Sentences with phrase «against vouchers»

This is why we are pursuing a lawsuit against this voucher program.

It may be tempting to use this news as an argument against vouchers, especially because the evidence is drawn from the most sophisticated research tools available to scholars who study these programs.

Key to the victory against the voucher bill was the alliance between enough legislators from rural and suburban districts, and the overwhelming opposition from those representing inner city neighborhoods.

However, a major shift against vouchers has taken place within the ranks of both political parties and among the public as a whole.

A stance against voucher programs is an investment in our public schools, our students, and our community.

Education Next's legal beat columnists Martha Derthick and Josh Dunn wrote about the case as it worked its way through lower courts in Colorado, noting that a state supreme court ruling against the vouchers on Blaine Amendment grounds could open the way for a challenge to Blaine Amendments before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Unions have challenged parent choice in the courts, including a lawsuit against vouchers in Florida, a successful action against charter schools in Washington, and a new civil rights lawsuit against charter schools.

The case ricocheted through Colorado to the U.S. Supreme Court and back to Colorado again, where the state supreme court is set to reconsider its ruling against vouchers on the grounds of Colorado's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funding of religious institutions.

PDK finds much less support for vouchers than does EdNext, but the wording of the PDK question is strongly biased against vouchers.

While 26 states have voted against the voucher option, several locales, including Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida, have begun voucher experiments — often with political support from an unlikely coalition of conservative Republicans and inner - city, African - American activists.

«So, I'm not against vouchers.

The Utah Education Association spent more than $ 3 million in the fight against vouchers in 2007.

Listen to Rep. Johnnie Turner speak against the voucher legislation that seeks to use Memphis students «as guinea pigs.»

With the public relations campaign against vouchers in full swing, it is important for people who want the facts about public opinion to look askance at this most official of all education surveys.

In recent years, PDK has become more aggressive in loading its wording against vouchers by using the phrase «at public expense,» a standard phrase used when castigating someone or something.

Interpretaton: EdNext finds public opinion closely divided on the issue, whereas PDK finds a better than 2:1 split against vouchers.

One of the more effective debating points scored against voucher plans, for example, is the charge that «Klan schools,» «witchcraft schools,» and «fundamentalist madrasas» will qualify for public subsidy while imparting malign values to their pupils.

It undermines one of their major charges against vouchers: That they harm public - school pupils «left behind» because of a loss of funds.

Where Cafritz in early February had declared the school board «solidly against vouchers» and proponents «people whose goals are different than the people who live here,» she shifted course in a newspaper opinion article the following month.

Dead set against vouchers when he ran against Williams for mayor in 1998, Chavous had come around to supporting charter schools, reflecting Democratic orthodoxy.

· Tennessee PTA each year stands against vouchers — Parents should be empowered with real choices, if the integrity of public schools remains intact.

«If the Court does not rule against these voucher schemes, it will strengthen efforts that seek to erode school board members» ability to prepare all students for success in the 21st century.»

The Tennessee Education Association has released an anti-voucher ad called «Fight Back Against Vouchers.»

This is the most common source of criticism leveled against the voucher program.

Outgoing Secretary of Education John Kings warns against vouchers.

«I'm 100 percent opposed to public dollars going to private schools like this,» said D.C. Council Member David Grosso (I - At Large), who has spoken forcefully against the voucher program for years.

The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled against the vouchers funding formula without making a comment on school choice proper, but the effect unless somehow remedied would be to reduce options for families.

While our students await the start of a new school year... AROS Statement on the implosion of the Republican health care debate... Jitu Brown pens a powerful commentary... NAACP strengthens its position against vouchers... Center for American Progress releases a report detailing the racist history of vouchers in the U.S., and AFT president Randi Weingarten is attached when she agrees with the documentation in the CAP report.

It is for this reason that black parents will typically ignore those cautioning against vouchers.

If a state constitution contains language meant to stop government funds from going to religious or private institutions for education, conservative judges may feel constrained to rule against vouchers even though the funds go first to families rather than the religious organizations.

The plight of Florida and Colorado's voucher laws shows that courts disposed against vouchers can find creative ways to overturn them, relying upon their status as government funds and myriad other constitutional provisions.

Other European nations» experiences with robust school choice refute the canards that are raised against vouchers in the United States.

The other argument against vouchers is on church / state grounds — a concern that the current Supreme Court doesn't share, and one that I've always found utterly irrational.

Roach had voted against the voucher bill.

Still, there is a distinct, though improbable, possibility that the Supreme Court will rule against the voucher program on fundamental First Amendment grounds.

Voucher programs that affect only a fraction of students do leave others behind, but that is not an argument against vouchers; it is an argument in favor of a voucher plan that is comprehensive.

With Donald Trump in the White House and long - time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos installed as his education secretary, arguments for and against vouchers and scholarship tax credits are burning white hot.

Rather than arguing for or against voucher programs, policymakers should start with a simpler question: how can we most efficiently offer as many high - quality schooling options to low - income Americans as possible?

The vote [on ballot initiatives] in California was 70 percent to 30 percent against vouchers and in Michigan 69 percent to 31 percent against vouchers.

He is for public charter schools and against vouchers that could be used at private schools.

The argument for and against vouchers is very similar to that of charters.

Using scholarship, reasoning and facts, Berliner and Glass frame compelling, scholarly arguments against vouchers, charter schools, high - stakes testing, and school choice.

My two cents is that while you may be able to «discriminate» against vouchers, I'd be careful not to connect that link to voucher recipients.