Sentences with phrase «in school choice advocacy»

Patrick Wolf is a professor of education policy and holds an endowed chair in school choice in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, with financial ties to the Walton Foundation, a major player in school choice advocacy.

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But beyond personal choice, the Guardian reports that she started education advocacy work «in the early 2000s, when then New York mayor Michael Bloomberg proposed cutting the schools budget.»

«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

While school districts didn't see much benefit in touting NCLB's choice opportunities, several advocacy groups did.

Private - school lobbyists are also worried that partisan enmity stirred up by their advocacy of school choice could deny them participation in new education - reform programs, some sources say, and even make it difficult for them to influence next year's reauthorization of most major precollegiate - education programs.

The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings will host a live webcast of an event in conjunction with the release of its report, «Measuring the Influence of Education Advocacy: The Case of Louisiana's School Choice Legislation,» on Tues., Dec. 10 at 10 am.

John Schilling: AFC is the largest school choice advocacy organization in the country.

As I acknowledged earlier, expanding charter schools or other choice mechanisms certainly takes a lot of policy advocacy to get off the ground, often in the face of brutal political attacks.

In advocacy alone, incubators could ensure private schools are up to date on legislative changes that affect their sector — something critically important as more private school choice programs are created and expanded.

Her research explores the relationship between education, policy, and equality of opportunity through three policy strands: 1) the racial politics of public education, 2) the politics of school choice, marketization, and privatization, and, 3) the role of elite and community - based advocacy in shaping public education policies and research evidence utilization.

Unfortunately, too often that nuance gets lost in unflinching advocacy for, or opposition to, school choice.

«It took us 20 years to pass the first 20 private school — choice programs in America and in the 21st year we passed 7 new programs,» says Scott Jensen with the American Federation for Children (AFC), a school - choice advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «So we went from passing, on average, one each year, to seven in one fell swoop.»

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.»

What started as an exciting interest in public charter school performance eventually evolved into work at a research - based advocacy organization that collects data and publishes reports about educational choice and reform initiatives in K — 12 education.

I jumped at the opportunity to return this year and work to expand choice and charters in my hometown as the regional advocacy manager for the Northeast Charter Schools Network advocacy organization.

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.

From where they sit, DeVos» advocacy for advancing school choice, both as Chairman of American Federation for Children as well as in her philanthropy, should more than make up for such concerns.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

Bush's team at the Foundation for Excellence in Education pointed us to a compilation of 30 policy briefs and academic studies put together by EdChoice, a school choice advocacy group.

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The report reveals that AFC, a well - known national school choice advocacy organization, funneled more than $ 90,000 to the 2012 election campaigns of Republican and Democratic North Carolina lawmakers who support school choice, with the help of two local PACs in North Carolina.

The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll by StudentsFirst, a pro-school choice advocacy group run by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.

Over the years, one of the mysteries of my school choice advocacy has been the reluctance among many, including a large number of supposedly market sensitive business leaders, to understand and accept the dynamics of competition and how, in a choice environment, these dynamics will produce a supply of quality education alternatives to meet the demand while driving improvement in the public schools.

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This week, Brandon, a former High Point - area legislator who now heads the school choice advocacy group, Carolina CAN, told members of the right - leaning John Locke Foundation in Raleigh that charter supporters need to be more «forceful» on the issue in the coming days.

Jonathan Butcher, education director at the Goldwater Institute, a conservative advocacy group that promotes school choice, praised the study's methodology, and said he wasn't surprised that public school choice had failed to produce benefits in Chicago.

Mayor Villaraigosa has been an outstanding force in the education reform efforts in Los Angeles, a great support for advocacy efforts with his support of the Public School Choice initiative, and an advocate for school facilities under PropositiSchool Choice initiative, and an advocate for school facilities under Propositischool facilities under Proposition 39.

Conference participants will spend the day: learning from experts about issues facing DC's public charter schools, sharing innovations and best practices that are driving student outcomes, inspiring each other to engage in advocacy that strengthens our movement, focusing on equity so together we can achieve the goal of quality public school choices for all DC families.

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According to the pro-privatization advocacy group, Ed Choice, about 400,000 children in 29 states attend schools with the help of vouchers.

American Federation for Children is the nation's leading school choice advocacy organization and works in states across the country to help secure additional, high - quality educational options for families.

The American Federation for Children is the nation's leading school choice advocacy organization and works in states across the country to help secure additional, high - quality educational options for families.

DeVos chairs the American Federation for Children, the largest school choice advocacy group in the nation.

In a letter sent to DeVos last week, Warren said the nominee's advocacy for school choice, charter schools and school voucher programs should be a concern for supporters of public education.