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I believe public schools of choice will enhance that important contract that needs to be strengthened between parent and child in the engagement of the educational future of the child.
Not exact matches
But all Democrats — and all defenders
of public education — should steadfastly oppose this nomination, even those who
believe in «
school choice.»
Parents, educators, and taxpayers surveyed by the
Public Policy Forum in Milwaukee cited a range
of guidelines, from reporting test scores and teacher qualifications to oversight by an independent board, they
believe are necessary to oversee
choice programs involving private
schools.
JS: For the past thirty years, the phrase «vouchers drain money from
public schools» has been repeated so often in the press and by opponents
of school choice that many people reflexively
believe it.
WASHINGTON — Parents overwhelmingly
believe that
public schools are the single most important institution for the future
of their community and
of our nation, and they choose strong neighborhood
public schools over expanding
choice, charters and vouchers, according to a nationwide poll released today by the American Federation
of Teachers.
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.
Within this context, it stretches the imagination to
believe that improving the wellbeing
of poor children (the professed beneficiaries
of choice programs) is the Administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter
school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private
school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion
public school choice program under Title I.
How Music Got Free: The End
of an Industry, the Turn
of the Century, and the Patient Zero
of Piracy: Be they
school choice advocates or activists for revamping teacher quality or even standards and accountability proponents, many reformers have a tendency to
believe that their favored solution will transform American
public education.
Within this context, it stretches the imagination to
believe that improving the well - being
of poor children (the professed beneficiaries
of choice programs) is the administration's motive for seeking a $ 158 million increase in charter
school grants, a new $ 250 million program to research private
school vouchers, and a $ 1 billion
public school choice program under Title I.
Although some education reformers who support vouchers can be quick to create a false narrative around the reasons why, it is true that many
of us, including myself,
believe that
school choice should be
public school choice.
Washington — About 85 percent
of renowned teachers disagree that the federal government should provide greater
school choice through vouchers, a new survey finds - and almost all
of the surveyed teachers
believe that charter
schools and private
schools that receive federal funds should be subject to the same accountability measures as
public schools.
DeVos
believes that the marketplace
of charters and
choice is better than the stability
of the
public schools of Bethlehem.
The diverse array
of school reformers that
believes public education is broken beyond repair have created a shopping list
of reforms / solutions that includes the following concepts: charter
schools, vouchers, data - based decision making, high - stakes testing, parental
choice, merit pay, eliminating tenure, union busting, and Common Core standards.
As a
public policy matter, education reformers
believe public money should follow children to
schools of their parents»
choice.
The website fails to mention that it is sponsored by David and Charles Koch, two
of the richest men in the world, who
believe that transforming the
public school system into for - profit money making operations is the «
choice» Arizona moms should be making.
While they
believe, in theory, there ought to be vouchers, that parental
choice is a good idea, that there has been discrimination against religion, they're perfectly cognizant
of the fact that many voucher advocates are really less concerned with the well being
of religious education as they are with dismantling, disestablishing, literally, the
public schools from their preferred place in American life.
Lastly, we
believe a quote from the famous educator, John Dewey, summarizes well the importance
of our
public school choice, public charter schools, and SC Whitmore School in particular: «If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's we rob them of tomorrow.&
school choice,
public charter
schools, and SC Whitmore
School in particular: «If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's we rob them of tomorrow.&
School in particular: «If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's we rob them
of tomorrow.»
The charlatans can smell the easy money; they readily understand that it is just a matter
of playing out a role — you only have to say that you
believe in «
choice for all children» and that «bad teachers» are the problem, and that charter
schools are pathways to success, and, in good time, the
public money will come rolling in, as Stefan Pryor and his gang
of reformers at the State Department
of Education are only too happy to fund private initiatives, just so long as the required rhetoric.