Sentences with phrase «by opponents of school choice»

Despite their sordid history, Blaine Amendments are today used not only by Washington to deny educational opportunities for children with special needs, but also by opponents of school choice programs to deny parents the right to select the schools that are best for their kids.

In response, Dr. Casey Cobb of the National Education Policy Center in Colorado wrote a critique of the study, which has been touted by opponents of school choice, like WEAC.

However, these amendments, leftover relics of discrimination from more than 100 years ago when a surge of Catholic immigrants caused some to worry about their religious influence in what was then Protestant public schools, continue to be used by opponents of school choice as whips against policymakers who have no interest in inviting litigation.

The main two arguments used by opponents of school choice programs are that (1) such programs enable parents to withdraw both their children and their children's education funding from public schools and that (2) this loss results in further financial strain and worse education in public 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.

Not exact matches

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

As Robin Lake recently wrote: «Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.»

Some of these changes may well have happened without the competitive challenge of school choice, but even choice's most vigorous opponents concede that at least some of the district's responses were produced by the threat of external competition.

Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.

Opponents would claim that the inclusion of religious schools among the choices for parents violated the separation of church and state, required by the federal constitution, and they challenged the program in court.

Within the foxholes of New Jersey's charter school wars, the target de jour is special education, specifically the accusation by school - choice opponents that alternative public schools intentionally discriminate against children with special needs.

We need to ensure that we don't diminish the distinctiveness of these choices by allowing opponents (or even allies) to insert language that would undercut school autonomy or religious liberty.

Last week, several news outlets circulated a report by the U.S. Department of Education's research division that found negative results for students who participated in the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only private school choice program for low - income children in Washington, D.C. Predictably, opponents of school choice descended on the report to tout it as evidence that school choice does not work.

However, the opponents of school choice could not stand by and allow 753 students to attend a private school.

Stephens ran an excellent campaign but Rogers, who has been a consistent opponent of school choice, held on to win by a 300 vote margin.

Despite this growing consensus, opponents of school choice programs persist in their attempts to spread fear among parents and the general public by falsely accusing these programs of undermining local public schools and of further restricting educational access.

They are also among the most vocal opponents of school choice policies that have been considered by the state legislature in recent years.

Charter opponents are threatened by the growth of independent public schools that offer a promise of performance, are held to account by contract and open to parents by choice.

Evers is largely supported by public school advocates and Democrats while Holtz is running as a conservative choice, appealing to school voucher supporters and opponents of the Common Core State Standards.

Seen by her supporters as a tireless, driven supporter of school choice, opponents say she is the most ideological and anti-public education nominee ever to be put forward to run the the nearly 40 - year - old department.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a vocal opponent of the investigation, said in a statement that many people were concerned that the investigation was fueled by President Barack Obama's administration's «hostility to school choice.»

The political disadvantages of low - income parents also are exacerbated by the fact that the organizations most active in claiming to represent their interests typically are the biggest opponents of school choice.

Inslee has a 100 percent rating by one of the largest opponents of school choice, the National Education Association.