Sentences with phrase «fought for school choice»
Those who have fought for school choice should recognize free community college for what it really is, and instead push for reforms that expand options and choice — not limit them.
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The Dallas Morning News quoted Patrick in an address to the Dallas Regional Chamber as saying, «I intend to fight for school choice session after session after session.»
That's why I'm fighting for school choice.
Her story is unique, but she's also one of the tens of thousands of New York parents fighting for school choice, parents who want their kids to have a great education — parents who will stop at nothing to make that happen.
While the fight for school choice rages across the nation, perhaps no better example exists than that of the Windy City.
Most important, we must continue to fight for school choice to ensure that each and every student is given the opportunity to enhance and develop their individual skills in a setting that will allow them to blossom.
Not exact matches
«Elected leaders, community members and grassroots supporters know that John Liu is the only choice to stand up to the Republican status quo and fight for good jobs, affordable housing and better schools for every community in the 11th District.»
And let's be honest: It's a tough political fight to make the case for more money for schools of choice alone.
«Today's reauthorization of the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program should send a strong message to parents across the country who seek to fight for their children's rights: If you fight for your children and you never give up, the road will not always be easy, but in the end, justice will prevail,» said Virginia Walden Ford, executive director of D.C. Parents for School Choice.
I taught Textiles and Art for 34 years in a Derby city school and latterly had to fight for my subject particularly after Michael Gove restricted GCSE choice to one Arts subject.
One interpretation of the emphasis on developing the common core curriculum is that these debates provide a convenient diversion from potentially more intractable fights over bigger reform ideas like using improved teacher evaluations for personnel decisions, expanded school choice, or enhanced accountability systems.
Choice makes it unnecessary for parents who dislike a school's instructional program to fight the parents and teachers for whom the program works.
Congressional Republicans are shifting their school choice campaign to the tax code, and conservative groups are lining up behind them for a fight with an uncooperative Clinton administration.
Some of these are the same people who have made once - esoteric educational questions — like school discipline, collegiate Title IX policies governing due process, school choice, teacher evaluation, and determination of testing subgroups — into hero's journeys defined by bitter battles between those fighting «for the kids» (their side) and the forces of malice (the other side).
The main sources are the very reforms that the unions have been fighting against for the past two decades: school choice and school accountability.
D.C. Parents for School Choice ran television advertisements targeting key senators including Massachusetts Democrat Edward M. Kennedy, accusing him of fighting efforts to help black children and comparing him to segregationist Bull Connor, the police chief in Birmingham, Alabama, who used violent tactics to disperse civil - rights demonstrators in the 1960s.
The only principals who stay in such schools are the heroes, who will fight for children whatever the odds, and the incompetent, who have no choice.
Fieler, a prominent social conservative who has spent big in the past to fight gay marriage, said he has directed his organization to spend $ 500,000 organizing the Common Core opposition and connecting it to his think tank's long - standing drive for school choice.
Opponents have hamstrung school - choice programs at every turn: fighting voucher programs in legislative chambers and courtrooms; limiting per - pupil funding so tightly that it's impractical for new schools to come into being; capping the number of charter schools; and regulating and harassing them into near conformity with conventional schools.
These legal challenges stalled reform and kept the school choice movement fighting for a clear identity.
«We have been fighting the battle for school choice in Pennsylvania for over two decades.
LFC also fights against bills and regulatory attacks that would create barriers for families in existing school choice programs.
The organization also fight against bills and regulatory attacks that would create barriers for families in existing school choice programs.
Every day I read, share and learn from articles, blogs, and op - eds written by very sharp, intelligent and caring people who spend their days fighting for educational equity, school choice and better quality schools.
They fought expansively for school choice,» said Rick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
Additionally, we are thankful for the support of the Laborers Union Local 872 membership, the Nevada Pastors Alliance for School Choice and Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce in fighting for educational choice programs in the state.&Choice and Las Vegas Latin Chamber of Commerce in fighting for educational choice programs in the state.&choice programs in the state.»
He declared that it should be offensive to us as educators that we must fight for something (school choice) that should have been given to us at birth.
A Great Night For School Choice In Mississippi August 5, 2015 by Brett Kittredge Last night, four legislative incumbents in Desoto County who were aligned with the education status quo and fought against student - centered education reforms fell to conservative challengers supported by Empower PAC.
Rather than fighting for an increase in minimum wage for all, as both the St. Paul and Minneapolis teachers unions have done, for example, Minnesota Comeback talks about «schools as the unit of change,» where the lucky will land — through the wonders of school choice — in the right kind of life - altering spot.
She is a former state legislator where she served on the Senate Education Committee and fought successfully to expand educational options for Louisiana's children by authoring and supporting numerous pieces of school choice legislation.
They fought expansively for school choice,» says Rick Hess, a resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
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The organization also fights against bills and regulatory attacks that would create barriers for families in existing school choice programs.
Allying with suburban white conservatives, Williams and her coalition fought for and helped pass the most sweeping school choice law at the time.
We hope that the hundreds of teachers and parents who helped submit those applications will continue to participate in the Public School Choice process, and continue their work to fight for the needs of their communities and children.»
Today, the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, named in honor of Milton and his wife and collaborator Rose, fights America's educational status quo, calling it immoral for sticking the poorest kids from the worst neighborhoods in the worst schools.
For a few years now, the town of Croydon, NH (population 651) has been fighting with the governor and state board of education over their school choice policy.
In a world where millions of students, especially low - income and urban kids, are getting a poor education, teachers unions and school bureaucracies have been fighting choice programs for more than two decades.
The only aim for those of us fighting to expand school choice and supporting a federal education tax credit is to give a lot more children access to the school of their parents» choice.
Paula White, NJ State Director for Democrats for Education Reform, added: «Democrats for Education Reform understands that the fight for high - quality public school choice is a crucial part of a larger, comprehensive effort to champion ALL of America's public school children, irrespective of their background or circumstance.
I applaud the Parkers and all of the parents fighting for real school choice.
The American Federation for Children and state affiliate, Arizona Federation for Children, will continue our work locally to fight for the rights of the 67,000 children currently using private school choice programs and the over 170,000 children attending charter schools, as well as work to ensure that one day all Arizona families are empowered to choose the best school for their children.
Ann Duplessis is a former state legislator where she served on the Senate Education Committee and fought successfully to expand educational options for Louisiana's children by authoring and supporting numerous pieces of school choice legislation.
On this week's Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle casts a gimlet eye on the lawsuit filed by traditionalists in Florida against a school choice program and explains why reformers must fight zealously to defend and expand options for all of our children.
School choice is something for which all Americans should fight.
Other states can learn from Pennsylvania's hard - fought experience to provide school choice to more families, as well as their dedication to keep on fighting for kids.
She argues that school reformers assume that schools can do more to address poverty than is realistic, that accountability policies encourage narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test, that vouchers have accumulated no significant evidence of effectiveness, that «virtual charter schools» are a ripoff of taxpayers, and that there are more effective policy solutions that are far from test - based accountability and «school choice» policies: social services for poor families, early childhood education, protecting the autonomy of teachers and elected school boards, reducing class sizes, eliminating for - profit companies and chains from operating charter schools, and aggressively fighting racial and socioeconomic segregation in schools.
Ann Duplessis is a former Louisiana state legislator where she served on the Senate Education Committee and fought successfully to expand educational options for Louisiana's children by authoring and supporting numerous pieces of school choice legislation.
And this new school year brings significant excitement for more than 1,000 new Connecticut charter school students just months after their families fought and won a battle for a spot in these schools of choice.
«However successful we were in advocating for school choice in committee this week — the fight is long from over.