Sentences with phrase «other voucher and charter»

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Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

That is one reason why in education, for instance, vouchers are to be preferred to charter schools and other devices that invite extensive government regulation and co-optation.

It is encapsulated in Terry Moe's recent book «Special Interest» amongst many others: the reformist demand for greater charter - or voucher - based choice and accountability, and opposition to teacher unions.

The Republican lawmakers proposing anti-Common Core legislation largely support charter schools, vouchers, tax credits that benefit religious schools and oppose teacher tenure and other traditional educational conventions.

Having established that the form of parental school choice offered within school districts is a harmful way of ability tracking, Burris uses that example to tarnish parental school choice in its other forms of public charter schooling and private school vouchers as well.

During this time, Florida was engaged in other education reforms as well: instituting several school - voucher programs, increasing the number of charter schools in the state, and improving the system used to assign grades to schools based on the FCAT.

National Survey shows increased support for vouchers, but public's views on merit pay, charters, and other policies have not changed, though teacher opposition to reforms intensifies

Certainly our policymakers are not willing to concede the point, not at the federal, state, or local levels, where arguments continue to rage over assessments, charter schools, vouchers, class - size reduction, and many other strategies for school reform.

On the other hand, he defies proponents of charters, vouchers, and other forms of school choice as wishful thinkers disposed to let marketplace theories trump evidence of student achievement while also undervaluing education's civic and cultural roles.

The Florida Supreme Court's decision striking down a statewide voucher program has sparked speculation that the ruling will aid efforts to battle other voucher initiatives, and could even pose a threat to charter schools.

In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

The decision was perhaps the biggest advance yet for a movement that embraces not only vouchers, but also an assortment of new arrangements in public education, among them charter schools, corporate management of public schools, open enrollment, and other alternatives to traditional schools.

How widespread is teacher opposition to rigorous teacher evaluations, school accountability, teacher pension reform, merit pay, charter schools, school vouchers, and other items on the reform agenda?

As reported elsewhere, the survey asked about school spending, charters, vouchers, teacher unions, bilingual education, digital learning, state take - overs of troubled district schools, teacher unions, merit pay, teacher tenure, and many other matters.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

Sure, that includes vouchers and such, but there are many other possibilities, such as amending state charter laws to allow existing private schools to convert and even making room for religious charter schools.

By providing access to private and parochial schools as well as charter and other public schools, vouchers begin to level the playing field for families from lower income backgrounds.

Vouchers, charter schools, testing, alternative certification, and other now - mainstream reforms are part of this broad effort to eliminate the public schools and oppress poor people.

This California - centric volume contends that many middle - class families live under the illusion that their kids» schools are swell and that it's only poor families whose children are trapped in bad schools and therefore need charters, vouchers, open enrollment plans, and other policies and programs designed to afford them access to better options.

Although certain forms of school choice (tax credits, some voucher programs) abjure state academic standards and tests, others (such as charter schools and public school choice) normally take them for granted.

Much has been written and studied regarding choice in education — on charter schools, vouchers, choice among district schools, and much more — but the idea, so powerful in our economy and in other enterprises, including higher education, has rarely been examined in the context of federalism and the appropriate roles of Washington and lower levels of government.

In exchange, she sought money for the public system, limitation of vouchers» use to private schools in the city, and discussion of a «Marshall Plan» for public schools, charter schools, and other nonprofit education facilities in the city.

Supporters of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice anticipate a friendlier climate with President - elect Donald Trump's selection of school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos to serve as secretary of Education.

December 7, 2016 — Supporters of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice anticipate a friendlier climate with President - elect Donald Trump's selection of school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos to serve as secretary of Education.

, a campaign whose sponsors include proponents of vouchers, charters, magnets and other schools, though the real focus is on vouchers.

Next week (Jan. 27 - 31) is National School Choice Week, a campaign whose sponsors include proponents of vouchers, charters, magnets and other schools, though the real focus is on vouchers.

Research and present information to your class on other important issues in education today, such as school violence, busing, vouchers, charter schools, technology, standardized testing and affirmative action.

-- Tracking a «school choice» bill: It's still very much up in the air how the administration might seek to channel public money to charter schools and vouchers, among other options.

The case for charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of «marketized» education rests not only on educational performance but also on the claims of freedom of conscience.

In other words, since vouchers and charter schools came to Milwaukee, the district's budget has risen by some 70 percent while its enrollment has grown by only 5 percent.

To argue that she has been even moderately successful with her approach, we would have to ignore the legitimate concerns of local and national charter reformers who know the city well, and ignore the possibility that Detroit charters are taking advantage of loose oversight by cherry - picking students, and ignore the very low test score growth in Detroit compared with other cities on the urban NAEP, and ignore the policy alternatives that seem to work better (for example, closing low - performing charter schools), and ignore the very low scores to which Detroit charters are being compared, and ignore the negative effects of virtual schools, and ignore the negative effects of the only statewide voucher programs that provide the best comparisons with DeVos's national agenda.

Today, reformers still pin their hopes on other strategies that count on the power of decentralized decisionmaking, such as school choice, charter schools, and vouchers.

Rigorous research on vouchers, tax credits and other school privatization models like charter schools shows that the effect of vouchers on student achievement and other outcomes is highly suspect at best.

Along with the cuts, among the steepest the agency has ever sustained, the administration is also proposing to shift $ 1.4 billion toward one of President Trump's key priorities: Expanding charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools.

Charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of choice effectively re-engage people and re-engages communities in a way that our bureaucratic structures tend not to do.

U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos addressed a standing - room only crowd on Tuesday, expressing her support of the charter movement as well as other forms of school choice including traditional public education, private schools, and vouchers.

While DeVos» lack of teaching and school administrative experience was criticized, it was her vocal support of vouchers, charter schools, and other mechanisms of school choice that troubled some senators during her confirmation hearing.

1) Charter schools, vouchers, and other «choice» programs don't provide a better education — why expand them?

As a researcher who studies both vouchers and other forms of school choice such as charter schools (independently operated public schools) I believe the new Louisiana studies are important to longstanding debates over the extent to which such choice enhances academic outcomes.

Basically, the suspicion that re-segregation is happening via Charter school take - overs, «parent trigger laws,» «school choice,» and «Vouchers,» was confirmed by speaking with other BATs across the country.

That program began by using test scores to evaluate students, schools and educators (and, for a time, custodians and every other adult in a school building), and included a groundbreaking performance pay system paid for by philanthropists, the spread of charter schools and vouchers, and a chronic churn in teachers and principals that Rhee saw as healthy (even though research shows children, especially from low - income families, need stability).

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

This campaign, it says, is really «a proxy for a broader assault on public education itself» and is coming at a time when public schools have been weakened by funding cuts, «vitriolic political attacks on teachers and their unions, and state programs to privatize schools through vouchers, charter schools and other «school choice» measures.»

From where they sit, if the new regime is willing to advance vouchers, charters, and other forms of choice, why shouldn't we assist it?

This fact sheet provides an overview of the differences between strong policies for public charter schools and other forms of public school choice and President Trump and DeVos» plan to use vouchers to decimate the United States» public education system.

Choice has been the rallying cry for defenders of charter schools, voucher systems and other contrivances that purport to free students from oppressive public school structures.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

Lawmakers are considering measures on tax credits, other types of vouchers, charter school expansion, and parent trigger policy.

If these schools were funded and staffed appropriately, there would be no need for charter, voucher, privatization or other «educational experiments.»

Here's an example of the high stakes: During the last election cycle, controversial initiatives like Common Core, charter schools, alternate route programs, vouchers and teacher tenure have all been on table for elected boards to consider in Louisiana and other states.