But more than anything, we'd like to thank the hundreds
of school choice supporters who took time out to offer wishes for kids and parents.
Even school choice supporters acknowledge this change will be ineffective in helping families without means to choose the private school they wish for their children.
This
poor school choice supporter is struggling just to get enough kids into private schools so that the public schools notice and start firing bad teachers!
Money should «follow the child»
school choice supporters say, meaning per - pupil tax dollars should be directed towards whichever school system a student wishes to attend.
But
even school choice supporters, including in states that have existing programs, can reasonably doubt whether investing scarce state dollars in 529 expansion is the right approach.
«The governor's education reform plan provides a clear agenda
for school choice supporters in Pennsylvania, and Senate Bill 1 achieves many of those objectives,» said Otto V. Banks, executive director of REACH Alliance.
In theory, vouchers and other private school choice programs open up the same menu of educational opportunities to all, according to DeVos and
other school choice supporters.
In other states, the launch and expansion of voucher programs should be used
by school choice supporters as an opportunity to team up with school data quality activists such as the Data Quality Campaign to push for the overhaul of existing data systems and the launch of new, more - comprehensive systems.
«Our goal was to elect as
many school choice supporters as possible, so we focused on races we thought would be close, where our efforts would make a difference,» he says.
Nevertheless, the proposal, which passed last year amid often - bitter clashes over K - 12 reforms in the N.C. General Assembly, found a welcome audience
among school choice supporters and Republican leadership in Raleigh.
If school choice supporters had a reason not to be surprised, it was because the ACLU and Americans United for Separation of Church and State shrewdly went judge shopping.
Among historically united
Milwaukee school choice supporters, opinion varies sharply on the most sweeping regulatory changes in the program's history, which were enacted in July, described here.
We hoped the event would be an entertaining way to raise awareness about what school choice really is, and who
school choice supporters really are, and because so many of you who participated, it was!
While supporters of traditional public schools decry the changes,
school choice supporters argued Tuesday that North Carolina is now doing a better job of meeting the needs of individual students.
The controversy comes after a gaggle of
school choice supporters clad in «I Trust Parents» t - shirts descended on the legislative building in recent days.
In the United States, many
staunch school choice supporters are alarmed by the Trump administration's goal of expanding school choice without any accompanying plans for tougher accountability.
With
school choice supporters helming both the White House and the U.S. Department of Education, media attention to school choice has focused on potential changes at the federal level.
More than 1,500
school choice supporters rallied at the Ohio Statehouse today to encourage Ohio's elected leaders to support empowering Ohio families and students with educational options.
That's
why school choice supporters champion open enrollment policies, which allow parents to choose from any traditional public school, regardless of zone or district.
The proposed legislation would also allow for the creation of virtual charters in Puerto Rico — a particularly contentious type of online school,
evenamong school choice supporters.
Several House seats, that
weak school choice supporters once held, have been replaced with strong allies who will fight for the school choice options parents want and the access to any school an Arizona child needs.
Trying to get a bigger ESA expansion through the legislature, which would make the program less complicated for parents to understand and easier to implement for the Arizona Department of Education was one of the toughest
fights school choice supporters ever faced.
Izumi makes the case that while many
school choice supporters rely on academic school performance data to show that public schools are failing, there are many other equally important reasons to support it.
Contrary to Roberts» insinuation, these families aren't like The Little Rascals following around a dollar on a string that's being secretly pulled
by school choice supporters.
At the same time, McDowell's case has also brought up an argument that this is another «predictable» outcry
among school choice supporters — who can rally around another case of a poor mother looking to improve education for their kids — who gloss over the more - complex problem of providing education for children of the homeless.
Even if they disagree with the general assessment of the danger that vouchers pose to private schools,
school choice supporters need the most powerful coalition they can muster to pass and defend school choice legislation.
It's the opinion of this and
other school choice supporters that public education exists to fund the best possible education for every child, whether that's at a district school, private school, parochial school, home school, or other service provider.
School choice supporters in other states always should be considering ways to ensure vouchers, tax - credit scholarships, individual tax credits / deductions, and education savings accounts are delivering for families.
The amendment grew from the lawmakers» desire to protect the interests of school districts rather than an indifference to equity concerns on the part
of school choice supporters.