Sentences with phrase «public school choice bill»

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the student.

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Eventually, President Bush may use the bureaucratic resistance to public school choice to revive the proposal for private school vouchers that he dropped early in the negotiations over the education bill in 2001.

When Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, he was in favor of a choice among private schools as well as public schools.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»

Approved school - choice bill to allow students to transfer to public schools outside their home districts.

A school - choice bill that morphs into legislation that tramples religious liberty or turns private schools into cookie - cutter versions of public schools would not be a win for «choice.»

-- 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.

St Paul — Minnesota's Democratic - controlled Senate Finance Committee last week deleted from an omnibus education - aid bill Gov. Rudy Perpich's controversial open - enrollment plan, dealing a severe blow to the state's chances for a public - school choice plan.

Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick and others of a dysfunctional public school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests, and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on school choice.

Senate Bill 1 includes scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice which will be available to low - income students attending the worst - performing schools.

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REACH remains committed to pursuing passage of Senate Bill 1, which provides opportunity scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public educchoice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public educChoice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

Vos said the ability to convert public schools to independent charter schools makes the bill «tougher on the choice schools and charter schools than it is on public schools,» but said the measure's goal is to ensure all schools receiving taxpayer dollars are treated the same way.

Earlier, the Senate Education Committee considered a bill that would allow siblings of current Choice Scholarship recipients to qualify for a voucher without first attending public school.

The group argues that school choice bill would defund public education in Philadelphia and across the country by redirecting money to unproven charter schools.

The Trump administration is focusing on privatizing education by expanding school voucher programs that transfer public funds to private schools through bills such as the «Choices in Education Act» (HR610).

-- Charter School Parent / Public School Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school cSchool Parent / Public School Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school cPublic School Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school cSchool Alumni As legislators are looking at House Bills that will impact education in Georgia, there are many advocacy campaigns that are using negative language and messaging against traditional public schools in the name of school cpublic schools in the name of school cschool choice.

Jim Bender, president of School Choice Wisconsin, said the bill mostly addresses administrative issues that his group identified with the Department of Public Instruction over the past year.

However, the candidate did note his support of public school choice (via charter schools): «As chair of the House Education Committee, David introduced an omnibus education bill that gave schools more authority and autonomy by emphasizing Children First.

Here's how education reform was phrased in the poll question: «The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars arespent.

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Senate Bill 1, passed out of the Senate in late October, includes scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice which will be available to low - income students attending the worst - performing schools.

At the DLC's national convention in May of 1991, Bill Clinton and DLC delegates would endorse an education agenda that included, among other things, school choice, accountability, and Kolderie's idea, which the DLC explained as «giving entities other than school districts» the chance to operate public schools.

Bill Wilson, an African American advocate who grew up attending segregated public schools in Indiana, notes, «We had no choice.

Missing from the draft bill was portability for Title I funding, which would allow students in impoverished families to use their federal education funding at any public school of their choice.

He is also a proponent of a concept known as «portability» (included in the House bill to replace NCLB), which allows federal Title I funding to follow low - income students to any public school of their choice.

Groups representing school officials are pleased that the bill would repeal the existing set of corrective actions (public school choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing scschool officials are pleased that the bill would repeal the existing set of corrective actions (public school choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing scschool choice, supplemental services, reconstitution, etc.) and allow states and local districts to determine how best to improve their struggling schools, but some have expressed concern that the bill eliminates the School Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing scSchool Improvement Grant program with its dedicated funding for improving states» lowest - performing schools.

Calling school choice the best route out of poverty, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took aim at New York City's new mayor on Wednesday for his cooler stance toward public charter schools and warned that Republicans may hold congressional hearings on the education policies of Democrat Bill de Blasio's administration.

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

In 2014, the Missouri legislature passed an education choice bill that would allow students attending unaccredited schools to use their public education funds to attend a private school.

One of the so - called train bills combines a popular plan dubbed, «public school choice» with several other measures aimed at charter schools.

«The education reform bill passed last year by the State Legislature and signed by the Governor takes essential steps to close Connecticut's worst - in - the - nation achievement gap, raise standards for educators, allows immediate action to improve failing schools, increases access to high - quality public school choices, and improves how education dollars are spent.

If anything, charters and parental choices should be expanded as a way to give each child the opportunity to attend a great public school,» Northeast Charter Schools Network President Bill Phillips said.

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The House bill — H. R. 5, the «Student Success Act» — would streamline federal education programs and includes language that would allow Title I dollars to follow students to public schools of their choice — a deal - breaker for House Democrats.