Sentences with phrase «of school choice supporters»

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.

The American Federation for Children is proud to defend and expand the ranks of school choice supporters in the Wisconsin Legislature.

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.»

Hundreds of school choice supporters filled the State Capitol yesterday as part of National School Choice Week.

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.

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While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).

School choice: Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat who is the former superintendent of Denver Public Schools and a supporter of the charter school sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfoSchool choice: Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat who is the former superintendent of Denver Public Schools and a supporter of the charter school sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfSchools and a supporter of the charter school sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfoschool sector, pointed out that many charter schools are underperfschools are underperforming.

Another independent expenditure (or IE) group, New Yorkers for Independent Action weighed in on behalf of CM Cabrera who is a staunch supporter of school choice, charter schools and education tax credits for individuals and corporations that donate to public, private and parochial schools.

In the most recent election, Mr. Cuomo raised more than $ 2 million from supporters of charter schools and school choice, from their companies or from their families.

For two years, Eva S. Moskowitz positioned herself as one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's most persistent foils: With a powerful signature issue — school choice — and a fearsome network of political supporters, Ms. Moskowitz was widely perceived as one of Mr. de Blasio's most dangerous potential obstacles to re-election.

Second, scholarship tax - credit laws enable supporters of school choice to organize so that they can more effectively fight harmful regulations: Scholarship organizations can help both scholarship recipients and the donors mobilize against potentially harmful legislation.

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 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 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 school voucher program after the next school year (to see additional images of this event please click school year (to see additional images of this event please click here).

Howard Fuller talks with EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

In a flurry of press conferences and calls to choice supporters, Spellings and the White House unveiled a plan to incorporate private - school vouchers into NCLB.

The leading supporters of private school choice in California say they will wait until 1998 to renew their campaign to put a tuition - voucher proposal on the statewide ballot.

Whatever their agendas, however, most supporters of school choice build their political case on the virtues of competition for public education as a whole.

EdNext's Marty West asks Howard Fuller about his reaction to the election results, his thoughts on Betsy DeVos, and what supporters of school choice can do now.

Also in these ranks: leaders like former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick (Milton Academy and Harvard), former Tennessee congressman Harold Ford, Jr. (St. Albans and UPenn) and, of course, U.S. Senator Cory Booker, the lone public school graduate among these (Northern Valley Regional in affluent Bergen County and Stanford), who has also been the most vocal supporter of school choice.

Supporters of government vouchers that would allow students to attend schools of their choice got some practical tips here at the Christian Coalition's annual «Road to Victory» conference.

Critics of testing will take no comfort from the findings of the 2015 Education Next poll — but neither will supporters of the Common Core State Standards, school choice, merit pay, or tenure reform.

If the U.S. Supreme Court approves the Cleveland program, choice supporters in Maine could have their case reheard to reinstate the eligibility of religious schools.

By 2005 Pisces was the biggest single supporter of Teach for America, a nonprofit that has, improbably, made teaching in poverty - ridden urban schools one of the most popular career choices of students at Ivy League colleges.

Private - school - choice supporters (among the bedrock of the reform universe writ large, as their advocacy typically crosses sectors and supports the work of those reforming school districts as well — support that is, incidentally, infrequently returned) have two general overriding philosophies.

I am a fierce supporter of school choice — and that includes vouchers, tax credits, opportunity scholarships and all the other devices that make private schools part of the choice equation — and I am broadly on team two, believing we have a moral obligation to empower parents with more choices and greater freedom in how they choose to educate their child.

The ouster of Rep. Hoskins as chair of the caucus signaled to the Democratic Party and its supporters that caucus members were foursquare against school choice.

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

Supporters of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice anticipate a friendlier climate with President - elect Donald Trump's selection of school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos to serve as secretary of Education.

December 7, 2016 — Supporters of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice anticipate a friendlier climate with President - elect Donald Trump's selection of school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos to serve as secretary of Education.

The role of charter alternative schools like Sunshine — publicly funded but managed by for - profit companies — is likely to grow under the new U.S. Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, an ardent supporter of school choice.

DeVos is a «strong supporter of school choice» with «limited experience with public education,» as NPR's Eric Westervelt has reported:

Yet the changes are evolutionary rather than revolutionary, often less dramatic than many supporters of school choice had hoped.

Supporters of choice claim that parents look mainly for the best academic opportunity for their children; critics charge that parents will just as often search for a school on the basis of ethnic, religious, or ideological preferences, the quality of the sports program, or how blue the student body's blood is.

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.

Microsoft Corp. co-founder and chairman Bill Gates has chipped in $ 1 million, as has John Walton of Bentonville, Ark., a Wal - Mart heir and nationwide supporter of the school - choice movement.

In toppling Bennett — a favorite of national supporters of expanding school choice and accountability — Ritz becomes the first Democrat elected the state's top education post since 1973.

Supporters see charter schools as a way to introduce healthy competition into public schools and to give low - income families a choice of better schools.

When told that President Trump was strongly in favor of school choice, supporters were 42 percent more likely to support it.

Much of this conversation has centered around Devos» controversial past as a supporter, lobbyist and financial donor to causes that directly support school choice and school vouchers, and how she might further this cause as the next education secretary.

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Groups that support school choice issues, such as vouchers, were big financial supporters of Republicans across the country and in Wisconsin.

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At the crux of the matter we became charter school supporters and advocates because we believed in a system where quality education choices were available to all students, not just those fortunate enough to afford tuition or live in the right neighborhood.

Once a stalwart of education reform — she served as an assistant education secretary under President George H.W. Bush and was a firm supporter of No Child Left Behind — Ravitch has soured on the ideas of charter schools, vouchers and other choice initiatives.

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.

Thankfully Gov. Dannel Malloy — a strong and consistent supporter of school choice and public charter schools — swiftly opposed this proposed cut.

Sen. John McCain has shown himself to be a staunch supporter of charter schools and school choice.

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Chris Stewart, a national school choice activist and the director of outreach and external affairs at Education Post said: «As a longtime member and supporter...

Meanwhile, supporters of «school choice» policies heralded Scott's approval of HB 7029, a 160 - page education bill that lawmakers negotiated into the final hours of session.

Legg, a strong supporter of school choice who runs a charter school, said he preferred the former option.