Not exact matches
Private schools,
charter schools,
voucher programs
and other school choice options have been
championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.
Parental school choice fit perfectly within John's intellectual framework for effective service delivery,
and he
championed all forms of it —
vouchers,
charters, tax credits, magnet schools,
and open enrollment — throughout his academic
and policymaking career, knowing full well that his outspoken support for this policy would limit his ability to rise through the ranks of his party.
State Superintendent Tony Evers on Monday called for the new U.S. secretary of education to use her bully pulpit in the Trump administration's Cabinet to advocate for all schools, not just the
charter and voucher schools she has
championed.
Urban Day Academy, the school Williams
championed, closed its doors last year after converting from a traditional private school to one heavily dependent on
vouchers,
and finally to a
charter school, without ever finding a way to make the numbers work.
For now the Asociación de Maestros de Puerto Rico will continue mobilizing against the
charter and voucher proposals,
and Díaz said they are also going to start more vocally
championing for public schools that provide robust wraparound social services.
In a surprise 2010 best seller, «The Death
and Life of the Great American School System,» she openly declared that she had been wrong to
champion standardized testing,
charter schools
and vouchers.