Sentences with phrase «school choice opponents»

But still, that wealth of evidence hasn't stopped school choice opponents from claiming otherwise.

Indeed, many school choice opponents claim private schools are unregulated, particularly schools participating in voucher and tax - credit scholarship programs.

But in 2014 school choice opponents sued to end the program, calling it unconstitutional.

Second, many school choice opponents are indifferent to the facts.

While the paper will surely be used by school choice opponents to call for an end to the program, a detailed look shows that school choice advocates should instead use it to call for program reforms.

School choice opponents long have understood that a regulatory barrage is the first step in the ultimate goal of killing such programs.

School choice opponents insist that charters diminish the overall public school system by luring away the best students, the most motivated parents and scarce per - pupil dollars.

Information like this will never stop avid school choice opponents from making unfounded claims that education is somehow a zero - sum game, where investing in expanding educational options for parents is only accomplished by taking resources from the public sector.

School choice opponents always use the false narrative about «millionaire special interest groups» want to take over the schools.

«This lawsuit is part of a familiar attack by teacher unions and other school choice opponents who use the courts to deny low income children — many of whom are minority — the opportunity of obtaining quality educational options, said LFC President Ann Duplessis.

School choice opponents say that «choice» not only siphons resources from traditional systems but also promotes segregation, discriminates against students with the most severe disabilities, and fights against public oversight.

In other words, supporters hope this summer's court ruling, which cited Colorado's Blaine Amendment to strike down the Douglas County voucher program, may prove to be a Pyrrhic victory for school choice opponents.

In 2004, school choice opponents filed a second lawsuit against the program, alleging that, even after Zelman, it violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

That was the year the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the then - favored argument of school choice opponents: that programs that include religious options are impermissible under the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

School choice opponents also challenged Arizona's voucher programs for disabled and foster care students, claiming the programs violated Arizona's two Blaine Amendments.

Instead, cognitive dissonance among school choice opponents leads them to dismiss a solid study.

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.

The evidence from developing countries might challenge the claim, made by school choice opponents, that the poor in America can not make sensible and informed choices if school choice is offered to them.

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

Although some school choice opponents would have the public believe that nearly all district school costs are fixed, Dr. Ben Scafidi has estimated that, on average, only approximately 36 percent of district school costs are fixed.

In most states, school choice opponents have not even bothered to challenge STC programs on these grounds.

School choice opponents have seized on these findings as evidence that these programs are ineffective and even harmful while advocates point out that Louisiana is heavily regulated, the first few years of an evaluation tell only the worst part of a story (i.e. there are transition effects), and that we should be careful about a heavy - handed focus on test scores.

Once again, a school choice opponent has trotted out the same tired and false rhetoric to demonize the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP).

But school choice opponents — primarily public school teachers» unions — continued their state constitutional attacks, arguing that, regardless of whether choice programs are permissible under the federal Constitution, they violate state Blaine Amendments.

[liii] IJ also successfully defended Milwaukee's school voucher program [liv], as well as tax credit programs in Illinois [lv] and Arizona [lvi], from legal attacks by school choice opponents.

School choice opponents have thrown everything at education tax credits, to no avail.

In response to the latest press release from school choice opponents, a little context is needed.