Sentences with phrase «favor of school choice»

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.

Last spring, Rhee spoke in favor of school choice alongside Wisconsin Republican Gov. Scott Walker at an event hosted by an organization founded and funded by Michigan Republican activist and voucher proponent Betsy DeVos.

Courts continue to rule in favor of school choice programs, as North Carolina's Supreme Court ruled in favor of its relatively new and oversubscribed Opportunity Scholarship Program.

A few outlier cases that do not fit this pattern may get a disproportionate amount of attention, but the research consensus in favor of school choice as a general policy is clear and consistent.»

Trump spoke in favor of school choice when «properly done» and declared that «millions of poor, disadvantaged students are trapped in failing schools.»

When told that President Trump was strongly in favor of school choice, supporters were 42 percent more likely to support it.

(IF «SUPPORT») «If knowing that President Trump is also strongly in favor of school choice, making it a key policy issue in his presidential agenda, would that make you more or less likely to support the concept of school choice?»

American Federation for Children, an advocacy group that spends heavily in favor of school choice, spent nearly $ 1 million on Wisconsin races in 2014 and has spent more than $ 4.5 million since 2010 to elect pro-voucher candidates.

While it's true that the Republican platform has a plank in favor of school choice, there are many Democrats that I know who have the same belief.

We're proud to partner with the New England Charter School Network to stand in favor of school choice.

Legislators will go into the next legislative session with bipartisan majorities in favor of school choice in both houses.