Sentences with phrase «opponents of school choice in»

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The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

Of course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parentOf course, whether educational preferences based on demographics or dissatisfaction with existing school performance manifest themselves in support for charter schools depends on other circumstances as well: notably, the political power of opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parentof opponents to charter schools, the most prominent opponents being teachers unions; and the degree of school choice already available to parentof school choice already available to parents.

School choice opponents long have understood that a regulatory barrage is the first step in the ultimate goal of killing such programs.

In late 2006, Hubbard and Hoskins adopted the tactics of their opponents, touring the state trying to sell the idea of school choice in rural communitieIn late 2006, Hubbard and Hoskins adopted the tactics of their opponents, touring the state trying to sell the idea of school choice in rural communitiein rural communities.

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.

In two separate lawsuits, opponents of educational choice alleged that Nevada's ESA violated the state constitution's mandate that the state provide a «uniform system of common schools» (Article 11, Section 2), its prohibition against using public funds for sectarian purposes (Article 11, Section 6), and a clause requiring the state to appropriate funds to operate the district schools before any other appropriation is enacted for the biennium (Article 11, Section 10).

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.

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.

The same can be said of opponents, whose insistence, in the face of all evidence, that school choice is harmful has led them to ignore its real achievements.

Choice does not preclude working for fundamental change in public school systems, nor does it necessarily equate with an unlimited endorsement of «privatization,» as opponents frequently charge.

Over the long haul, the dire condition of disadvantaged kids in failing urban schools will prompt more and more of today's liberal opponents of choice - notably the civil - rights groups and many urban Democrats - to begin representing their own constituents on this issue, leaving the teacher unions to fight their battles alone.

My opponents complained that I had tried to destroy the school system with my leadership role in the North Division and independent school district controversies and my support of parental choice.

Opponents would claim that the inclusion of religious schools among the choices for parents violated the separation of church and state, required by the federal constitution, and they challenged the program in court.

And voucher opponents have been creative in identifying a wide variety of constitutional provisions, having nothing to do with religion, under which to challenge school choice programs.

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

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.

Opponents have hamstrung school - choice programs at every turn: fighting voucher programs in legislative chambers and courtrooms; limiting per - pupil funding so tightly that it's impractical for new schools to come into being; capping the number of charter schools; and regulating and harassing them into near conformity with conventional schools.

In his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.&raquIn his book, Bolick describes how he helped orchestrate the mainstream media's first use of civil rights language in defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.&raquin defense of school choice while discrediting a voucher opponent as «blocking the schoolhouse door to minority children.»

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.

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.

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

A growing number of people, including both school choice advocates and education reform opponents, say there's little evidence that standardized test score gains in math and reading lead to improved long - term life outcomes.

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

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.

Abbott's opponent claimed he was in support of vouchers; however, Abbott stated his focus is on public school choice, such as charter schools.

Douglas County, Colorado's third - largest school district, faced its own battle in 2015 - a battle that resulted in three of seven school board seats being lost to opponents of broad parental choice.

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 WEAIn 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 WEAin Colorado wrote a critique of the study, which has been touted by opponents of school choice, like WEAC.

In defense of Arizona's new school choice programs, Dick's research (described on page 4 of this newsletter) directly undercut our opponents» assertion that the new choice programs were both unprecedented and dangerous.

WILL's President and General Counsel, Rick Esenberg, and Executive Vice President, CJ Szafir, write in The Weekly Standard, on how the ACLU and other opponents of Wisconsin's school choice program used the Obama Department of Justice to investigate and derail the oldest - in - the - nation program.

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

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.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, a vocal opponent of the investigation, said in a statement that many people were concerned that the investigation was fueled by President Barack Obama's administration's «hostility to school choice.»

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.

The opponents of educational choice are attempting to defend the monopoly of the neighborhood school in a nation in which most monopolies and oligopolies (see the phone company, the post office or newspapers) have come under pressure.

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.

With school choice winning in state legislatures and the court of public opinion, opponents of choice have turned to the courts to stop them.

But as with the Blaine amendments, as I said, these can be construed — they don't have to be, and frequently have not been, but they can be construed — in just the same way that the opponents of parental choice programs wanted the federal Establishment Clause construed, and would like the Blaine amendments construed, namely, to apply to assistance to families that use that assistance to attend a religious school, in a free and independent choice.

With school choice becoming a tactic of school reform that has gained both ardent supporters and staunch opponents, biases can emerge in the qualitative data and the way it is presented.