Sentences with phrase «school choice movement»

She pushed the private school choice movement to invest in serious political giving much earlier than the mainstream reform groups did, and, so far, with far greater success.

This is a precarious moment for the public school choice movement in New Jersey because Gov. Phil Murphy has promised NJEA leaders that he will call for a «pause» in charter school approvals, despite the need and hunger for better options for children relegated to long - struggling schools.

In 1955, Milton Friedman kicked off the modern school choice movement by writing a short chapter in an edited volume called the Role of Government in Education.

Education leaders and policy makers gathered in Baton Rouge this week to discuss the success and future challenges of Louisiana's school choice movement during the Mini Policy Summit on School Choice.

Democrats for Education Reform president Shavar Jeffries resigned from the Success Academy board of directors earlier this summer, POLITICO has learned, the latest sign of how Donald Trump's presidency is dividing the national school choice movement.

«For the Center for American Progress Action Fund and American Federation of Teachers to conflate segregationists» tactics of the past with the present - day school choice movement is an insult to the nearly 440,000 parents nationwide who use private school choice options to level the playing field.

# 1 - Class - size chaos North Carolina public schools — long roiled by sharp funding cuts, a blossoming school choice movement and an often touchy relationship with GOP lawmakers — faced a new kind of challenge in 2017.

The public school choice movement is based on the same beliefs and goals — that parents should have the freedom to pick the best public school environment for their students and that access to quality public school options should be afforded to all students.

To school choice movement veteran Nina Rees, the decision to provide more funding for public schools as well as vouchers for private tuition was a virtue.

Although the charter school and modern private school choice movements began around the same time (in 1991 and 1990, respectively), they've had very different experiences: Some 2.3 million children are enrolled in the charter sector's tuition - free public schools.

Actually it's the teachers unions» «ideological agenda» that is helping to spur the very school choice movement that Van Roekel and other union leaders are forever decrying.

But not as widely advertised is the Western North Carolina public school's connection to John Bryan, a retired Oregon business executive and significant funder of the conservative school choice movement.

Cooper briefly addressed the commission Tuesday, moments after a panel of local school superintendents bemoaned chronic struggles in recruiting educators, funding shortages and the loss of students to a growing school choice movement.

Yesterday, at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP) and cosponsored by the American Federation of Teachers, school choice opponents attempted to link today's private school choice movement with Jim Crow - era efforts to resist desegregation by providing white students with vouchers to attend private schools.

It shows the charter movement in Utah continues to gain momentum as charters move to the forefront of the national school choice movement.

Ann Duplessis: «For the Center for American Progress Action Fund and American Federation of Teachers to conflate segregationists» tactics of the past with the present - day school choice movement is an insult to the nearly 440,000 parents nationwide who use private school choice options to level the playing field.»

North Carolina public schools — long roiled by sharp funding cuts, a blossoming school choice movement and an often touchy relationship with GOP lawmakers — faced a new kind of challenge in 2017.

It does not do justice to the politics of the educational marketplace during the Great Depression, the education explosion of the postwar period, the tenure of a Catholic president, Lyndon Johnson's compromise, which provided federal aid to Catholic schools serving students from low - income families, and the modern school choice movement.

Attention theologians and philosophers: a critique of Augustine's theology of time helps the school choice movement develop better political strategy.

The School Choice movement imagines a possible future where the social impulse of Waldorf education and its accessibility to more families of all economic levels might be realized.

«Her support for an all - of - the - above approach to K - 12 education — from charter schools, to public, private and online education — defines the school choice movement that has helped countless children across many of our states.

The school choice movement is gaining momentum, but are districts responding to the competition?

Contrary to the largely symbolic reactions to competition evident when the school choice movement was just beginning, we find evidence of significant changes in district policy and practice.

Coleman nonetheless jump - started a school choice movement that has grown in substance and significance over the ensuing decades (see essay by Martin West).

Coleman became the North Star of the school choice movement when he reported that students, especially those of minority background, performed at a higher level if they attended Catholic schools.

As we celebrate National School Choice Week, education - reform advocates would be wise to reflect on purpose of school choice as articulated by Milton Friedman, the father of the modern school choice movement.

The school choice movement has to remember that choice is what makes this reform work, not the regulation.

• What is the spectrum of formality of these associations, and how can this inform the school choice movement?

So, does all this mean the school choice movement has hit a dead - end?

At the event, live - streamed here, panelists will review where the school choice movement is today and where it is headed.

The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling upholding the Cleveland voucher program has rejuvenated the school choice movement and, to a surprising degree, reinvigorated the debate over how best to improve the education of all the nation's schoolchildren.

The school choice movement, as well as broader reform efforts, have focused mostly on helping low - income kids and children of color.

The year is shaping up to be momentous for the school choice movement as well, though again the long - term implications remain misty.

Our hope is that the school choice movement can stay laser - focused on helping as many kids as possible and not be distracted by other issues.

What has made the school choice movement successful is not allowing peripheral issues — however important they are — to interfere with our work to help as many families and children as possible access more and better educational options.

Second, magnet schools have been incorporated into the school choice movement as a means of improving achievement and into No Child Left Behind as a way of increasing the opportunities available to children in low - performing schools.

Nor should the school choice movement expect much from Washington.

Such resistance has dogged the school choice movement for years, producing a fog of politics cleared all too rarely by moments of forthrightness.

Peterson is the author of Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, which chronicles the unanticipated consequences of school reform efforts over the past 150 years and the considers the way in which the school choice movement has evolved.

Is there anything to be done about these schisms in the school choice movement?

On the occasion of National School Choice Week, let me attempt to name and depict the three tribes of the school choice movement.

One of the peculiar facts about the school choice movement is its relative weakness in the country's most conservative region, the South.

And the most interesting debates are no longer waged between choice advocates and opponents, but within the school choice movement itself.

In Williams, the school choice movement discovered an unexpected ally, motivated by a combination of personal biography, pragmatism, and political survival.

Rees, a veteran of the school choice movement, said Washington was a ripe target.

The legislation's passage, the culmination of a nine - year fight in Congress, attested to the school choice movement's persistence, deep pockets, and ability to capitalize on Washington residents» frustration with their struggling public schools.

The growth of for - profit online schools, one of the more overtly commercial segments of the school choice movement, is rooted in the theory that corporate efficiencies combined with the Internet can revolutionize public education, offering high quality at reduced cost.

«It was a great opportunity to get some tips and good ideas, but it was also an excellent opportunity to talk with and connect to some other great individuals and organizations in the school choice movement.»