Sentences with phrase «for voucher advocates»

Second, and more troublesome for voucher advocates, a court might conclude that the passage of time or a more recent rewriting of a state constitution has cleansed whatever improper motive lay behind the original adoption of the Blaine amendment.

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Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith - based organizations (FBOs).

I'm a huge advocate for having pets in your home, and I can vouch from first - hand experience how it has made a positive impact on my children and family.

The Clinton trust campaign is turning to powerful advocates, chief among them President Barack Obama, to vouch for the Democratic candidate shadowed by an FBI investigation on the brink of her presidential nomination.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

With Donald Trump in the White House and long - time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos installed as his education secretary, arguments for and against vouchers and scholarship tax credits are burning white hot.

She has been a fierce advocate for school vouchers.

For the most part, the evidence from this study tends to support the claims of voucher advocates and to contradict those of critics.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

The most consistent advocates for school vouchers in America are low - income black and Hispanic parents who live in central cities.

As an advocate of state funding for religious schools, Charles Glenn supports the use of school vouchers.

With the nomination of Betsy DeVos — the soon - to - be former chair of the American Federation for Children and a lifelong school - choice advocate — as the next secretary of education, many folks are now trying to understand for the very first time the role vouchers and private school choice play in the reform universe.

Some advocate authorizers for schools participating in voucher programs, an approach that would respect private school independence while maintaining public accountability.

In recent years, choice advocates cheered because Indiana and Louisiana adopted new voucher programs and because charter schools — boosted by President Obama's Race to the Top program and movies like Waiting for Superman — continued to expand and attract supporters.

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

Some states adopted charter laws in no small part because choice advocates pushed so hard for vouchers.

Educational choice advocates can issue three cheers for the court's decision, but the voucher program itself deserves only one.

Advocates for school choice might be shocked to see how badly the country's experiment with vouchers failed.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

Simply put, that means we need to advocate for vouchers and tax credits and other programs — state and federal — that can help families obtain the high - quality education they want and deserve for their children.

Second, in what is sometimes referred to as the «Brennan strategy,» named for the architect of the Cleveland voucher program, voucher advocates need to structure their proposals as limited pilot programs targeted at low - income families with children in failing schools.

This is also an important topic because DeVos founded and now directs a national organization advocating for vouchers and other private school choice programs.

The most interesting thing about Moe's challenge, however, is that it was not raised by voucher advocates during the period from 1993 through 1998, when support for vouchers as measured by both questions was climbing steadily.

In Schuck's words, voucher advocates must build an «army of black and brown mothers who will march on the capitol steps to demand a quality education for their kids.»

In the group's own words: «The American Federation for Children is the leading national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts.»

President Richard Nixon adopted a «southern strategy» to bring white southerners and northern Catholics into the Republican Party through advocating for vouchers for private school tuition.

I wrote previously about how Lee has been a staunch advocate of using public money for private schools by way of vouchers.

Brad Bumsted reports: He's an advocate of school choice — providing tuition vouchers for children to attend private or -LSB-...]

Two articles illustrate Louisiana's post-Bobby Jindal political landscape for school choice — Times - Picayune: Louisiana school vouchers face tougher time with John Bel Edwards in office The Advocate: Who stayed?

Advocates for the proposal, including GOP Sen. Alberta Darling of River Hills, have said not providing students with disabilities the same opportunity to receive school vouchers as other students is unfair.

The group's self - described mission is «promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts.»

Advocates for public, charter and private voucher schools have been unable to reach agreement on numerous issues, including whether they all should take the same test to measure student performance, how that material should be presented, and whether any should face sanctions.

This may be the fantasy of voucher advocates, but it's a nightmare for public schools and the families they serve.

In the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, private school advocates tried to build support for tuition vouchers, payments of public tax funds for private school tuition.

Advocates for school choice in the US (especially for vouchers) also argue that private schools are more adept at providing education to parents with a variety of different academic, vocational or religious preferences for their children.

Joel Ebert and Dave Boucher of The Tennessean reported this weekend on a beach vacation for five Tennessee lawmakers hosted by a prominent school voucher advocate.

He's an advocate of school choice — providing tuition vouchers for children to attend private or parochial schools.

Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher program along with billions of dollars in cuts to public education.

In January, Fordham released a «toolkit» for policymakers that advocated requiring all private schools to administer the state test (i.e. — Common Core) and publish the results as a condition of accepting school vouchers or even tax - credit scholarships.

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

State Superintendent Tony Evers on Monday called for the new U.S. secretary of education to use her bully pulpit in the Trump administration's Cabinet to advocate for all schools, not just the charter and voucher schools she has championed.

They plan to lead the committee and work with the Department of Public Instruction and groups representing teachers, school boards, administrators and advocates for charter and private voucher schools.

Now, DeVos is President - elect Donald Trump's pick for U.S. education secretary, and observers expect her to lessen the federal role in public education and vigorously advocate to expand access to voucher and charter schools in other states just like she has done here.

For instance, to entice prospective parents, school voucher advocates often employ rhetoric about students being «trapped in public schools» without giving tangible evidence that the private schools the voucher gives them access to are any better.

DeVos thanked Pocan for the question, then launched into a history of vouchers in Wisconsin, dropping the name of Annette Polly Williams, the late Democratic state lawmaker from Milwaukee who was an early voucher advocate.

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The protest was paid for by the American Federation for Children, a national group that advocates for tax - credit scholarships, vouchers and charter schools.

DeVos, a billionaire who advocates for private - school vouchers and has no professional experience in public education, has been one of President Trump's most controversial Cabinet nominees.