Sentences with phrase «public debate over vouchers»

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The coming debate will be over whether the solution is to create a more sweeping form of public school choice or to revive private school vouchers to create the alternative the public system has so far squelched.

Given the ferocity of the debate over vouchers, it is often forgotten that early in the history of the United States, religiously affiliated schools at times received generous public funding from states and cities.

As a researcher who studies both vouchers and other forms of school choice such as charter schools (independently operated public schools) I believe the new Louisiana studies are important to longstanding debates over the extent to which such choice enhances academic outcomes.

The laws have become part of a broader debate over the proliferation of charter schools, private school vouchers and everything else now dubbed «education reform,» a vague term used by self - professed reformers to describe nearly any attempts that call for challenging the traditional public school system.

Johnson's amendment highlights longstanding and multi-faceted debates among voucher proponents, disability rights advocates and public school advocates over whether private schools that get taxpayer - funded vouchers should be subject to the same rules governing public schools.

Debates rage on over school vouchers, which some of my black neighbors favor because of serious remaining questions about the quality of public schools.

The push comes amid a heated debate over the voucher program, which the state teachers union and local officials contend pulls money away from traditional public schools.