, «Much of the charter movement is rooted in the same assumptions and philosophy that [voucher advocates John] Chubb and [Terry] Moe use to support their belief that the American public school system should be transformed into a market - based «economy» that forces autonomous, publicly funded schools to compete for students.»

Colorado and Missouri are among 39 states that have strict prohibitions on public funds» going to religious schools, known as Blaine Amendments, which voucher advocates consider the last line of defense for opponents of private school choice.

Those who spoke in support of the voucher bill included Doug Tuthill, a Floridian voucher advocate who heads Step Up for Students, which administers Florida's tax credit scholarship program.

FACT: Although certain voucher advocates have gone so far as to argue that attendance at DC public schools leads students to join gangs, there is no evidence that voucher schools are safer than public schools.

Bender and other voucher advocates have argued from the start that no such discrimination exists, an argument Bender says is enforced by the DOJ's closure of the investigation.

Governor Snyder's secret «Skunk Works» group was an unintended peek into the money grab voucher advocates and others are attempting by privatizing the public schools.

Indeed, voucher advocates acknowledge this reality.

While they believe, in theory, there ought to be vouchers, that parental choice is a good idea, that there has been discrimination against religion, they're perfectly cognizant of the fact that many voucher advocates are really less concerned with the well being of religious education as they are with dismantling, disestablishing, literally, the public schools from their preferred place in American life.

Despite voucher advocates» efforts to spin the mixed data on vouchers as a whole, there is no research showing ESAs work.

When it comes to the competitive effects of the EdChoice program, voucher advocates have reason to cheer.

Robert Enlow, president and CEO of EdChoice, said voucher advocates have grown accustomed to fighting for the D.C. voucher program's survival under Obama.

Decisions about which schools a child may attend «should be made based on a child's individual learning needs, and that's what the school voucher program does,» voucher advocate Tosha Salyers wrote in a 2015 blog post for EdChoice, an Indianapolis - based organization that promotes school choice nationwide.

Statements such of that of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops show that many voucher advocates recognize that using achievement to evaluate the worth of voucher programs would likely hurt their potential for growth.

Public voucher advocates do not simply argue for vouchers, but they argue against Labor Unions.

Chavous and other voucher advocates have said that the study's findings can not be seen as a verdict on the program's effectiveness, because they are a snapshot of only one year.

While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.

This year, voucher advocates are energized by the choice of Besty DeVos as federal Secretary of Education by President Donald Trump.

We're told by voucher advocates this will be limited to Shelby County and won't expand unless is «works.»

Not exact matches

Public school advocates offer one possible solution; voucher proponents urge another.

Combining a social conscience with political pragmatism, he advocates using» «conservative» means (like tax subsidies and vouchers) to reach these seemingly «liberal» goals.»

Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith - based organizations (FBOs).

Thus he advocates a voucher system to help independent colleges and universities cope with the radically uneven financial playing field they occupy in competing with state - owned and state - financed universities.

I'm a huge advocate for having pets in your home, and I can vouch from first - hand experience how it has made a positive impact on my children and family.

The Clinton trust campaign is turning to powerful advocates, chief among them President Barack Obama, to vouch for the Democratic candidate shadowed by an FBI investigation on the brink of her presidential nomination.