Sentences with phrase «school choice issues»

Except for opinions on school choice issues, differences across ethnic groups are generally smaller than those between public school employees and those who have never been employed by the schools.

REACH will often publish white papers or policy briefs on school choice issues in Pennsylvania.

Paul «Skip» Stam, a powerful Apex Republican and key supporter of school choice issues, sent a similar letter this week.

President Bush has served notice that he will try to make school choice an issue in the Presidential campaign.

Gill was senior advisor for school choice issues on the U.S. Department of Education's National Longitudinal Study of NCLB and served on the National Working Commission on Choice in K — 12 Education at the Brookings Institution.

Groups that support school choice issues, such as vouchers, were big financial supporters of Republicans across the country and in Wisconsin.

In responding to the Idaho Education News article, the state department of education's spokesperson on school choice issues said the state no longer applies for federal charter school start - up dollars because the feds «want states to have a plan in place to close down low - performing charter schools.

Opinion on school choice issues is full of surprises for those who think that members of the public blindly follow their political leaders — or, for that matter, that elected officials hew closely to the views of their party's base.

The Arizona Supreme Court said last week it will decide a school choice issue: whether two voucher programs for children with disabilities and foster children attending private schools violate the Arizona Constitution.

Larry Sand, a former LAUSD teacher who founded California Teachers Empowerment Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that seeks to educate teachers and the public about union and school choice issues, said if Melvoin and Gonez are elected, he would be optimistic that the board would address its unfunded retiree benefits liabilities.

«I think UTLA was geared for a battle over health care, but the district indeed rolled over,» said Sand, who founded the California Teacher Empowerment Network, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that educates teachers and the public about union and school choice issues.

The school choice issue has created several unlikely bedfellows.

We thank the House — especially Representative Tom Quigley — for their leadership on school choice issues, and look forward to working with the Chamber as the legislature moves forward with efforts to provide Pennsylvanian's with more educational options than they have ever had before.»

Since we last looked at where each Republican presidential candidates stands on school choice issues, the field has narrowed but one constant remains: Every Republican presidential candidate supports policies providing more educational choices for families and more opportunities for students.

Declares Forster: «My biggest fear is that the school choice issue will become tied to Trump... a notorious racist who discriminates against blacks in his businesses, said a judge of Mexican ancestry couldn't judge him impartially... and refused, three times, to repudidate the KKK when first asked to do so.

People on both sides of the school choice issue, and the actual record in court, agree that tax credits are the most likely to put legal fears and problems to rest.

People working on the school choice issue also agree that tax credits are more legally viable than vouchers.