Sentences with phrase «school choice activists»

Many — especially school choice activists and Parent Power advocates fighting Pennsylvania's Zip Code Education laws — can rightfully argue that the state should take over full funding of education and the reliance on local property tax dollars.

Earlier this year, Dropout Nation argued that one way that school reformers — including school choice activists and Parent Power groups — could advance reform and expand school choice was to file lawsuits similar to school funding torts used for the past four decades by school funding advocates.

Especially for school choice activists whose work to expand charter schools and vouchers have been denigrated by traditionalists, association with a Trump Administration with an avowed bigot in leadership will damage their laudable efforts.

Chris Stewart, a national school choice activist and the director of outreach and external affairs at Education Post said: «As a longtime member and supporter...

You don't really care about treatises on whether families are best being customers of schools, or ideological debates over the value of Common Core, or pablum from school choice activists with jobs to protect about why state tests shouldn't be used to hold accountable private schools taking vouchers for serving kids, or if an Obama Administration plan to address suspensions is somehow a punishment to traditional district schools that have been failing kids for decade after decade.

The group, in turn, successfully beat back efforts by reformers and school choice activists in the Sunshine State to expand choice (and abolish the religious bigotry - driven Blaine amendment banning the use of public school dollars for expanding access to high - quality private school options for poor and minority kids) through the passage of Amendment 8.

This problem, in turn, hits upon many of the other issues that specifically face voucher supporters (and ultimate, in general, are faced by school choice activists), That, while vouchers have proven to be successful reforms, they aren't exactly unqualified successes.

School choice activists have launched a fresh legal challenge to a Maine program that provides public funding for students to attend secular but not religious private schools.

Among the nine task force members Mr. Christie named on Oct. 28 are a local schools superintendent, a high school PTA officer, a charter school principal, and a school choice activist.

DeVos has a history as a school choice activist and we've been reading about her record - here, here, and here to name a few.

School choice activists (along with conservative reformers) can not «turn a blind eye to racism» or ignore Trump's long record of bigotry without risking loss of support for their efforts.

Meanwhile there are reformers (including Common Core supporters and school choice activists) who want to backslide on subgroup accountability.

Despite the objections of Senate Democrats, teachers unions and others, school choice activist and billionaire Republican donor Betsy DeVos passed a committee vote to be secretary of education.

A key Senate committee voted Tuesday to approve the nomination of Betsy DeVos, a school choice activist and billionaire Republican donor, to be secretary of education, despite the fierce objections of Senate Democrats, teachers unions and others.

Parent Power groups and school choice activists could challenge the waivers on those grounds.

But what if Parent Power groups, school choice activists, conservative legal organizations, and civil rights outfits push for a court injunction of the waiver effort?

But given the deeply - held opposition to vouchers from both education traditionalists and some elements within the school reform movement itself, voucher supporters and school choice activists can not simply hope that bad news goes away.