Sentences with phrase «from failing public schools»

Vouchers are necessary, it is asserted, to provide parents with the means of escape from failing public schools and, in so doing, stimulate government - run schools to improve.

[1]-RRB- In March 2013, Alabama's governor signed sweeping legislation giving tax credits to parents who transfer their children from a failing public school to a private school of their choice.

GOP strategists also like school choice because it adds a spark of positive energy to a 2014 campaign agenda that's awfully heavy on the negatives: no to Obamacare, no to minimum - wage hikes, no to gay marriage — but yes to rescuing struggling kids from failing public schools through the power of the free market.

Chief among her causes is school vouchers, government - funded coupons intended as an escape hatch to release students from failing public schools zoned by residence to attend a better private school of their choice.

Fewer than one percent of voucher students now come from failing public schools, and more than half never attended public school at all.

By using vouchers, state - or privately sponsored scholarships, or allowing a portion of schools» taxpayer funding to follow each student to schools their parents choose, students from underprivileged backgrounds can break free from failing public schools and access a quality education.

Student funds from failing public schools would follow students to the charter public schools that replace them, just as student funds follow students when they move to another public school in the district.

But school choice has the opportunity to do more than help parents choose the right school for their child; it can bolster an entire region of the state that for so long has suffered from failing public schools.

The expansions are stretching voucher programs far beyond the stated intent of rescuing poor families from failing public schools.

More than half the states in the nation now have some kind of publicly funded program to pay for students» private - school tuition, programs that proponents hail as offering an escape from failing public schools, and that critics say are starving public schools of needed resources.

Thus, the Voucher Programs that exist essentially offer parents the option to remove their children from failing public schools or public schools that can not meet the needs of the student, and instead, enroll them in private schools.

Citing a long list of recent laws that many argue will hurt public education, Ravitch anticipated a brain drain for the state thanks to bad policies, said that charters and vouchers do not save kids from failing public schools but instead pave the way for resegregation, and bemoaned the loss of teacher tenure.