Not exact matches
Even if government accountability is not the norm for government programs, some people may still
favor requiring
choice schools to take the state test and comply with other components
of the high - regulation approach to
school choice, such
as mandating that
schools accept voucher amounts
as payment in full, prohibiting
schools from applying their own admissions requirements, and focusing programs on low - income students in low - performing
schools.
When Bill Clinton was governor
of Arkansas, he was in
favor of a
choice among private
schools as well
as public
schools.
The day before, I had called for the elimination
of assigned
schools in
favor of universal
choice — a nearly unforgivable act
as far
as many suburban parents are concerned.
By making equal opportunity a central theme
of the movement, organizations such
as the BAEO, the Friedman Foundation (established by Milton and Rose Friedman and now known
as EdChoice), Democrats for Education Reform, and other groups in
favor of school choice have put Republican support at risk by emphasizing the role that vouchers can play in opening
school doors to the disadvantaged.
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.
The Supreme Court, in cases culminating in Agostini [v. Felton], has established the general principle that state educational assistance programs do not have the primary effect
of advancing religion if those programs provide public aid to both sectarian and nonsectarian institutions (1) on the basis
of neutral, secular criteria that neither
favor nor disfavor religion; and (2) only
as a result
of numerous private
choices of the individual parents
of school - age children.
Even
as a commission spent the past two years planning for the largest
school district merger in the nation's history — the former Memphis city district and an adjacent suburban system became the unified 140,000 - student, 222 -
school Shelby County district on July 1 — the landscape
of governance within the legacy city
school system was changing rapidly to
favor parental
choice and more autonomous
schools.
And like her boss, President Trump, wants deep cuts —
as in billions
of dollars to public
school programs, in
favor of school choice.
While charter
school expansion is part
of an education privatization movement
favored by Republicans in particular, who say families need more
choice when it comes to kids» educational options, the movement has been dogged by controversy
as several charter
schools have abruptly closed almost
as soon
as they opened due to financial and governance problems.
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of recognized Top
Choice Award and Consumer
Choice Award
as the most
favored Driving
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