Sentences with phrase «many school choice supporters»
School choice supporters, including hundreds of private school students in crisp uniforms, filled Washington, D.C.'s Freedom Plaza last May to protest a congressional decision to eliminate the city's federally funded school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click here).
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School choice supporters are split over the program's strict accountability provisions, however, which some say represent over-regulation by the state but which others claim are on par with the expectations for traditional public and charter schools.
According to school choice supporters, such as Marquette University professor and former Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) superintendent Howard Fuller, MPCP saves the taxpayers considerable cash, as the voucher is smaller than per - pupil spending by MPS.
Like most school choice supporters, I support public schools whenever they work effectively.
Among historically united Milwaukee school choice supporters, opinion varies sharply on the most sweeping regulatory changes in the program's history, which were enacted in July, described here.
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Education Week's Politics K - 12 reported that Rob Goad, an aide to US Rep. Luke Messer, a school choice supporter, will be helping Trump with a more complete plan.
Across the country, school choice supporters have planned over 5,500 events to celebrate and advocate for increased educational options for students and families.
While supporters of traditional public schools decry the changes, school choice supporters argued Tuesday that North Carolina is now doing a better job of meeting the needs of individual students.
School choice supporters are urged to visit the REACH Alliance & Foundation's website to learn more about school choice and what they can do to help the movement in Pennsylvania.
Ratteray was also a school choice supporter, and wrote a rousing op - ed in the New York Times supporting it.
Maddox, a Black Lives Matter and school choice supporter comments on why she chose to send her daughter to a charter school:
Support Betsy DeVos For Secretary Of Education January 2, 2017 by Grant Callen As education reformers and school choice supporters, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to express support for one of our own to become the U.S. Secretary of Education.
The controversy comes after a gaggle of school choice supporters clad in «I Trust Parents» t - shirts descended on the legislative building in recent days.
The viciousness toward DeVos is animated by several things: She is rich, a school choice supporter, a Christian, a school choice supporter, a Republican, and most of all, a school choice supporter.
«Our goal was to elect as many school choice supporters as possible, so we focused on races we thought would be close, where our efforts would make a difference,» he says.
Walker has been a popular governor for school choice supporters — American Federation for Children chairwoman Betsy DeVos and husband Dick have contributed about $ 250,000 to Walker in recent years, according to the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
Chalkbeat School choice supporters downplay new voucher research, saying schools are more than a test score
Hundreds of school choice supporters filled the State Capitol yesterday as part of National School Choice Week.
«The governor's education reform plan provides a clear agenda for school choice supporters in Pennsylvania, and Senate Bill 1 achieves many of those objectives,» said Otto V. Banks, executive director of REACH Alliance.
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Nevertheless, the proposal, which passed last year amid often - bitter clashes over K - 12 reforms in the N.C. General Assembly, found a welcome audience among school choice supporters and Republican leadership in Raleigh.
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Klåvus is an ardent school choice supporter who would like to see all schools in Sweden become free schools.
In theory, vouchers and other private school choice programs open up the same menu of educational opportunities to all, according to DeVos and other school choice supporters.
In the United States, many staunch school choice supporters are alarmed by the Trump administration's goal of expanding school choice without any accompanying plans for tougher accountability.
School choice supporters to ring in National School Choice Week 2015 with Official Kickoff at Florida Theatre, January 23, 2015.
More than 1,500 school choice supporters rallied at the Ohio Statehouse today to encourage Ohio's elected leaders to support empowering Ohio families and students with educational options.
That's why school choice supporters champion open enrollment policies, which allow parents to choose from any traditional public school, regardless of zone or district.
The proposed legislation would also allow for the creation of virtual charters in Puerto Rico — a particularly contentious type of online school, evenamong school choice supporters.
When a new wave of school choice supporters were swept into power at the state level in November 2010, Heartland saw an opportunity to put the Parent Trigger idea on steroids by bringing it to ALEC, the controversial corporate «bill mill.»
School choice supporters started the New Year with a first - round victory against a lawsuit that demonstrates how desperate school choice opponents are to halt meaningful education reform.
But, as is the American way, school choice supporters have turned adversity into an opportunity to expand educational freedom in a way that will save taxpayers money and in a manner that is entirely constitutional.
Bethlehem officials noted at the meeting that President - elect Donald Trump and his pick for education secretary, Betsy Devos, are school choice supporters.
All across the country, school choice supporters are advancing bold initiatives that enhance quality educational opportunities.
Even school choice supporters acknowledge this change will be ineffective in helping families without means to choose the private school they wish for their children.
It's the opinion of this and other school choice supporters that public education exists to fund the best possible education for every child, whether that's at a district school, private school, parochial school, home school, or other service provider.
Even if they disagree with the general assessment of the danger that vouchers pose to private schools, school choice supporters need the most powerful coalition they can muster to pass and defend school choice legislation.
«This year, school choice supporters in both Washington, D.C. and Wisconsin will be making bold moves in creating and expanding opportunities for parents.
The American Federation for Children is proud to defend and expand the ranks of school choice supporters in the Wisconsin Legislature.
While that is not surprising, it often is overlooked by school choice supporters; as school choice becomes a live issue in a state, liberal elites tend to drive up liberal and Democratic opposition to school choice and conservative leadership drums up conservative and Republican support.
That's why today — Thursday, March 2 — school choice supporters and constituents will be block walking in Rep. Huberty's area.
In other states, the launch and expansion of voucher programs should be used by school choice supporters as an opportunity to team up with school data quality activists such as the Data Quality Campaign to push for the overhaul of existing data systems and the launch of new, more - comprehensive systems.
Good Morning From The 74: Jeanne Allen, founder and CEO of the Center for Education Reform, talks about being a school choice supporter during the current presidential campaign.
That claim has outraged Jindal and other conservative school choice supporters, including former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and House Republican leadership.
State lawmakers established the Innovative School District program (a favorite of school choice supporters) last year, pointing to longtime struggles in some North Carolina schools, most of which primarily serve children from poor families.
School choice supporters held a rally at the Capitol in Madison in February 2005.
Izumi makes the case that while many school choice supporters rely on academic school performance data to show that public schools are failing, there are many other equally important reasons to support it.
At the same time, McDowell's case has also brought up an argument that this is another «predictable» outcry among school choice supporters — who can rally around another case of a poor mother looking to improve education for their kids — who gloss over the more - complex problem of providing education for children of the homeless.