Sentences with phrase «opponents of school choice frequently»

Opponents of school choice frequently claim that vouchers and scholarship tax credits «siphon» money from public schools and increase the overall cost of education to the taxpayers.

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Choice does not preclude working for fundamental change in public school systems, nor does it necessarily equate with an unlimited endorsement of «privatization,» as opponents frequently charge.

As a large number of New Hampshire's nonpublic schools are religious, opponents of school choice have challenged the program under, among other things, an 1877 amendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine Amendment.

But as with the Blaine amendments, as I said, these can be construed — they don't have to be, and frequently have not been, but they can be construed — in just the same way that the opponents of parental choice programs wanted the federal Establishment Clause construed, and would like the Blaine amendments construed, namely, to apply to assistance to families that use that assistance to attend a religious school, in a free and independent choice.