Sentences with phrase «school choice activists in»

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.

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After suffering embarrassment earlier when Lib Dem activists supported a motion condemning the government's schools policy, he said he had made the right choice in striking an agreement with David Cameron's party.

Most activists in the voucher movement are dedicated to improving the public schools, and they see vouchers as a powerful means of effecting improvement through greater choice and competition.

Concerns about charter schools include them challenging the long - existing status quo (there are more than 4,000 in the U.S.); adding fuel to the debate of vouchers, markets, and choice; and affecting the funding of traditional schools, seemingly pitting charter activists against traditional school educators.

Washington Post education reporter Valerie Strauss is not known for an open mind on school choice, but she would have been wise to do a little homework before reprinting a 1,300 - word oped from an anti-voucher activist in Florida.

Karen Braun, a parent activist who blogs about school issues and is involved with «Stop Common Core in Michigan,» said that Austin's comments about parental ability to make choices on education for their children are at odds with the Michigan revised school code.

Howard Fuller, the lifelong civil rights activist, former Black Panther, and now staunch champion of school choice, once offered in a speech: «CMOs, EMOs... I'm for all them O's.

In 2002, Dick DeVos addressed the Heritage Foundation, emphasizing the need for his audience (wealthy, white conservative donors and activists) to remain behind the scenes and have other faces as the public advocates of school choice.

I challenge parents, teachers, and activists around the country to come together in support of school choice.

«Academics, attorneys, and activists can hold any opinion they want about public charter schools and other families» school choices,» said a spokesperson for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in an official response to the APschools and other families» school choices,» said a spokesperson for the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools in an official response to the APSchools in an official response to the AP story.

Tell that to the school choice activists who have successfully passed voucher measures in more than 13 states, the children who attend the 1,091 new charter schools opened between 2010 and 2013, and families in cities such as Adelanto, Calif., who have taken over failing schools using Parent Trigger laws passed as a result of the competitive grant competition.

She helps us believe that finding the best school for our children is not limited to what's right in front of us, and that being an activist can also be a matter of choice.

Given that the idea comes from more - rabid school choice activists such as Evers and Burke (along with University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene) who want to shield voucher programs from any accountability, and would get the backing of traditionalists (who oppose testing altogether), eviscerating the testing mandate exposes Kline and House Republicans to charges (from other conservatives) of hypocrisy and being in bed with unions.

From opposing the expansion of high - quality charter schools and other school choice options, to its opposition to Parent Trigger laws and efforts of Parent Power activists in places such as Connecticut and California, to efforts to eviscerate accountability measures that hold districts and school operators to heel for serving Black and Brown children well, even to their historic disdain for Black families and condoning of Jim Crow discrimination against Black teachers, both unions have proven no better than outright White Supremacists when it comes to addressing the legacies of bigotry in which American public education is the nexus.

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.

In other states, the launch and expansion of voucher programs should be used by school choice supporters as an opportunity to team up with school data quality activists such as the Data Quality Campaign to push for the overhaul of existing data systems and the launch of new, more - comprehensive systems.

Particularly for school choice activists of a conservative or libertarian bent (including University of Arkansas» Jay P. Greene and Greg Forster at the Milton & Rose D. Friedman Foundation), thinking through these issues means challenging their own ideology — especially their misguided belief that choice alone will lead to improvements in school quality and serve as the best form of accountability — as well as their own financial concerns as members of a sector of American public education.