Sentences with phrase «by school choice proponents»

This adds to the nearly $ 10 million in state electoral spending by school choice proponents between 2003 and 2012, as tallied by the nonpartisan Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.

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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.

School choice proponents who seek to prove that vouchers, tax credits and scholarships «work» by citing test - score - based research have allowed themselves to be lured into argument that can never be completely won.

Adoption of a statewide choice plan in California, with its 4.6 million public - school students, would be by far the most significant victory yet for proponents of allowing parents to select their children's public schools.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Its summary, written by Chester Finn and Amber Winkler, tells us that «many proponents of private school choice... take [this] for granted,» citing two examples — one of them being the Cato Institute, whose Center for Educational Freedom I direct.

Proponents of the former ruled the education roost throughout the 19th century, but in the 20th century a child - centered doctrine, developed by John Dewey in the gardens surrounding the University of Chicago's Laboratory School, then refined at Columbia University's Teachers College, gained the high ground, as «inquiry - based» and «problem - solving» became the pedagogies of choice, certainly as propounded by education - school profeSchool, then refined at Columbia University's Teachers College, gained the high ground, as «inquiry - based» and «problem - solving» became the pedagogies of choice, certainly as propounded by education - school profeschool professors.

To the Editor: I am always intrigued by proponents of a «free market» approach to reforming education, as delineated in the Commentary by Karl Borden and Edward A. Rauchut («Choice: Making Even Good Schools Better,» April 17, 1996).

Ball points to out - of - state school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school choice proponent Public School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&School Options as an instigator in a campaign to advocate the state's controversial online charter school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.&school, operated by private for - profit company K12 Inc., that's been «troubled by high dropout rates and flagging academic numbers in its first two years of operation.»

You pollute the term «school choice» by including privatization and vouchers, when you should know that in California, proponents of vouchers are NOT included in the push for reform or choice and the in California all CHarter Schools are public sSchools are public schoolsschools.

Speaking in Indianapolis before a friendly audience of school voucher proponents, she instead laid out a moral case to dramatically transform American education — and improve young people's prospects — by expanding school choice.

In June, a third voucher study was released by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank and proponent of school choice.

While there are clear exceptions to the generalizations I will make in this analysis, I have chosen to focus on charter schools that exemplify a trend of exclusion that compromises the ideals of the school choice system as a whole, demonstrating how the model fails to measure up to the paragon of student and parent autonomy lauded by choice proponents.