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DeVos chairs the American Federation for Children, the largest school choice advocacy group in the nation.

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«Legislators in Ohio have once again stood up for families that lack access to high - quality educational options, and we thank them for putting kids first,» said Betsy DeVos, Chairman of The American Federation for Children, a school - choice advocacy group.

While school districts didn't see much benefit in touting NCLB's choice opportunities, several advocacy groups did.

«It took us 20 years to pass the first 20 private school — choice programs in America and in the 21st year we passed 7 new programs,» says Scott Jensen with the American Federation for Children (AFC), a school - choice advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. «So we went from passing, on average, one each year, to seven in one fell swoop.»

In the group's own words: «The American Federation for Children is the leading national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts.»

American Federation for Children, an advocacy group that spends heavily in favor of school choice, spent nearly $ 1 million on Wisconsin races in 2014 and has spent more than $ 4.5 million since 2010 to elect pro-voucher candidates.

Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington - based education advocacy group, said the family will face a tough choice among public, private and charter schools in a city where attempts at education reform have become symbolic of the issue nationwide.

Bush's team at the Foundation for Excellence in Education pointed us to a compilation of 30 policy briefs and academic studies put together by EdChoice, a school choice advocacy group.

The movement appears to have public support: 70 percent of likely voters said they'd support parent - trigger laws in a March national poll by StudentsFirst, a pro-school choice advocacy group run by Michelle Rhee, the controversial former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools.

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This week, Brandon, a former High Point - area legislator who now heads the school choice advocacy group, Carolina CAN, told members of the right - leaning John Locke Foundation in Raleigh that charter supporters need to be more «forceful» on the issue in the coming days.

Jonathan Butcher, education director at the Goldwater Institute, a conservative advocacy group that promotes school choice, praised the study's methodology, and said he wasn't surprised that public school choice had failed to produce benefits in Chicago.

According to the pro-privatization advocacy group, Ed Choice, about 400,000 children in 29 states attend schools with the help of vouchers.