Sentences with phrase «for school choice bills»

Republican heavy hitters — including Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia and House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas — kicked off a campaign last week for school choice bills.

Advocates for a school choice bill that faces a do - or - die vote this week crowded into the Legislative Office Building on Tuesday to make their case.

Trump calls education «the civil rights issue of our time» and asks for a school choice bill chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017 /

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Cuomo this month re-named the bill the Parental Choice in Education Act, which also includes tax credit provisions for teachers who purchase school supplies.

Cuomo's new bill, which he calls the Parental Choice in Education Act, includes $ 70 million in credits for parents who pay private school tuition.

City Councilmember Mark Treyger (D - Coney Island - Gravesend - Bensonhurst), chairman of the Council's Education Committee, said he is pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice for New York City schools chancellor, Richard Carranza.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Flanagan on Monday released three different bills for one -, two - and five - year extensions of mayoral control of the city's schools, with longer renewals tied to greater support for alternative educational choices.

For two years, Eva S. Moskowitz positioned herself as one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's most persistent foils: With a powerful signature issue — school choice — and a fearsome network of political supporters, Ms. Moskowitz was widely perceived as one of Mr. de Blasio's most dangerous potential obstacles to re-election.

But much major legislation failed to get through in time, including Shirley Williams» education bill, which would have extended parental choice, made school governors more representative and introduce maintenance grants for 16 - to - 18 year - olds.

Eventually, President Bush may use the bureaucratic resistance to public school choice to revive the proposal for private school vouchers that he dropped early in the negotiations over the education bill in 2001.

For what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino childrFor what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino childrfor disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos was a leading member of the school choice advocacy community, and Donald Trump has called for a congressional bill that would fund school choice for disadvantaged youth, stating that «families should be free to choose the public, private, charter, magnet, religious or home school that is right for them.»

On April 12, 2006, a group of 200 parents and children, organized by school choice advocate Donayle Whitmore - Smith and Bertha Gilkey Bonds of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, traveled to the state house to lobby representatives for the bill.

This change, which was added to the bill in the 11th hour (it was previously proposed and then reemerged as an amendment on final passage), is intended to promote private school choice, a goal that Congress had displayed little appetite for tackling head on.

Fourth, Congress could enact Senator Lamar Alexander's proposed «G.I. Bill for Children,» which would give needy K — 12 students grants (in participating states) the equivalent of Pell Grants with which to pay tuition at the private school of their choice.

The League's December 1988 report, «Chartered Schools = Choices for Educators + Quality for All Students,» became the basis for the bill that Reichgott introduced in January 1989.

JS: Last year 36 states and Congress introduced private - school choice bills, including 18 for education savings accounts.

A school - choice bill that morphs into legislation that tramples religious liberty or turns private schools into cookie - cutter versions of public schools would not be a win for «choice.»

I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.

In his address to a joint session of Congress in February, Trump called on Congress «to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth.»

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children,» he declared.

St Paul — Minnesota's Democratic - controlled Senate Finance Committee last week deleted from an omnibus education - aid bill Gov. Rudy Perpich's controversial open - enrollment plan, dealing a severe blow to the state's chances for a public - school choice plan.

Former Democratic Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton are both advocates for charter schools and school choice.

Moreover, in the spring of 2004, he signed a bill that will provide state higher education aid directly to students in the form of a voucher for use at the schools of their choice.

Sarah Shad Johnson, a parent of children in Charleston County Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.Schools and co-founder of Community Voice, says, «The timing of Secretary Duncan's visit comes at a critical time when our state legislators are discussing whether or not to support the adversarial Common Core State Standards, as well as bills regarding school choice, charter school expansion, and tax credits for private schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.schools; our State Superintendent of Education seems to be embracing a controversial stand on the teaching profession; and the focus here in Charleston County appears to be only on experimental, questionable, and expensive initiatives, as opposed to goals of increased learning opportunities.»

REACH Alliance Applauds Senate for Advancing School Choice Bill Sen. Piccola & Sen. Williams» Senate Bill 1 Mirrors Most of Governor's Education Reform Plan (Harrisburg, PA — October 26, 2011)-- Senate Bill 1, The Opportunity Scholarship Act, was approved -LSB-...]

Now that the Senate has passed the bill which the House agreed to yesterday, Illinois is poised to become the 26th state with private school choice and to have the 52nd program in the country, along with bolstered funding for charter students.

In the category of «private school choice,» there are now 41 programs in 19 states, plus Washington, DC, and state legislatures are continuing to introduce bills for new or expanded programs.

LFC also fights against bills and regulatory attacks that would create barriers for families in existing school choice programs.

Johnson sees the portrayal by Patrick and others of a dysfunctional public school system as a rhetorical ploy to advance narrow private interests, and he hopes that the Senate can keep the bill from coming to a vote where legislators can be pressured into a «for us or against us» position on school choice.

The organization also fight against bills and regulatory attacks that would create barriers for families in existing school choice programs.

A model bill for the «Parent Trigger Act» and much of school choice and privatization legislation is designed and promoted by the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC, which coordinates with the State Policy Network and has become notorious for promoting «stand your ground» legislation and propagating climate change denial.

Senate Bill 1 includes scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice which will be available to low - income students attending the worst - performing schools.

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stSchool Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stChoice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stschool to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stschool of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the stchoice, provided the school has room for the stschool has room for the student.

This bill doesn't create choice for parents, but rather choice for private schools, which can maintain their admission criteria and attendance rules.

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REACH Alliance Applauds Gov. Corbett, State Legislature for their Commitment to School Choice HB 761 Creates Education Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit Program, Expands EITC (Harrisburg, PA — June 30 2012)-- House Bill 761, the Omnibus Tax Reform Code -LSB-...]

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Ravitch, a nationally renowned expert on education who was appointed to key educational posts in both the George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations, was once one of the strongest advocates for more educational accountability standards and a strong advocate of choice schools.

«I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African - American and Latino children.

(Harrisburg, PA — May 3, 2011)-- Hundreds of students, teachers, parents and legislators gathered at the Capitol Tuesday to show their support for the Educational Improvement Tax Credit (EITC) Program and to advocate for passage of Senate Bill 1, legislation that would greatly expand school choice options in Pennsylvania.

Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senate Republican Education Chairman Jeffrey Piccola and Senate Democratic Whip Anthony Williams, would greatly increase school choice options for families by creating school choice opportunity scholarships for low and middle income families across Pennsylvania and increase funding for the EITC program.

Public school districts such as Solanco have fiercely opposed current legislation, Senate Bill 1, which includes scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice.

On June 17, 1994, Gov. Fife Symington signed into law House Bill 2002 — bringing charter - school education to Arizona and ushering - in a new era of school choice for parents and accountability for schools.

REACH remains committed to pursuing passage of Senate Bill 1, which provides opportunity scholarships for both public - to - public and public - to - private school choice.

Naming North Carolina as one state of several where new «parent choice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public educchoice» laws have been passed, the Waltons are putting even more money into the Alliance for School Choice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public educChoice, on organization that provides model legislation for state lawmakers to use as they introduce bills that would create alternatives to public education.

With multiple school choice and education reform bills already signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant, we can report that this was a great session for the children of Mississippi!

Widely viewed as the most sweeping school choice bill in the country, SB 302 then offers parents about $ 5,100 in per - pupil state funding to pay for tuition at private and religious schools.