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The American Federation for Children is proud to defend and expand the ranks of school choice supporters in the Wisconsin Legislature.

«This year, school choice supporters in both Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin will be making bold moves in creating and expanding opportunities for parents.

«The governor's education reform plan provides a clear agenda for school choice supporters in Pennsylvania, and Senate Bill 1 achieves many of those objectives,» said Otto V. Banks, executive director of REACH Alliance.

Not exact matches

While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

«Elected leaders, community members and grassroots supporters know that John Liu is the only choice to stand up to the Republican status quo and fight for good jobs, affordable housing and better schools for every community in the 11th District.»

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

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Their victory should give hope to school - choice supporters in many other places.

Howard Fuller talks with EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

In a flurry of press conferences and calls to choice supporters, Spellings and the White House unveiled a plan to incorporate private - school vouchers into NCLB.

The leading supporters of private school choice in California say they will wait until 1998 to renew their campaign to put a tuition - voucher proposal on the statewide ballot.

Also in these ranks: leaders like former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (Milton Academy and Harvard), former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (St. Albans and UPenn) and, of course, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, the lone public school graduate among these (Northern Valley Regional in affluent Bergen County and Stanford), who has also been the most vocal supporter of school choice.

If the U.S. Supreme Court approves the Cleveland program, choice supporters in Maine could have their case reheard to reinstate the eligibility of religious schools.

By 2005 Pisces was the biggest single supporter of Teach for America, a nonprofit that has, improbably, made teaching in poverty - ridden urban schools one of the most popular career choices of students at Ivy League colleges.

I am a fierce supporter of school choice — and that includes vouchers, tax credits, opportunity scholarships and all the other devices that make private schools part of the choice equation — and I am broadly on team two, believing we have a moral obligation to empower parents with more choices and greater freedom in how they choose to educate their child.

In recent years, choice advocates cheered because Indiana and Louisiana adopted new voucher programs and because charter schools — boosted by President Obama's Race to the Top program and movies like Waiting for Superman — continued to expand and attract supporters.

Among historically united Milwaukee school choice supporters, opinion varies sharply on the most sweeping regulatory changes in the program's history, which were enacted in July, described here.

While publicly supported private school choice has powerful new supporters in the White House in Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos, it is not a new idea.

That's precisely what many school - choice supporters fear — moving away from state - by - state decisions on these sensitive issues to a one - size - fits - all approach with Uncle Sam as regulator - in - chief.

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Microsoft Corp. co-founder and chairman Bill Gates has chipped in $ 1 million, as has John Walton of Bentonville, Ark., a Wal - Mart heir and nationwide supporter of the school - choice movement.

In toppling Bennett — a favorite of national supporters of expanding school choice and accountability — Ritz becomes the first Democrat elected the state's top education post since 1973.

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When told that President Trump was strongly in favor of school choice, supporters were 42 percent more likely to support it.

Ratteray was also a school choice supporter, and wrote a rousing op - ed in the New York Times supporting it.

Students at Milwaukee's Academy of Excellence charter school attend a rally for supporters of Wisconsin's School Choice program gather at La Casa de Esperanza in Waukesha,school attend a rally for supporters of Wisconsin's School Choice program gather at La Casa de Esperanza in Waukesha,School Choice program gather at La Casa de Esperanza in Waukesha, Wis..

Groups that support school choice issues, such as vouchers, were big financial supporters of Republicans across the country and in Wisconsin.

The controversy comes after a gaggle of school choice supporters clad in «I Trust Parents» t - shirts descended on the legislative building in recent days.

At the crux of the matter we became charter school supporters and advocates because we believed in a system where quality education choices were available to all students, not just those fortunate enough to afford tuition or live in the right neighborhood.

Walker has been a popular governor for school choice supporters — American Federation for Children chairwoman Betsy DeVos and husband Dick have contributed about $ 250,000 to Walker in recent years, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

Empower Mississippi is proud to be part of a long list of supporters for this legislation that also includes Arizona Federation for Children, Arizona Free Enterprise Club, Arizona School Choice Trust, Choose A School, Christian Schools of Arizona, Foundation for Excellence in Education, Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, Goldwater Institute, Institute for Better Education, Institute for Justice, Mississippi Center for Public Policy, Step up for Students, and TOPS for Kids.

On November 13 in Los Angeles, our ability to impact real time decision making was vividly demonstrated as 1,500 plus parents and charter school supporters rallied with Families that Can to defeat LAUSD Board Member Steve Zimmer's resolution to limit parent choice.

Nevertheless, the proposal, which passed last year amid often - bitter clashes over K - 12 reforms in the N.C. General Assembly, found a welcome audience among school choice supporters and Republican leadership in Raleigh.

They are praised by supporters as offering a choice to parents whose children would otherwise be trapped in bad public schools.

Klåvus is an ardent school choice supporter who would like to see all schools in Sweden become free schools.

The results in Michigan are so disappointing that even some supporters of school choice are critical of the state's policies.

In theory, vouchers and other private school choice programs open up the same menu of educational opportunities to all, according to DeVos and other school choice supporters.

This week, Brandon, a former High Point - area legislator who now heads the school choice advocacy group, Carolina CAN, told members of the right - leaning John Locke Foundation in Raleigh that charter supporters need to be more «forceful» on the issue in the coming days.

In the United States, many staunch school choice supporters are alarmed by the Trump administration's goal of expanding school choice without any accompanying plans for tougher accountability.

Jennifer Strickland, the school board's vice chair in Wayne County, which counts four eligible schools, also backs a charter takeover, describing herself as a «big supporter» of school choice.

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Charter school supporters and advocates frequently point to the broad choices that families have when seeking a school in New Orleans, where most of the 82 public schools are charters and most accept applications from across the city.

And since then, the two have not disappointed choice supporters, proposing massive increases in spending for school «choice,» including a new program that would use hundreds of millions of public dollars to pay for tuition and other educational expenses at private and religious schools.

So far, 19 % of schools in California have signed up to participate - join them and other supporters to plan events that highlight a variety of school choice options from traditional public schools to public charter schools, magnet schools, private schools, online learning, and homeschooling.

«Calling John Austin a supporter of school choice is like calling Frosty the Snowman a supporter of global warming,» said Gary Naeyaert, executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project, in an email.

In other words, supporters hope this summer's court ruling, which cited Colorado's Blaine Amendment to strike down the Douglas County voucher program, may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for school choice opponents.

The proposed legislation would also allow for the creation of virtual charters in Puerto Rico — a particularly contentious type of online school, evenamong school choice supporters.

When a new wave of school choice supporters were swept into power at the state level in November 2010, Heartland saw an opportunity to put the Parent Trigger idea on steroids by bringing it to ALEC, the controversial corporate «bill mill.»