Sentences with phrase «private school choice champion»

U.S. News & World Report The Evolution of Betsy DeVos The education secretary came in as a federal private school choice champion.

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Private schools, charter schools, voucher programs and other school choice options have been championed by reform - minded conservatives such as Jeb Bush for years now, partly because of their success for countless children of color living in poor communities with even poorer - performing public schools.

The Trump administration has championed private school choice, but critics have pushed back, bolstering their arguments with evidence that such programs can lower student test scores.

Donald Trump unveiled a school choice plan on Thursday that would create a $ 20 billion block grant to expand charter and private school options for low - income children — an idea championed by conservatives, but which has previously fizzled in Congress.

The impact of this idea is being fiercely felt today with state legislatures spending billions of tax dollars to fund separate, unfair and unequal systems of publicly funded education choices, including private school vouchers championed by Betsy DeVos and Jeb Bush.

This is School Choice Week, and undoubtedly there will be blog posts and podcasts championing free - market competition, vouchers for private schools, parents» rights, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Voinovich, former Cleveland mayor, Governor of Ohio and U.S. Senator, was a longtime champion of private school choice and worked tirelessly throughout his career to ensure the most disadvantaged students had access to a quality education through private school choice.