Sentences with phrase «opponents of school»

If opponents of school choice can offer no proof to back their assertions, they deserve neither my steak nor anyone's confidence, leaving everyone to wonder: where's the beef?

Nearly 60 years after Milton Friedman proposed a system of universal school choice in his seminal essay «The Role of Government in Education,» his vision is more popular than ever — and opponents of school choice are taking every measure to fight it.

Opponents of school choice frequently claim that vouchers and scholarship tax credits «siphon» money from public schools and increase the overall cost of education to the taxpayers.

Inslee has a 100 percent rating by one of the largest opponents of school choice, the National Education Association.

Opponents of school choice are once again seeking to restrict the ability of parents to select the best education for their child.

As a large number of New Hampshire's nonpublic schools are religious, opponents of school choice have challenged the program under, among other things, an 1877 amendment to the state constitution frequently referred to as a Blaine Amendment.

Even opponents of school choice agree that tax credits are more viable than vouchers.

The political disadvantages of low - income parents also are exacerbated by the fact that the organizations most active in claiming to represent their interests typically are the biggest opponents of school choice.

Opponents of school vouchers had hoped to sway the state's high court with arguments that the two - year - old program hurts public schools.

Which is why shoddy polemicism by the likes of Eden and other opponents of school discipline reform deserve to be exposed and denigrated.

To justify this ban on special education for children in religious schools, Washington relied on state constitutional Blaine Amendments — the same unfortunate relics of 19th - century anti-religious bigotry that opponents of school choice programs rely on to thwart educational opportunity.

Unable to influence policy in the state capital, opponents of school choice turned to their allies in the Obama administration.

Despite their sordid history, Blaine Amendments are today used not only by Washington to deny educational opportunities for children with special needs, but also by opponents of school choice programs to deny parents the right to select the schools that are best for their kids.

Opponents of school choice make wild and unsubstantiated claims that private choice doesn't work.

In response, Dr. Casey Cobb of the National Education Policy Center in Colorado wrote a critique of the study, which has been touted by opponents of school choice, like WEAC.

Those opposing DeVos are not just Democrats and they are not all opponents of school choice efforts.

However, these amendments, leftover relics of discrimination from more than 100 years ago when a surge of Catholic immigrants caused some to worry about their religious influence in what was then Protestant public schools, continue to be used by opponents of school choice as whips against policymakers who have no interest in inviting litigation.

A lack of resources and capacity is exactly what opponents of school takeover argued — to which the reform crowd replied, «No excuses; Schools must be held accountable.»

Known as the Common Core, the new standards adopted across the country and in New York City classrooms this year have become a platform for opponents of school reform to sound off on everything else they dislike about the current education landscape, from teacher evaluation to testing.

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance on reducing the overuse of harsh school discipline, simply look at the traditional districts represented in Congress by Rep. Andy Harris of Maryland, who this morning, complained that the four - year - old Dear Colleague letter made school leaders «afraid» to discipline children in their care.

If you want to get a better sense of the shoddiness of the arguments of opponents of school discipline reform, especially when it comes to the Department of Education's guidance...

'' [Opponents of school grades] don't like the transparency and simplicity this brings out,» Niederhauser said.

They are also among the most vocal opponents of school choice policies that have been considered by the state legislature in recent years.

What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice hurts the students «left behind» in public schools.

Despite this growing consensus, opponents of school choice programs persist in their attempts to spread fear among parents and the general public by falsely accusing these programs of undermining local public schools and of further restricting educational access.

What Opponents of School Choice Say: Yeah... well... this report just cherry picks studies to show what school choice advocates want to show.

The main two arguments used by opponents of school choice programs are that (1) such programs enable parents to withdraw both their children and their children's education funding from public schools and that (2) this loss results in further financial strain and worse education in public schools.

What Opponents of School Choice Say: School choice «siphons» money from public schools at the expense of kids and taxpayers.

Such quotes were bound to circulate among education reformers and give traditional opponents of school choice, such as teachers unions, heartburn.

Blaine Amendments remain on the books in many states and opponents of school vouchers in some states have mounted legal challenges to the vouchers on Blaine Amendment grounds.

However, the opponents of school choice could not stand by and allow 753 students to attend a private school.

Last week, several news outlets circulated a report by the U.S. Department of Education's research division that found negative results for students who participated in the District of Columbia's Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP), the only private school choice program for low - income children in Washington, D.C. Predictably, opponents of school choice descended on the report to tout it as evidence that school choice does not work.

Teacher unions and allied opponents of school choice persist in searching for support in state constitutions, with mixed results.

Further, as occurred last year in Wisconsin, when opponents of school reform control the executive and legislative branches, initiatives such as Milwaukee's voucher program encounter the double - whammy of less funding and a public school regulatory model.

Should the bill pass, opponents of school choice will no doubt be waiting with knives sharpened and a battalion of attorneys.

Given this one - sided history, it's easy to understand why opponents of school choice are eager to deny it purchase in Washington State and prevent the virtuous cycle from taking hold there.

JS: For the past thirty years, the phrase «vouchers drain money from public schools» has been repeated so often in the press and by opponents of school choice that many people reflexively believe it.

And though opponents of school choice have a long list of complaints (some more valid than others), they are hardly powerless to address them, provided they recognize that working with (rather than against) the choice movement is in their enlightened self - interest.

AQE's Executive Director Billy Easton, says it's no coincidence that the governor is suddenly attacking opponents of his school aid record.

If I was a passionate opponent of school choice, I think I'd be ecstatic at the prospect of having Donald Trump's administration champion a big, visible, controversial school choice bill.

Stephens ran an excellent campaign but Rogers, who has been a consistent opponent of school choice, held on to win by a 300 vote margin.

The National Education Association (NEA) is the most outspoken opponent of school vouchers, claiming they will lead to the reduction of funding for and the privatization of public education.

The NJEA is the largest spender in Trenton and a staunch opponent of school choice and even public charter schooling

This has included issuing guidance that effectively stops Office for Civil Rights investigators from looking at three years of past complaints to prove that a district or other school operators has engaged in systematic overspending of Black, Latino, and Native children, as well as the hiring of Hans Bader, a vocal opponent of school discipline reform.

Opponents of the schools argue that charters don't truly offer a choice and instead pick high - performing students to enroll because they are more likely to succeed.

The union is a staunch opponent of school vouchers, which would allow parents to use government funding to send their children to private school.

Not exact matches

Among spreading other conspiracy theories, Jones has said tragedies like the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Conn., and Century 16 movie theater in Aurora, Colo., both in 2012, were hoaxes, propagated by opponents of the Second Amendment.

«The better able you are to get inside the head of your opponent,» Adam D. Galinsky, professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, wrote in the Harvard Business School's Negotiation newsletter, «the better your negotiated outcomes are likely to be.»

The treatment of the Nazi period in all its aspects - Hitler's rise to power; his establishment of a dictatorship in Germany; the abolition of the rule of law; the persecution of all kinds of political opponents; the racially motivated persecution of the Jews, culminating in the Holocaust; the reticence and opposition of German citizens; and, Germany's instigation of World War II - is compulsory teaching matter at all types of schools in Germany and at all levels of education.

He said opponents of gun rights want to «sweep under the carpet» the failure of school safety, families «and even the unbelievable failure of the FBI» to prevent the shootings.