Sentences with phrase «school choice advocates»

The win comes at a good time for school choice advocates who have been building momentum in the states.

Another policy supported by school choice advocates is using public money to support charter schools.

But school choice advocates across the nation saw the decision as a game changer in the divisive debate over publicly funded vouchers for private religious schools.

None of the options school choice advocates promote — charter schools, voucher supported private schools, online schools operated by private companies — are part of a truly public school system.

The program, popular with school choice advocates, uses tax dollars to cover tuition for private and religious schools.

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They also have the potential to realize the promise of developing a set of best practices to be shared locally, statewide and nationally that have been promised by school choice advocates.

The role of school choice advocates in governing regimes is extensive and will prove difficult to extricate from the policymaking process.

Sen. Piccola & Sen. Williams» Senate Bill 1, Governor's Education Reform Plan Touted as Solutions (Harrisburg, PA — November 15, 2011)-- Hundreds of school choice advocates gathered in the Capitol Rotunda today in support of Senate Bill 1 and -LSB-...]

A coalition of other school choice advocates said more fundamental reforms are needed through a pending school voucher proposal, the Opportunity Scholarship Act (OSA), and that Christie should think twice about signing the conversion bill.

President - elect Donald Trump has selected longtime school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education.

After all, for much of the past twenty years, too many school choice advocates got in the habit of overpromising.

As school choice advocate Chris Stewart wrote in his response to the NAACP report: «If the NAACP is honest, it will apply the same demands to all public schools.

Smith is a longtime school choice advocate but finds himself a skeptic on the Nevada law.

But a new set of numbers circulating among prominent school choice advocates in Raleigh indicates the opposite, much to the consternation of public school backers in North Carolina.

June is shaping to be a busy month for private school choice advocates, critics, and opponents.

Students at Yadkin Valley Community School, a private Montessori School in Elkin, crowd around school choice advocate Darrell Allison in celebration of National School Choice Week.

School choice advocates believe schools will try to improve when faced with competition that could draw away students, diminishing their budgets and even forcing them to close.

That prospect should make school choice advocates nervous.

With Donald Trump in the White House and long - time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos installed as his education secretary, arguments for and against vouchers and scholarship tax credits are burning white hot.

This mirrors the longtime optimism among school choice advocates that the exodus of students and money — the threat of competition leading to hemorrhage leading to downfall — would change power relationships inside school districts.

School choice advocates got a big boost with the election of the new administration.

It turns out that's becoming a squishy term too, at least if school choice advocates have their way.

«Rationally, she's the one that makes sense for Republicans,» said one school choice advocate who has worked closely with both DeVos and Rhee.

Tuesday's confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Education Secretary gave a significant boost to school choice advocates around the country.

What Opponents of School Choice Say: Yeah... well... this report just cherry picks studies to show what school choice advocates want to show.

(Harrisburg, PA — November 15, 2011)-- Hundreds of school choice advocates gathered in the Capitol Rotunda today in support of Senate Bill 1 and the governor's education reform plan.

School choice advocates told state legislators that charter school students aren't being funded fairly compared to students in traditional public schools, especially when it comes to getting money for buildings.

The proposal drew criticism from school choice advocates.

The school choice reforms adopted by the legislature this year are already receiving national attention with the Washington Times saying, «Mississippi parents and school choice advocates hit a trifecta last week» after expansions to the charter school law and the Education Scholarship Account (ESA) program, and a renewal of the Dyslexia Scholarship Program occurred on....

Similarly, if families simply tend to assume that any private school must be superior to their available public schools, it may be that informing parents about school quality is more difficult than school choice advocates tend to assume.

School choice advocates rallied in the rotunda of Mississippi's statehouse Tuesday with one message: Choice is great, and we want more of it.

Yesterday, we joined LFC's school choice advocate families in Baton Rouge for a Christmas lunch and a fun competition to build the best gingerbread house.

Yet many of Illich's and Goodman's arguments foreshadowed criticism later taken up by school choice advocates on the Right, where until 1996 the Republican party platform still called for abolishing the Department of Education.

School Choice advocates saw a big win in Florida where Al Lawson of Tallahassee and Darren Soto of Central Florida both prevailed in their respective congressional races and educational choice proponents virtually swept state legislative races.

The U.S. Senate confirmed school choice advocate Betsy DeVos as Education secretary by the narrowest of margins, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50 - 50 tie in a historic vote.

School choice advocates generally support an array of programs offering students and their families alternatives to publicly - provided schooling.

Will VP Mike Pence (a strong school choice advocate) exert any influence?

And so school choice advocates are watching the Douglas County case closely, hopeful that the Colorado court will either provide a salutary precedent for similar cases in other states or rule against the district and give the U.S. Supreme Court the opportunity to extend the logic of Trinity and rule all Blaine Amendments unconstitutional.

On April 12, 2006, a group of 200 parents and children, organized by school choice advocate Donayle Whitmore - Smith and Bertha Gilkey Bonds of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, traveled to the state house to lobby representatives for the bill.

Most school choice advocates have learned that we can make far more progress and help far more kids by working through state legislatures.

«School choice advocates place great faith in the market model, assuming that parents will be good shoppers and will move their children into higher quality, more responsive schools,» said Bruce Fuller, codirector of the study.

Edtech entrepreneurs and school choice advocates sometimes invoke it as an indomitable force that will redeem and transform broken school systems.

Political leaders and school choice advocates expected achievement would improve as students attended better schools, private schools would expand to meet growing demand, and the state would spend less because the cost of each tuition voucher would be lower than the full cost of a public education.

The dispute over Wolf's methods and the resulting data, which can grow quite heated, reflect the ideological divides — teacher unions versus school choice advocates — that shape many of today's education debates.

Earlier this week, one prominent school choice advocate spoke out against the Nevada plan in a debate hosted by Education Next, an education reform journal.