Sentences with phrase «families public education dollars»

Choice programs give interested families public education dollars, or vouchers, to send their kids to private schools.

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Charter history is rife with stories about small - time crooks taking advantage of lax public oversight to steal dollars meant for education to enrich friends and family.

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

The right wing Walton Family Foundation gave over $ 4 million dollars to fund the destruction of public education in Milwaukee in 2014.

The State Department of Education, in collusion with non-educator administrators such as Steven Adamowski, have handed Achievement First millions in public tax payer dollars to experiment on children from poor families.

Critics say this lopsided exposure fueled Ms. DeVos's staunch support of privately run, publicly funded charter schools and voucher programs that allow families to take tax dollars from the public education system to private schools.

Trump pledged to allow families to «redirect education dollars to give parents the right to send their kid to the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school of their choice.»

Some educators say they are fueled partly by their war with Ducey over his latest expansion of a voucher - like program — a pioneering «education savings account» that allows virtually any family to get public dollars to pay for private school expenses.

There are also «education savings accounts» that provide families with public dollars to pay for private school tuition and expenses.

We strongly object to having our tax dollars suctioned out of public schools, where those hard - won rights apply, and spent to lure families into fly - by - night private schools, where all of the federal special education rights and protections disappear, to be replaced by nothing more binding than a warning of «buyer, beware!»

The bill reroutes millions of dollars from public schools to families who prefer private education or home - schooling.

«Private funders have been instrumental to charter school growth, but federal, state and local legislative bodies must also respond by investing a larger percentage of public education dollars to support the opening of new, high - quality charter schools to meet the demands of the families they serve.»

Generally speaking, town tuitioning allows students who live in towns that don't have district public schools to receive their per - pupil education tax dollars to pay tuition at a neighboring town's public school or a private school of their choice — sometimes even across state lines for families who live close to state borders.

«For every one dollar invested in high - quality, comprehensive programs supporting children and families from birth,» the platform says, «there is a $ 7 - $ 10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system and better health.»