Sentences with phrase «including school choice activists»

Earlier this year, Dropout Nation argued that one way that school reformers — including school choice activists and Parent Power groups — could advance reform and expand school choice was to file lawsuits similar to school funding torts used for the past four decades by school funding advocates.

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Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

The school choice movement is made up of passionate individuals throughout the country and Louisiana, including the parents who make sacrifices for their children, teachers, administrators, activists, thought leaders and supporters.

Meanwhile there are reformers (including Common Core supporters and school choice activists) who want to backslide on subgroup accountability.

To be fair, I would ask you to conduct due diligence and read what Mercedes Schneider, a New Orleans teacher, education activist, and the author of three books on «education reform», including her most recent: School Choice: The End of Public Education?

Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.

A slew of anti-school choice activists, including the teachers union, state school boards association, and the state PTA, filed two separate legal challenges against the state's school choice laws, alleging that they violate the state constitution's historically anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funds from being expended at religious schools, and the state's «uniformity» clause.

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.