Sentences with phrase «for school choice candidates»

Time and time again we have seen strong support for school choice candidates, but the 2016 election has shown this support is stronger than ever before.

The American Federation for Children celebrates Oklahoma's primary election results as voters turned out in support for school choice candidates.

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A Woodbury dentist and past president of the Syosset School Board will likely be the Democratic Party choice as candidate for Oyster Bay supervisor this fall, Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs said Thursday.

Mr Atta - Boateng said after texting, candidates would have to wait till October 21, 2015 (about two weeks) to print their admission forms from the Internet for submission to their schools of choice after which they were expected to report for school on October 28, 2015.

Marc Herman, a Woodbury dentist and past president of the Syosset School Board, will likely be the Democratic party choice as candidate for Oyster Bay supervisor this fall, Nassau Democratic chairman Jay Jacobs said.

An at - large voting system for electing members to the East Ramapo school board — long dominated by Orthodox Jews whose children attend private yeshivas — has prevented public school parents who are largely black and Latino from electing candidates of their choice, according to a lawsuit filed by NYCLU.

In 2012, Mitchell Tischler challenged Hikind for his seat in both the Democratic primary and in the general election as a School Choice Party candidate.

March 30, 2018 — As presidential candidate, Donald Trump declared the Common Core a «total disaster» while promising to be the «nation's biggest cheerleader for school choice.»

Paul E. Peterson talks with John Schilling of the American Federation for Children, which promotes school choice by promoting legislation and trying to help elect candidates who support choice.

This week's election of a teachers» union - backed slate of school board candidates in Douglas County, Colorado is a major setback for school choice.

But the group lauded presidential candidates generally for focusing on school choice.

Throughout his political career, Owens had strongly supported expanded public and private school choice in Colorado, going so far as to publicly endorse pro-voucher candidates for school boards.

Republican Presidential candidates claim to be for choice, including vouchers, charters and opportunity scholarships, and they also claim to be for local control of schools.

The Tennessee Federation for Children, the state's voice for educational choice, celebrates Tennessee's primary election results as voters turned out in support of school choice candidates.

In relation to the LAUSD school board election, this is the Los Angeles Times» endorsement of a school board member's re-election — yes, the candidate the Times SUPPORTS: «We consider [Monica] Garcia a poor choice for the school board, and we always have.

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The poll also found strong support for locating charter schools statewide, support for making educational scholarship accounts available to all students, and that voters are more likely to support a candidate for the legislature if they support 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.

She also founded, supported, and served as Chairman of the American Federation for Children, an organization that supports school choice, and candidates for office that support school choice.

While President Trump was still a candidate, he vowed that his administration would allocate $ 20 billion to support vouchers for school choice, a likely source being Title 1 funds that currently go to about two - thirds of America's public schools.

«We're encouraged that independent observers of public education share our support for legislative and school board candidates across California who support parental choice and who are working to provide high quality education to all children,» said Gary Borden, Executive Director of CCSA Advocates.

Trump also said he would support merit pay for teachers and use the bully pulpit afforded by the presidency to advocate for candidates who run on making «school choice» more widespread.

Most notably, the foundation funded the American Federation for Children, an advocacy group focused on supporting school - choice initiatives and supporting candidates who back school choice.

These victories add to a number of key victories in Oklahoma this campaign season for candidates who support school choice.

In April, all four on the Mayor's slate for the school board — not one of them with a child in public school — defeated a slate of candidates from the teachers» union that has long battled the Mayor over school choice.

As a candidate, and following his election, President Trump outlined an impressive vision for school choice in America.

Good Morning It was a clean sweep for LFC supported candidates in the Orleans Parish School Board races with three pro-school choice candidates winning their contests.

The Oklahoma Federation for Children PAC supported 15 candidates from both parties who are strong on education and school choice.

It's bad enough that Mr. Obama enthusiastically endorsed Mr. de Blasio despite the candidate's commitment to reducing educational choices for poor families stuck with Gotham's lowest - performing schools.

The Louisiana Federation for Children (LFC), the state's voice for educational choice, congratulates its endorsed candidates, all who were victorious in Orleans Parish school board races in which the Louisiana Federation for Children Action Fund invested.

It was a clean sweep for LFC supported candidates in the Orleans Parish School Board races with three pro-school choice candidates winning their contests.

She has founded and led national organizations that lobby for reform legislation and support school choice candidates for office.

Decrying lawmakers who are against public education and favor school choice initiatives, Johnson explained how Pastors for Texas Children works to encourage lawmakers to support public schools and how his group and others are aiming to get education - friendly candidates elected.

That was a springboard for a nationwide strategy that backs legislators, candidates, and initiatives that aim to increase school choice, through the organization DeVos founded in 2010, the American Federation for Children.

Democratic and Republican candidates supporting school choice were successful across the state, showing that Florida's families believe it is their right to choose the best high quality school for their child, whether public, private, charter or virtual.

«Voters turned out to the polls in support of school choice and candidates who support educational options for children in all parts of the country.

Governor's Charter Academy pulled in Governor Rick Scott and Democratic Congressional Candidate Al Lawson for the event, as the school's supporters highlighted the often - repeated mantra of school choice.

He was the first candidate for governor in any state with the courage to openly run on a platform of school choice.

And then [CEO of Green Dot] Marco Petruzzi and [onetime school board candidate and Parent Revolution Executive Director] Ben Austin got up to the microphone, the first public speakers that day, and introduced Public School Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schschool board candidate and Parent Revolution Executive Director] Ben Austin got up to the microphone, the first public speakers that day, and introduced Public School Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schSchool Choice [a mechanism for low performing schools to gain greater autonomy from the district, sometimes through becoming charter schools].

The numbers, distributed at recent speeches by Mecklenburg County attorney Richard Vinroot, a former Charlotte mayor and GOP gubernatorial candidate who's a major figure in North Carolina's school choice movement, claim that the state's charters serve a greater percentage of students who qualify for free and reduced lunch as well as special education classes than do traditional public schools.