Because of your calls, emails, and active engagement on social media, your legislators heard the message loud and clear: that parents
want more education options.
Still, as constituents and politicians demand more accountability from schools, and dissatisfied parents seek
more education options for their children, charter schools have become the most identifiable and popular effort for school reform and improvement.
Now, in 2012, it is still not clear whether the legislative advance of school - choice bills in 2011
made more education options available or simply ushered in a bevy of new lawsuits.
But whereas reformers want to address poverty by giving
families more education options, Weingarten blames capitalism and wants to raise your taxes because she thinks that simply throwing yet more taxpayer money at a broken, failed system will make kids better educated.
There are a variety of options that empower parents to make the best decision for their kids
including more education options, education scholarship accounts, and tax credit scholarships.
We also believe that all schools in New Jersey and education in New Jersey will improve
if more education options are made available to our parents and children.
Families certainly have
more education options for their children than they did 20 years ago, but the growth of high - quality alternatives to the neighborhood school has often been constrained by geography: a student may not live within a reasonable distance of a desirable charter school or may lack reliable transportation to a school of choice if the district does not provide it.
We need to give
them more education options, like charter schools or tax credits for private or parochial schools» — could come from the mouth of Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo.
This is a significant win for children and families who are desperate for
more education options.
No matter what school district you're currently enrolled in, you have
more education options than just the in - district schools.
Giving parents
more education options, especially parents who are less affluent, increases the likelihood of finding the best school match for their child's learning needs.