Sentences with phrase «battle over school choice»

Mother Jones: Battle Over School Choice Is Happening in 31 Statehouses Across America http://ow.ly/7oJ4309Mil0

In a twist in the legal battle over school choice, two college students seeking education credentials sued the state of Washington last week for the right to complete their student - teaching requirements at private religious schools.

January 17, 2017 — By nominating Betsy DeVos as Education secretary, President - elect Donald Trump has waded into a deeply partisan battle over school choice.

The battle over school choice in American education has been no exception.

Colorful combatants in Washington and across the nation — like jaunty roosters embroiled in a cockfight — remain locked in battle over school choice and whether to further de-center public institutions.

His books include Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle Over School Choice.

Not exact matches

He is the author of four books: Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race and Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2007); All Together Now: Creating Middle Class Schools through Public School Choice (Brookings Institution Press, 2001); The Remedy: Class, Race, and Affirmative Action (Basic Books, 1996); and Broken Contract: A Memoir of Harvard Law School (Hill & Wang / Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992.)

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

Leaving aside the merits of the Trump school choice proposals, those plans face «uphill battles» in Congress, where Republicans are eager to assert their prerogatives over the budget, said Martin West, an associate professor of education at Harvard University and a former K - 12 adviser to U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - Tenn.)

Assemblywoman Polly Williams, the Wisconsin lawmaker who gained national prominence for her sponsorship of Milwaukee's school - choice program, is engaged in a bruising political battle over legislative redistricting.

«We have been fighting the battle for school choice in Pennsylvania for over two decades.

The legal battle over Nevada's school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state's highest court in a case being watched around the country.

CARSON CITY — The legal battle over Nevada's school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state's highest court in a case being watched around the country, though resolution could be weeks or months away.

In April, all four on the Mayor's slate for the school board — not one of them with a child in public school — defeated a slate of candidates from the teachers» union that has long battled the Mayor over school choice.

With National School Choice Week behind us, the battle — and it is a battle — to free our children from a monopoly by zip - code public education system is being fought on fronts all over the country, and in red and blue states alike, more and more Democrats are breaking ranks and joining Republicans in the fight.

They have often been at the center of legal battles over private school choice.

Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at The Century Foundation, is author of All Together Now: Creating Middle - Class Schools through Public School Choice; and Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy.