Sentences with phrase «choice supporters»

But more than anything, we'd like to thank the hundreds of school choice supporters who took time out to offer wishes for kids and parents.

Their victory should give hope to school - choice supporters in many other places.

That's why we (and many other choice supporters) have urged a degree of standards - based reform for the choice sector, too.

It's incumbent upon choice supporters to step up now and present a united front to keep it that way.

School - choice supporters believed parents and students would reject badly run charter schools and allow only the best to remain open.

Money should «follow the child» school choice supporters say, meaning per - pupil tax dollars should be directed towards whichever school system a student wishes to attend.

Even school choice supporters acknowledge this change will be ineffective in helping families without means to choose the private school they wish for their children.

It also had the financial backing of a wealthy school choice supporter from Oregon behind a growing chain of charter operators.

However, the new year brought sobering news for choice supporters.

School choice supporters need to remember that the battle does not end when they win in the legislature.

Chalkbeat School choice supporters downplay new voucher research, saying schools are more than a test score

From The 74: Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, talks about being a school choice supporter during the current presidential campaign.

In other states, the launch and expansion of voucher programs should be used by school choice supporters as an opportunity to team up with school data quality activists such as the Data Quality Campaign to push for the overhaul of existing data systems and the launch of new, more - comprehensive systems.

If choice supporters succeeded in changing the procedure, the issue of constitutionality would be resolved.

School choice supporters held a rally at the Capitol in Madison in February 2005.

They say conference leader, Senator Jeff Klein, an ardent pro choice supporter, should demand that the bill come to the floor for a vote before the session ends.

This is an issue that both charter and private choice supporters must soon confront; but it is hardly unique to the Nevada ESA program.

Choice supporters claim that such discriminatory exclusion violates the Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection clause and the First Amendment's free exercise clause.

This school choice supporter thinks that advocates would do themselves a huge favor by keeping the walking tsunami that is President Trump as far from their efforts as humanly possible.

So open to new ideas was he at that time that in another of his earlier volumes, Free Schools, he even hinted at a solution not much different from the one advocated by choice supporters today.

We hoped the event would be an entertaining way to raise awareness about what school choice really is, and who school choice supporters really are, and because so many of you who participated, it was!

That's precisely what many school - choice supporters fear — moving away from state - by - state decisions on these sensitive issues to a one - size - fits - all approach with Uncle Sam as regulator - in - chief.

While supporters of traditional public schools decry the changes, school choice supporters argued Tuesday that North Carolina is now doing a better job of meeting the needs of individual students.

Maddox, a Black Lives Matter and school choice supporter comments on why she chose to send her daughter to a charter school:

The controversy comes after a gaggle of school choice supporters clad in «I Trust Parents» t - shirts descended on the legislative building in recent days.

* Starred Review * As an education historian and former assistant secretary of education, Ravitch has witnessed the trends in public education over the past 40 years and has herself swung from public - school advocate to market - driven accountability and choice supporter back to public - school advocate.

Hundreds of school choice supporters filled the State Capitol yesterday as part of National School Choice Week.

Typically, choice supporters get eaten alive by the teachers» - union spending juggernaut.

With school choice supporters helming both the White House and the U.S. Department of Education, media attention to school choice has focused on potential changes at the federal level.

And since then, the two have not disappointed choice supporters, proposing massive increases in spending for school «choice,» including a new program that would use hundreds of millions of public dollars to pay for tuition and other educational expenses at private and religious schools.

More than 1,500 school choice supporters rallied at the Ohio Statehouse today to encourage Ohio's elected leaders to support empowering Ohio families and students with educational options.

That's why school choice supporters champion open enrollment policies, which allow parents to choose from any traditional public school, regardless of zone or district.

(Other left - leaning choice supporters have raised concerns that modern voucher programs are too cheap.)

But why would choice supporters favor this?

Several House seats, that weak school choice supporters once held, have been replaced with strong allies who will fight for the school choice options parents want and the access to any school an Arizona child needs.

Trying to get a bigger ESA expansion through the legislature, which would make the program less complicated for parents to understand and easier to implement for the Arizona Department of Education was one of the toughest fights school choice supporters ever faced.

Izumi makes the case that while many school choice supporters rely on academic school performance data to show that public schools are failing, there are many other equally important reasons to support it.

Even if they disagree with the general assessment of the danger that vouchers pose to private schools, school choice supporters need the most powerful coalition they can muster to pass and defend school choice legislation.

«The governor's education reform plan provides a clear agenda for school choice supporters in Pennsylvania, and Senate Bill 1 achieves many of those objectives,» said Otto V. Banks, executive director of REACH Alliance.

The McKay voucher scandal is an important opportunity for choice supporters and school reformers altogether to advance systemic reform.

Good Morning From The 74: Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, talks about being a school choice supporter during the current presidential campaign.

«Our goal was to elect as many school choice supporters as possible, so we focused on races we thought would be close, where our efforts would make a difference,» he says.

Klåvus is an ardent school choice supporter who would like to see all schools in Sweden become free schools.