Sentences with phrase «escape failing public schools»

Taxpayer - funded vouchers have helped thousands of families escape failing public schools, but their structure limits their ability to create the kind of education market system that Milton Friedman advocated at the birth of the school - choice movement.

In one fell swoop, she plays the «poor teacher» card, blames legislators who try to help kids to escape their failing public schools (which her union rules over) and Republicans.

A ruling against the tax credits would jeopardize not only the hopes children desperate to escape failing public schools, but also educational support for more than 15,000 other students.

The K — 12 school would be much different today but for Ohio's adoption of EdChoice vouchers — state money given to students, beginning in 2006, so they could escape failing public schools and instead attend private schools.

Cleveland's Saint Martin de Porres High School accepts students who use state - issued vouchers to escape failing public schools.

The subject of high - profile lawsuits and heated political rhetoric, vouchers tend to split people into two camps — those who believe they are a valuable tool for helping disadvantaged children escape failing public schools and those who charge that they strip funds from public schools...

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It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

«The mayor's obstructionism means nearly 150,000 seats sit empty in public buildings while public charter schools are shut out, depriving countless families of an escape from failed schools,» Moskowitz said after the rally.

They tell us that children must be able to «escape» their «failing public schools.»

The traditional arguments in favor of school choice - that it will allow children to escape failing schools; that it will improve public education through competition - are well known.

Vouchers are necessary, it is asserted, to provide parents with the means of escape from failing public schools and, in so doing, stimulate government - run schools to improve.

HB1 — The Louisiana Scholarship Program was fully funded with bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, providing 8,700 students the opportunity to escape failing and underperforming public schools to attend the private school of their parents» choice for the 2014 - 15 school year.

Yet the myth persists that this program helps low - income students escape «failing» public schools to attend «better» private schools.

It's a cruel thing to do to children, not to mention the moms and dads who see charters as escapes from the traditional public schools that are failing most of the city's other schoolchildren.

Driven by their Madison Avenue advertising mentality, the corporate education «reform» industry's narrative seeks to convince our nation's citizens that our public education system is failing,» parents need market - based «school choice» so their children can escape dismal neighborhood schools.

That scholarship allowed her to escape her neighborhood's public schools — where she had failed out of third grade twice.

More than half the states in the nation now have some kind of publicly funded program to pay for students» private - school tuition, programs that proponents hail as offering an escape from failing public schools, and that critics say are starving public schools of needed resources.

Meanwhile, the expansion of school choice in DC encouraged more white and middle - class families to send their children to public schools, and provided an escape route to some poor children who would otherwise have attended failing neighborhood schools.

Indiana lawmakers originally promoted the state's school voucher program as a way to make good on America's promise of equal opportunity, offering children from poor and lower - middle - class families an escape from public schools that failed to meet their needs.

Though there may be some small number of low - income families that have been given some financial support to escape a failing neighborhood public school, these voucher programs have disproportionately benefited wealthy families.

The first year report on the Louisiana voucher schools showed that nearly half the students were enrolled in schools rated D or F by the state, showing that (contrary to the voucher boosters), students were not «escaping from failing public schools,» but transferring from public schools with low ratings (based on test scores) to private schools with equally low ratings (based on test scores).