Last year, he didn't put enough pressure on the Democratic majority that controlled the state senate to pass
a proposed school choice bill; this led to the bill's defeat.
Not exact matches
This change, which was added to the
bill in the 11th hour (it was previously
proposed and then reemerged as an amendment on final passage), is intended to promote private
school choice, a goal that Congress had displayed little appetite for tackling head on.
Fourth, Congress could enact Senator Lamar Alexander's
proposed «G.I.
Bill for Children,» which would give needy K — 12 students grants (in participating states) the equivalent of Pell Grants with which to pay tuition at the private
school of their
choice.
If the Education Savings Account (ESA) program
proposed in Senate
Bill 193 becomes law,
school district operating budgets can be expected to decline on average by a mere 0.14 percent in the program's first year, leaving districts with 99.86 percent of their operating budgets intact, based on the performance of
school choice programs in other states.
Parent activist Megan Wolf, who testified about the
bill during the Oct. 3 hearing at the State House, said the filing of the new enrollment policy took many by surprise and occurs while the public remains largely in the dark on details such as how the
proposed unified enrollment process would work — including its impact on
school choice, equitable access and the BPS budget.