Sentences with phrase «expanding vouchers and charter»

Bennett comes recommended by Sen. Alberta Darling, who along with her Republican colleagues have raised the ire of public school monopolists and their Democratic allies by expanding vouchers and charter school opportunities.

These findings are echoed in a July 2013 poll of public school parents by the American Federation of Teachers, which found that 77 percent support strong public schools over expanded vouchers and charters.

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In their view, the villains are those who want to «privatize» the system through expanded charters, increased merit pay, vouchers, union - busting, and other market - oriented schemes that challenge the fundamental nature of public education.

The real culprit of the school systems» troubles, Weingarten says, has been state governments» support for expanding charter schools, voucher plans and other school choice policies, which she argues has eaten into the budget for traditional public schools.

In recent years, choice advocates cheered because Indiana and Louisiana adopted new voucher programs and because charter schools — boosted by President Obama's Race to the Top program and movies like Waiting for Superman — continued to expand and attract supporters.

Romney's major proposal would expand school choice by essentially turning $ 15 billion in Title I funding and $ 12 billion in IDEA funds into «vouchers» that eligible students could spend to attend any district, charter, or private school (state law permitting) or for tutoring programs or digital courses.

I generally support proposals to expand school vouchers, tuition tax credits, and charter schools.

WASHINGTON — Parents overwhelmingly believe that public schools are the single most important institution for the future of their community and of our nation, and they choose strong neighborhood public schools over expanding choice, charters and vouchers, according to a nationwide poll released today by the American Federation of Teachers.

With 13 states launching or expanding school voucher programs, and 509 new charter schools opening this year, more parents can take advantage of the school choice options that have been a cornerstone of the nation's school reform movement.

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has pushed the hardest, enacting a law that removes the cap on the number of charter schools in his state, authorizes all universities to register charters and expands an existing voucher program in the state for students to attend private and charter schools (in some cases managed by for - profit companies).

Although Deming focused on public charter schools rather than pivate vouchers, the logic is essentially the same: expand the horizon of low - income children beyond their toxic neighborhood and failing school, and you change their lives.

Expanding voucher programs and charter schools will involve more than just lifting the enrollment caps on such programs; it will also require private - or public - sector efforts to create more schools of choice.

While the Administration appreciates that H.R. 471 would provide Federal support for improving public schools in the District of Columbia (D.C.), including expanding and improving high - quality D.C. public charter schools, the Administration opposes the creation or expansion of private school voucher programs that are authorized by this bill.

We need to expand school choice options such as charter schools, vouchers, and education savings accounts.

In an interview with StateImpact Florida «s John O'Connor, Bennett says almost all of Indiana's initiatives — A-F grading for schools, teacher evaluations, performance based pay, expansive voucher programs and expanded charter school options — mirror what Florida has been doing for several years now.

Along with the cuts, among the steepest the agency has ever sustained, the administration is also proposing to shift $ 1.4 billion toward one of President Trump's key priorities: Expanding charter schools, private - school vouchers and other alternatives to traditional public schools.

It would take several years to phase in an all - charter district and expand the voucher program appropriately, but New Orleans» experience would allow this to be done more efficiently and avoid more pitfalls in the execution.

Avoid expanding school privatization options, including privately - operated charter schools, vouchers and neo-vouchers, such as tax credits and opportunity tax scholarships, which research shows: (1) fail to deliver on the promise of better learning opportunities and student performance; (2) siphon limited resources from local community schools; (3) open up the potential for violating students» civil rights; (4) hinder transparency and accountability; and (5) tend to lead to more schools being racially segregated.

1) Charter schools, vouchers, and other «choice» programs don't provide a better education — why expand them?

Expanding charter schools and passing school - voucher legislation, as being voted on right now in Harrisburg, will end the public school monopoly that has failed low - income neighborhoods.

From centrist Democrats who think that choice should only be limited to the expansion of public charter schools (and their senseless opposition to school vouchers, which, provide money to parochial and private schools, which, like charters, are privately - operated), to the libertarian Cato Institute's pursuit of ideological purity through its bashing of charters and vouchers in favor of the voucher - like tax credit plans (which explains the irrelevance of the think tank's education team on education matters outside of higher ed), reformers sometimes seem more - focused on their own preferred version of choice instead of on the more - important goal of expanding opportunities for families to provide our children with high - quality teaching and comprehensive college - preparatory curricula.

The President's budget would cut federal education programs across the board and use the money to spend about $ 400 million to expand charter schools and vouchers for private and religious schools, and offer another $ 1 billion to push public schools to favor charter and private schools.

As school choice expands in both the public sector (e.g., via charter schools) and the private sector (e.g., though vouchers and education savings accounts) it will become increasingly important to understand how families determine where their children will be educated.

While some states such as Minnesota, Wisconsin and California began embracing the expansion of choice through the passage of charter school laws as well as the launch of voucher programs, it was the move by the Clinton administration during the 1990s to make charters a key part of federal education policy that helped spur states to expand choice in their own states.

In recent decades, legislators and policymakers have implemented several innovative policies to expand educational options, including vouchers, charter schools, education savings accounts, and more.

Expanding career / technical schools, public magnet schools, and charter schools, are all favored, with additional consideration for private school tax credits / vouchers and online schools.

The longer those trends continue, the more likely it is Republican proposals to expand charter and voucher schools will gain support among parents — maybe even parents in (rapidly changing) Madison.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

They also used Walker's budget as a starting point to expand his proposal to lift caps on school vouchers and to greatly expand the opportunity to open independent charter schools.

A Republican - controlled Legislature is considering a number of proposals that would change or reduce funding for public schools, including increasing the number of private voucher schools across the state, expanding the number of independent charter schools and applying letter grades to schools in report cards.

Republican bids to expand charters and vouchers come at a time when a recent report by the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families shows the gaps between blacks and whites in Dane County are significantly larger than those statewide or nationally.

Bush is a major figure in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.

Step up to the «school choice» smorgasbord, where with Indiana phasing in one of the nation's most expansive school voucher programs and charter school options expanding (at least in urban areas), parents face a growing array of choices for where to send their kids to school.

Hunter highlighted work to expand charter school access and vouchers, and described his state's approval of the first parent trigger law, which is also supported by George Miller (D - CA), the ranking House education committee member.

It's not a coincidence that Republican / conservative policies ruled the deep red state of Louisiana during the same period that charters and vouchers expanded from New Orleans to the rest of the state.

To effect large - scale change, like implementing vouchers and expanding charter schools, Betsy DeVos will need to convince Congress to enact new legislation and to appropriate funds in ways that reflect her priorities.

With Republicans controlling the House and Senate, a politically savvy conservative ideologue leading the federal education department, a vice president who earned notoriety in his home state for expanding vouchers, charters, and battling teacher unions, not to mention a president - elect who initially asked creationist Jerry Falwell Jr. to head up his Department of Education, the stars have aligned for market - driven education advocates.

She has made clear her K - 12 priority is expanding charter schools — which are publicly funded but privately operated — and vouchers or voucher - like programs, which use public money to pay for private and religious schools in different ways.

Since Evers was first elected in 2009, Republicans have all but eliminated teachers unions» collective bargaining power, expanded the number of private voucher and independent charter schools, fought Evers» adoption of the Common Core State Standards and changed the way school success is measured.

No — they might strike but teachers indicated no interest in any systemic reform, like expanded charters or vouchers, that might replace the abominable Rahm and give someone else more control over schools.

The evaluation and compensation changes in Indiana came during a contentious 2011 legislative session in which hundreds of teachers protested laws restricting their collective bargaining rights, making it easier for charter schools to expand and introducing an expansive private school voucher system.

As Wagner reports, Republicans, who took control of the state legislature in 2010 and the governorship in 2012, are intent on expanding education options in the state by providing some parents with school vouchers to transfer their children to private schools and by increasing the number of charter schools in the state.

Many also are ideologically opposed and worry that an expanded voucher program could threaten the progress and growth of the city's traditional public and public charter schools.

The version approved by the Joint Finance Committee last week included flat funding for public schools, expanded private voucher schools attendance, continued teacher licensing, conversion of some Milwaukee schools to charter or private voucher schools, reduced transportation spending, huge slashing on the University of Wisconsin's funding, and elimination of 60 guard tower positions in the state's prisons.

DeVos sought to cut $ 9.2 billion from the department's budget of $ 68.2 billion, eliminating teacher training and college - prep programs for impoverished children while investing heavily to expand school choice through increasing funds for charter schools and possibly offering vouchers for private schools.

«Weingarten said rather than close schools and create charters and vouchers, Puerto Rico should get new community schools, expanded learning time for students, and new professional learning hubs for teachers.»

The choice program started in 2011, when Mitch Daniels was governor, and continued under Pence, who drove an effort to expand charter schools and loosen eligibility requirements to expand the voucher program's reach.

Many urban districts across the nation have expanded the proportion of charter schools; increased the percentage of teachers trained in alternate certification programs; widened attendance zones; adopted voucher programs; constructed new facilities; and changed their relationships with teachers unions.

Betsy DeVos has one mission at the Department of Education: to expand charter schools and lead the establishment of a federal voucher program — a program that would siphon public dollars meant for our public schools, and allow it to pad the pockets and budgets of private schools and private management companies.

Since then, we increased quality options for families with expanded public school choice, a needs - based voucher program, and Indiana's Charter School Board, making sure all parents — no matter where they live — have the ability to find a good school that meets their child's needs.