Sentences with phrase «promoting vouchers for private schools»

DeVos» main focus over several decades has been promoting vouchers for private schools.

Not exact matches

DeVos is certainly known for her support of various forms of school choice, including vouchers, but there are both practical and political obstacles to promoting private school choice from DC.

Trump's conception, now reinforced by the DeVos appointment, promotes choice, broadly construed, to authorize charter schools, vouchers and opportunity scholarships including public, private, for profit, and maybe even religious schools.

The federal tax credit proposal is one of several ideas under review by the White House to fulfill Donald Trump's campaign promise to promote the expansion of charter schools and vouchers that would allow families of low income to use public money for private school tuition, sources tell POLITICO.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

Ms. DeVos, a wealthy Republican donor, has spent decades promoting publicly funded, privately run charter schools and vouchers for low - income students to use to attend private and religious schools.

President Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

Even in her home state of Michigan, where she chaired the state Republican Party, she was unsuccessful in promoting legislation for vouchers for students to attend private schools.

Real dissent from Democrats should equate to aggressively limiting DeVos's policies, which have included restricting state oversight, promoting for - profit charter management organizations and encouraging vouchers for private schools including those that are faith - based.

Ms. DeVos is known for her involvement in several education reform organizations that support or promote privatization efforts, including private school vouchers.

President Donald Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

But respondents were opposed to vouchers, or using tax dollars to pay for private school tuition, a policy increasingly promoted by Republican politicians.