The Supreme Court decision was immediately hailed
by school choice advocacy groups like The Foundation for Educational Choice, founded by Milton and Rose Friedman, and the American Federation for Children, a pro-voucher school organization with ties to the conservative Heartland Foundation.
Not exact matches
There are different flavors of private -
school -
choice advocacy, just like there are different flavors of charter -
school advocacy, but they are broadly unified
by this goal: more
choices, more opportunities.
Private -
school lobbyists are also worried that partisan enmity stirred up
by their
advocacy of
school choice could deny them participation in new education - reform programs, some sources say, and even make it difficult for them to influence next year's reauthorization of most major precollegiate - education programs.
A
school choice advocacy group official indicated the stark opposition to the programs has been driven
by opposition to the Trump administration.
The
school choice advocacy group receives the bulk of its funding from the Walton Family Foundation, established
by the founders of the world's largest retailer, Wal - Mart.
Bush's team at the Foundation for Excellence in Education pointed us to a compilation of 30 policy briefs and academic studies put together
by EdChoice, a
school choice advocacy group.
The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll
by StudentsFirst, a pro-school
choice advocacy group run
by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public
schools.
Gov. Hickenlooper supports public
school choice, as evidenced
by his
advocacy for charter
schools.
Managing Regional Director, Northern and Central California 916-250-2884
[email protected] Jeff works with
school leaders, elected officials, and community members to support quality
school choice for families from Redding to Ventura
by overseeing collective action and
advocacy strategies to address funding, authorization, facilities and other critical issues facing
schools.
In fact, most of the competition lauded
by choice advocates of proof of the market's power takes place within a regulatory framework, but DeVos»
advocacy record says she does not strongly believe in fettering a
school marketplace with such rules.
By 2014, states will be spending $ 1 billion a year to send children to private
schools through vouchers, tax credits and similar programs, according to Robert C. Enlow, president of the Friedman Foundation, an
advocacy group for
school choice.
Spearheaded
by David Coleman, these workgroups were staffed almost entirely
by employees of major testing companies like the ACT and the College Board, accountability and
school -
choice advocacies like America's Choice, Student Achievement Partners, and the Hoover Institute, as well as employees of Achieve Inc. i
choice advocacies like America's
Choice, Student Achievement Partners, and the Hoover Institute, as well as employees of Achieve Inc. i
Choice, Student Achievement Partners, and the Hoover Institute, as well as employees of Achieve Inc. itself.