Sentences with phrase «school voucher advocates»

For instance, to entice prospective parents, school voucher advocates often employ rhetoric about students being «trapped in public schools» without giving tangible evidence that the private schools the voucher gives them access to are any better.

Joel Ebert and Dave Boucher of The Tennessean reported this weekend on a beach vacation for five Tennessee lawmakers hosted by a prominent school voucher advocate.

Not exact matches

Public school advocates offer one possible solution; voucher proponents urge another.

Good News v. Milford is very good news indeed for advocates of school vouchers and faith - based organizations (FBOs).

He is also an advocate of charter schools and vouchers, which the unions oppose.

(Advocates for the bill, chiefly the Catholic Church, argued that there was no point of passing it in the Senate when it wouldn't succeed in the Democratic - led Assembly, where union - allied lawmakers argue the tax credit is a voucher that drains funds from public schools in favor of privates.)

Mr. Cuomo has also voiced support for a bill, backed by the Catholic Church and advocates of vouchers, that would offer tax credits to individuals and corporations who donate money to public schools, or to scholarship programs that help poor and middle - class students attend private schools.

Both public school advocates and voucher backers are weighing the legal situation before announcing their next moves.

Eva S. Moskowitz, Success Academy's founder, has repeatedly sparred with Mayor Bill de Blasio over his education policies and allied herself with Republican advocates of charter schools and vouchers.

With Donald Trump in the White House and long - time school choice advocate Betsy DeVos installed as his education secretary, arguments for and against vouchers and scholarship tax credits are burning white hot.

She has been a fierce advocate for school vouchers.

Even voucher advocates would agree that, because private school choice is costly under the current system, parents who go private are likely to be more socially advantaged than parents who remain in the public schools.

But nationally, it's a question that has ignited vigorous debate among voucher advocates and private school leaders.

The upshot, advocates say, is that a voucher system would have very positive effects on society: it would get kids into better schools, give all schools incentives to perform, and promote social equity.

The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.

According to voucher advocates, parents are mainly concerned about school quality.

The equity issue, then, seems to matter a great deal to disadvantaged parents, and they appear to connect it to private - school choice in a way that is entirely consistent with the argument voucher advocates have been making for the past decade: that choice is a way of promoting social equity.

The most consistent advocates for school vouchers in America are low - income black and Hispanic parents who live in central cities.

As an advocate of state funding for religious schools, Charles Glenn supports the use of school vouchers.

With the nomination of Betsy DeVos — the soon - to - be former chair of the American Federation for Children and a lifelong school - choice advocate — as the next secretary of education, many folks are now trying to understand for the very first time the role vouchers and private school choice play in the reform universe.

In «School Vouchers, Pro and Con» (Commentary, July 10, 1996), advocate Jerome J. Hanus and opponent Peter W. Cookson Jr. overlook what should be the most obvious problems with voucher systems, all wholly independent of religion and ideology.

Some private - school advocates are urging Congressional supporters not to propose a voucher program as an amendment when a school - reform...

Some advocate authorizers for schools participating in voucher programs, an approach that would respect private school independence while maintaining public accountability.

In recent years, choice advocates cheered because Indiana and Louisiana adopted new voucher programs and because charter schools — boosted by President Obama's Race to the Top program and movies like Waiting for Superman — continued to expand and attract supporters.

Harvard professor and iconic school - voucher proponent Paul Peterson has characterized the voucher movement as «stalled,» in part by the fact that many «new voucher schools were badly run, both fiscally and educationally,» and in part because results in Milwaukee were not «as startlingly positive as advocates originally hoped.»

The FTC program, which is essentially a voucher program funded by business tax credits, is the largest private school choice program in the country and has been held up as a national model by advocates and policymakers.

So I imagine choice advocates should mainly expect to see an expansion in federal dollars going to the Charter Schools Program, perhaps some new support for voucher programs.

Yet given the political maelstroms of vouchers — not to mention the research scrutiny — it comes as a surprise that few analysts or advocates have asked about the private schools that accept scholarship students.

Meanwhile, advocates invoked the «hypocrisy» of voucher critics in Congress who were rich enough to send their own children to private schools but would deny that option to the city's poorer families.

Supporters of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice anticipate a friendlier climate with President - elect Donald Trump's selection of school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos to serve as secretary of Education.

December 7, 2016 — Supporters of charter schools, vouchers, and other forms of school choice anticipate a friendlier climate with President - elect Donald Trump's selection of school - choice advocate Betsy DeVos to serve as secretary of Education.

Bush spoke to nearly 1,000 state legislators, teachers, school administrators, and advocates of charter schools and private school vouchers at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C..

Advocates for school choice might be shocked to see how badly the country's experiment with vouchers failed.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who has written passionately about the need to break the ironclad link between educational opportunity and zip code and advocated a voucher system that would allow open access to all public schools in a region, hemmed and hawed for weeks before issuing a statement against the ballot question.

Peterson doesn't pull a Diane Ravitch - style U-turn on vouchers, but he does acknowledge that «the voucher movement stalled somewhere in the first decade of the twenty - first century» in part because «a number of new voucher schools were badly run, both fiscally and educationally,» and because the results in Milwaukee were not «as startlingly positive as advocates originally hoped.»

Macedo recognizes that both conservative advocates of privatized or voucher - based schools and left - multi-culturalists regularly attack views such as his by invoking scenarios in which a healthy «diversity» is steamrollered by a uniform, homogenizing «civic education.»

More radical advocates say private schools should also be available as a choice, reimbursed at taxpayer expense via vouchers.

Second, in what is sometimes referred to as the «Brennan strategy,» named for the architect of the Cleveland voucher program, voucher advocates need to structure their proposals as limited pilot programs targeted at low - income families with children in failing schools.

The advocates of competition between private and public schools and the proponents of vouchers usable at any school have also...

This is also an important topic because DeVos founded and now directs a national organization advocating for vouchers and other private school choice programs.

Vouchers would not have cleared the senate without the support of maverick Democratic senator Bob Hagedorn, who has long advocated expanded school choice.

In the group's own words: «The American Federation for Children is the leading national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts.»

by Jack Jennings Feb 1, 2017 advocating, charter schools, federal education policy, federal funding, No Child Left Behind, private schools / vouchers, Race to the Top, school choice, school reform 0 Comments

Many voucher advocates say that IDEA was written in an age when children were compelled to attend assigned public schools.

President Richard Nixon adopted a «southern strategy» to bring white southerners and northern Catholics into the Republican Party through advocating for vouchers for private school tuition.

I wrote previously about how Lee has been a staunch advocate of using public money for private schools by way of vouchers.

Brad Bumsted reports: He's an advocate of school choice — providing tuition vouchers for children to attend private or -LSB-...]

Two articles illustrate Louisiana's post-Bobby Jindal political landscape for school choice — Times - Picayune: Louisiana school vouchers face tougher time with John Bel Edwards in office The Advocate: Who stayed?

Advocates for the proposal, including GOP Sen. Alberta Darling of River Hills, have said not providing students with disabilities the same opportunity to receive school vouchers as other students is unfair.

The group's self - described mission is «promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers, scholarship tax credit programs and Education Savings Accounts.»