Sentences with phrase «education voucher legislation»

Rep. John Moore, R - Brandon, the House Education Committee chairman, encouraged Republicans to pass the special - education voucher legislation last year.

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In «In the Wake of the Storm,» which is now available at www.EducationNext.org and will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Education Next, Harvard researcher Michael Henderson tells the story behind the passage of voucher legislation in Louisiana and identifies the election of Bobby Jindal, a popular governor committed to school choice, as the most critical factor.

Proposed legislation, which initially prohibited for - profit education organizations, now would require that such entities make available to the public information on their profitability as well as their use of voucher funds.

Vic Smith of the Indiana Coalition for Public Education said Indiana's tax credit scholarship program, which passed in 2009, was the «gateway drug to [a state legislation authorizing] vouchers,» which passed in 2011.

Nevada went even further, passing legislation that would convert every single public education dollar into a voucher dollar.

PRIORITY: NSBA opposes any legislation that diverts public funds from K - 12 education directly through voucher programs, or indirectly through tax credits or related schemes to fund private, religious or home school education.

October 19, 2015: NSBA Joins NCPE in a Coalition Letter Opposing Reauthorization Legislation of the DC Voucher Program in the U.S. House of Representatives NSBA and 55 other organizations, as part of the National Coalition for Public Education, wrote this letter to the U.S. House of Representatives to voice opposition to H.R. 10, the reauthorization of the District of Columbia private school voucher program.

In her talk, she ripped into Gov. Scott Walker's budget, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top, the obsession with measuring student progress through high stakes testing, privatization of education through charters and vouchers and No Child Left Behind legislation that is closing schools and punishing Education Arne Duncan's Race to the Top, the obsession with measuring student progress through high stakes testing, privatization of education through charters and vouchers and No Child Left Behind legislation that is closing schools and punishing education through charters and vouchers and No Child Left Behind legislation that is closing schools and punishing teachers.

For more information about private school vouchers and voucher - like programs, and a state - by - state breakdown of voucher policies and legislation, visit the research sections of the websites for the National Council of State Legislatures, www.ncsl.org, or Education Commission of the States, www.ecs.org.

Setting up a potential procedural clash with the Senate, the Florida House on Thursday passed a major education bill, including a voucher - like program for bullied students, and directly linked the legislation to its budget plan.

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The Division of Non-Public Education maintains that they are not responsible for overseeing the Opportunity Scholarships program thanks to how the law is written in the school voucher legislation.

The case culminated with the Louisiana State Supreme Court siding with public education advocates in ruling the legislation to expand vouchers unconstitutional.

The Senate Education Committee curtailed on Wednesday legislation expanding the state's school voucher program.

To their critics, the failure to pass voucher legislation has been a matter of defending the state's constitution, and protecting public education from the efforts of school privatizers and union - busters, like the DeVos» and the Republican legislators they have funded with millions in cash contributions over the years.

Although K - 12 education policy is primarily a state and local issue, Congress is on the verge of passing two major pieces of education legislation — the reauthorization of the Washington, DC voucher program and the rewrite of No Child Left Behind.

Its mission is to focus public tax dollars on the K - 12 education of public school students by opposing legislation in the Indiana General Assembly that would fund private school vouchers, expand private school tax credits, privatize charter schools by allowing private colleges and agencies to be authorizers, put for - profit managers in place to take a profit from operating public schools and privatize public schools through any other means.»

Washington, D.C. — Councilmember David Grosso, chairperson of the Committee on Education, released the following statement regarding a letter he sent with a majority of his colleagues to House of Representatives Oversight & Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R - UT) opposing legislation to reauthorize and expand the Congressionally - imposed school vouchers program:

When the school voucher legislation was being debated in the House Education Committee back in May, Rep. Rick Glazier presented to his colleagues the average costs of private elementary, middle and high schools in the state.

Members and supporters of PAA affiliate MecklenburgACTS will spend Friday, May 11, calling attention to the destructive education legislation that ALEC has promoted, legislation that increases high - stakes testing, promotes school vouchers and online charter schools and undercuts the teaching profession.