Sentences with phrase «school choice bills»

Year after year, victories at the Arizona legislature on school choice bills have been like surviving an Arizona monsoon season.

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Republicans in Congress are lining up school choice bills.

This session, we will again keep you updated on key education reform and school choice bills that are pending in the legislature.

[5] one of five school choice bills: http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/04/10/texas-considers-five-school-choice-bills

Democratically elected leaders creating school choice bills to allow parents to decide where to send their own kids.

The voucher bill was one of five school choice bills that the Texas legislature considered (and ultimately rejected) this spring.

JS: Last year 36 states and Congress introduced private - school choice bills, including 18 for education savings accounts.

Republican heavy hitters — including Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich of Georgia and House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas — kicked off a campaign last week for school choice bills.

Advocates for a school choice bill that faces a do - or - die vote this week crowded into the Legislative Office Building on Tuesday to make their case.

The debate over a school choice bill in the Missouri legislature has opened a bitter rift among some of the state's top black elected officials.

If I was a passionate opponent of school choice, I think I'd be ecstatic at the prospect of having Donald Trump's administration champion a big, visible, controversial school choice bill.

REACH Alliance Applauds Senate for Advancing School Choice Bill Sen. Piccola & Sen. Williams» Senate Bill 1 Mirrors Most of Governor's Education Reform Plan (Harrisburg, PA — October 26, 2011)-- Senate Bill 1, The Opportunity Scholarship Act, was approved -LSB-...]

If great teachers were really important to Mr. Van Roekel, he wouldn't be spending his time fighting to keep the worst ones while killing every school choice bill within his grasp.

SB61 — Louisiana's Public School Choice bill, authored by Sen. Ben Nevers (D - Bogaulsa), passed with tremendous bipartisan support in both the House and the Senate, which will allow students attending a D or F - rated public school to transfer to the A, B or C - ranked public school of their parents» choice, provided the school has room for the student.

Widely viewed as the most sweeping school choice bill in the country, SB 302 then offers parents about $ 5,100 in per - pupil state funding to pay for tuition at private and religious schools.

The group argues that school choice bill would defund public education in Philadelphia and across the country by redirecting money to unproven charter schools.

The state attorney general's office formally nudged a Las Vegas judge on Friday to move more quickly on a case that challenges the constitutionality of Nevada's controversial new school choice bill.

Last year, he didn't put enough pressure on the Democratic majority that controlled the state senate to pass a proposed school choice bill; this led to the bill's defeat.

Bumsted adds that «the House would send its own bill to the Senate rather than make changes to S.B. 1, the Senate - approved school choice bill.

Trump calls education «the civil rights issue of our time» and asks for a school choice bill chalkbeat.org/posts/us/2017 /

With tension mounting in Madison surrounding the budget and Democrats and Republicans rarely seeing eye to eye on any issue, the Wisconsin State Senate today accomplished a rare feat by moving forward on a school choice bill in bi-partisan fashion by a 28 - 5 margin.

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A Las Vegas judge on Wednesday ruled Nevada's controversial new school choice bill does not violate a constitutional ban against the use of taxpayer money for religious purposes.

Austin American - Statesman: Gov. Abbott Pledges to Support School Choice Bill this Session [VIDEO]

For almost 18 straight months the Corbett team has permitted the Republican House to ignore SB 1, a pathbreaking school choice bill that passed last year.

In 2011, Indiana passed a school choice bill which currently allows 9,300 kids from low and middle income families with household income below 150 percent of school lunch eligibility to receive vouchers equal to between 50 and 90 percent of state per - pupil education funding to use at any of 289 schools — some of which provide religious education — that participate in the Choice Scholarship Program.

Not exact matches

Everyone makes their own decision at some point, so as much as I love Bill Nye, I disagree with him on this topic, as parents should teach their children however they want and in high school the kids will make their own choices.

This bill will help further deploy the much needed educational programs into our schools to teach kids to stay safe, make wise choices online and be better digital citizens.»

The bill has met with opposition in Congress in part because it presents the terrible choice of increasing school food spending at the expense of SNAP, i.e., the federal food stamps program.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice to lead New York City's school system, Alberto M. Carvalho, said that he had changed his mind and would not leave his job as superintendent of the Miami - Dade County system, leading to cheers in a packed meeting room of his school board.

PRIMARY EDUCATION: Sen. Bill Perkins, a school choice opponent, could lose his seat after alienating charter parents.

Cuomo this month re-named the bill the Parental Choice in Education Act, which also includes tax credit provisions for teachers who purchase school supplies.

Cuomo's new bill, which he calls the Parental Choice in Education Act, includes $ 70 million in credits for parents who pay private school tuition.

City Councilmember Mark Treyger (D - Coney Island - Gravesend - Bensonhurst), chairman of the Council's Education Committee, said he is pleased with Mayor Bill de Blasio's choice for New York City schools chancellor, Richard Carranza.

Mayor Bill de Blasio tapped the superintendent of Houston schools to be the next New York City schools chancellor, days after the mayor's first choice pulled out.

School choice advocates, including former Gov. Jeb Bush, are asking Scott to sign the bill.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio named Houston Superintendent Richard Carranza to lead city's schools less than a week after his first choice fell through.

The post, first reported by The New York Times, was taken down and Loeb issued an apology, saying, «I regret the language I used in expressing my passion for educational choice,» but that didn't stop Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray from calling for Loeb's resignation from Success, the city's largest and most controversial charter school chain, in separate tweets posted Friday.

Flanagan on Monday released three different bills for one -, two - and five - year extensions of mayoral control of the city's schools, with longer renewals tied to greater support for alternative educational choices.

For two years, Eva S. Moskowitz positioned herself as one of Mayor Bill de Blasio's most persistent foils: With a powerful signature issue — school choice — and a fearsome network of political supporters, Ms. Moskowitz was widely perceived as one of Mr. de Blasio's most dangerous potential obstacles to re-election.

But much major legislation failed to get through in time, including Shirley Williams» education bill, which would have extended parental choice, made school governors more representative and introduce maintenance grants for 16 - to - 18 year - olds.

Benjamin, who worked as a managing director at real estate firm Genesis, defeated Republican candidate Dawn Simmons, a businesswoman who campaigned on school choice and improving police - community relations, and is now set to occupy the seat that was left vacant when former Senator Bill Perkins joined the New York City Council.

Observers said that House and Senate conference committee members were close to reaching an agreement on the volatile school - choice issue, which has been a major factor in the legislature's inability to adopt a reform bill.

He came back five months later, bought me lunch in his fatigues, and I showed him the photo of the governor signing the bill, and we went to see his brother graduate, who would now walk out of high school with all the choices his brother never had.

But it was Mr. Carlson's controversial school - choice initiative that took top billing in the speech.

Thirteen states enacted new K - 12 school choice programs in 2011 and more than two dozen states are considering similar bills

Eventually, President Bush may use the bureaucratic resistance to public school choice to revive the proposal for private school vouchers that he dropped early in the negotiations over the education bill in 2001.

When Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, he was in favor of a choice among private schools as well as public schools.

For what it is worth, he has repeatedly argued that school choice will be a priority of his administration, going so far as to say in his first joint address to Congress, «I am calling upon members of both parties to pass an education bill that funds school choice for disadvantaged youth, including millions of African American and Latino children.