Sentences with phrase «school choice law»

For example, although there are no longer laws that allow racial segregation, a state's housing and school choice laws affect the student demographics of schools.

If resources were what drove performance, then at about $ 30,000 per pupil, Washington, D.C.'s district schools would be among the best in the nation instead of the worst (though they have made significant gains since the advent of school choice laws in the city).

Fortunately there have been 23 empirical studiesinvestigating the impact of school choice laws on the students at district schools.

Ed Week takes a look at the new school choice law in Arizona.

The legal battle over Nevada's school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state's highest court in a case being watched around the country.

Viewed as the most sweeping school choice law in the country, SB302 backed by the Republican - controlled Legislature and Gov. Brian Sandoval would allow parents to tap the state share of per - pupil funding to help pay to send their children to private or religious schools.

Over Thanksgiving weekend, Florida's Sun - Sentinel editorialized in favor of the Florida teachers union's lawsuit against the Sunshine State's most popular school choice law.

The new law is easily the most aggressive school choice laws to date, leapfrogging Arizona's 2011 program, which still restricts access to certain categories of students.

The review found that school choice laws actually enhance civic values and practices:

If SB 193 is passed by the House (it cleared the Senate in March), it would be one of the most expansive school choice laws in the country.

Allying with suburban white conservatives, Williams and her coalition fought for and helped pass the most sweeping school choice law at the time.

Mr. Gledich came into a district that was losing enrollment as families took advantage of Colorado's broad school choice laws to transfer to other districts or move to charter and private schools.

As I noted at the outset, the Wall Street Journal declared 2011 «The Year of School Choice» after 13 states enacted new school choice laws or expanded existing ones.

CARSON CITY — The legal battle over Nevada's school choice law allowing parents to tap into taxpayer money to pay for private school tuition is inching closer to climax before the state's highest court in a case being watched around the country, though resolution could be weeks or months away.

At the same time, the farce of test - based reforms in K - 12 education fueled the development of school choice laws.

Sylvia Lazos, policy director at Educate Nevada Now — a program launched by The Rogers Foundation to advocate for improving public education — called Nevada's school choice law «the most radical voucher program in the country.»

Earlier this year, the ACLU and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit claiming that New Hampshire's school choice law was unconstitutional under the state's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits the public funding of religious schools.

Coincidentally, Alberta does have a school choice law.

Another school choice law passed in Nevada with no Democratic support.

Of those, 22 found that the performance of students at district schools improved after a school choice law was enacted.

Opponents are trying to repeal last year's school choice law.

However, Florida's school choice laws aren't out of the woods just yet.

A slew of anti-school choice activists, including the teachers union, state school boards association, and the state PTA, filed two separate legal challenges against the state's school choice laws, alleging that they violate the state constitution's historically anti-Catholic Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funds from being expended at religious schools, and the state's «uniformity» clause.