Sentences with phrase «former voucher system»
Supporters of the tax - credit scholarship program say it is different from the state's former voucher system, which directly used public money to help pay for private school tuition.
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President Barack Obama and former education secretary Arne Duncan are both supporters of charter schools, and even progressive stalwart Senator Elizabeth Warren proposed a system of public school vouchers in a 2004 book.
Scott Jensen, a former Assembly speaker and senior adviser for the pro-voucher Wisconsin Federation for Children, said in February that the planned voucher expansion was «part of a nationwide civil rights movement that empowers parents, serves students, and creates a more equal education system.»
By 2001, however, while running against former West High School principal Libby Burmaster, who would go on to beat him, Evers had publicly opposed the expansion of vouchers beyond Milwaukee and said the system's level of financial and academic accountability must increase.
«I would distinguish between the role that high - performing public charters can play in a strong public education system as opposed to vouchers and for - profit charters,» John King, the former secretary of education under Obama told Chalkbeat this past summer.