Sentences with phrase «school voucher proponent»

For example, WEAC's spending hit around $ 550,000 on television and radio advertisements in 2009 and was crucial to the election of Tony Evers over school voucher proponent Rose Fernandez.

School voucher proponents are finally admitting that their target is middle class students and the public school system — not better education for poor kids, the Center for Media and Democracy reports.

A few weeks after the lawmaker returned from Florida, several received campaign contributions from the school voucher proponents.

Speaking in Indianapolis before a friendly audience of school voucher proponents, she instead laid out a moral case to dramatically transform American education — and improve young people's prospects — by expanding school choice.

Lily Eskelsen Garcia, president of the National Education Association, called the ruling a «setback» for school voucher proponents.

Meanwhile, school voucher proponents are waging a determined and coordinated attack on the state constitutional provisions themselves, saying that these state restrictions are unconstitutional under various provisions of the federal Constitution.

While vouchers were initially billed as a social mobility ticket for minority or disadvantaged students, «universal vouchers» for all families — rich and poor — attending both private and religious schools, are now openly the goal of ALEC and most school voucher proponents.

Not exact matches

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

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

School choice proponents who seek to prove that vouchers, tax credits and scholarships «work» by citing test - score - based research have allowed themselves to be lured into argument that can never be completely won.

In theory, the concept might appeal to those who think taxpayers who don't use public schools should get other benefits instead — and to proponents of allowing parents even greater flexibility and choice than vouchers offer them.

On the other hand, he defies proponents of charters, vouchers, and other forms of school choice as wishful thinkers disposed to let marketplace theories trump evidence of student achievement while also undervaluing education's civic and cultural roles.

While voucher proponents claim that public schools won't improve without competition from vouchers, the evidence shows otherwise.

This motley crew includes civil rights activists, free market economists, career public - school educators, and voucher proponents.

Indeed, he is a proponent not only of charter autonomy but of vouchers, which though ardently desired by the parochial system, are so far only a token presence in the New Orleans schools landscape (see «In the Wake of the Storm,» features, Spring 2010).

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.»

Proponents of vouchers and other measures that expand access to private schooling often claim that competition from privately operated schools will spur student achievement — and, perhaps, lower costs — in public schools.

Proponents of a measure that would provide poor families in Arizona with state - funded vouchers for private school tuition hope to coax enough support from lawmakers this week to encourage Gov. Fife Symington to call a special legislative session to act on the plan.

The California decision is only the latest in a string of legal and political victories for home schoolers, who have parlayed Internet connections into a political potency that charter and voucher proponents have never matched.

Indeed, Colorado recently enacted a voucher program, and voucher proponents are already at work to amend the Colorado constitution to remove the blanket prohibition on aid to private schools.

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

Proponents of vouchers and tax policies that fund private schooling argue that for the types of students they often serve — low - income children, students with disabilities, and students in low - performing schools — it's a good investment to let parents choose a setting they think will best serve their children's needs.

, a campaign whose sponsors include proponents of vouchers, charters, magnets and other schools, though the real focus is on vouchers.

DFER is a strong proponent of charter schools, but is more guarded when it comes to vouchers.

To voucher proponents, that student performance at private schools is ultimately on par with that at public schools shows vouchers are working as intended, giving families an equal but different choice.

Next week (Jan. 27 - 31) is National School Choice Week, a campaign whose sponsors include proponents of vouchers, charters, magnets and other schools, though the real focus is on vouchers.

Forty - one percent of all private schools that participated in the Milwaukee private school voucher program between 1991 and 2015 failed, according to a new study by a voucher school proponent who said he was stunned by the findings.

Many proponents of private school choice — both the voucher and tax credit scholarship versions — take for granted that schools won't participate (or shouldn't participate) if government asks too much of them, regulates their practices, requires them to reveal closely held information and — above all — demands that they be publicly accountable for student achievement.

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

Critics of vouchers often portray their proponents as white conservatives bent on transforming public schools into open markets, exploiting them to make profits to the detriment of poor black children.

Proponents claim that civil rights laws apply under this bill, but they fail to explain that many of the private schools that are eligible to take vouchers are exempt from key provisions in civil rights laws.

Rep. Skip Stam (R - Wake), one of the most notable proponents behind the school voucher law, said yesterday at the school choice breakfast that he wants to expand the program further from its $ 10 million starting point.

Proponents of vouchers argued that parents who sent their children to private schools were «taxed» twice — once by paying regular public school taxes and again by paying tuition for their children's private schools.

Proponents further perceive vouchers as a form of «tax justice,» which offsets a family's tax burden for public school services they do not use.

Proponents of the program say the voucher program is a way to give students better choices when it comes to their education; critics say it siphons badly needed funds away from public education and funnels them into unaccountable, religious private schools that are not obligated to hold themselves to high quality teaching standards.

That could end up being a gift, he said, from Duncan to Betsy DeVos, President - elect Donald Trump's nominee for education secretary and a prominent proponent of taxpayer - supported vouchers for private and religious schools.

While the changes could rope more siblings into the voucher program, school choice proponents have told StateImpact many of the state's private schools are already nearing capacity — and unless the state increases the amount of a scholarship, it's not likely more private schools will open to accept them.

Upper Room Christian's pastor, Patrick Wooden, a vocal proponent of the school voucher legislation,

You pollute the term «school choice» by including privatization and vouchers, when you should know that in California, proponents of vouchers are NOT included in the push for reform or choice and the in California all CHarter Schools are public sSchools are public schoolsschools.

Voucher proponents argue that what it all shakes out to is districts collect more in taxes per student than what the state would take away from their budgets when students opt to go to voucher schools.

Proponents of this unconstitutional voucher program claim Nevada's public schools will somehow have more money if SB 302 is implemented.

Voucher proponents like DeVos do not believe that private K - 12 schools receiving vouchers should have to follow the same rules that public recipients of federal assistance must.

Upper Room Christian's pastor, Patrick Wooden, a vocal proponent of the school voucher legislation, was part of a group of pastors to come to Raleigh to support the bill's passage.

In this way, voucher proponents say, state tax dollars follow students to schools that best meet students» needs.

The Bradley Foundation, which has donated more than $ 2 million to the IJ, has close ties to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a key proponent of school vouchers.

Sen. Malcolm Graham (D - Mecklenberg), formerly a proponent of school vouchers, recently said he's no longer a supporter.

Johnson's amendment highlights longstanding and multi-faceted debates among voucher proponents, disability rights advocates and public school advocates over whether private schools that get taxpayer - funded vouchers should be subject to the same rules governing public schools.

A common argument of voucher school proponents is that these schools create competition for public schools, thereby increasing achievement across the board.

Though voucher school proponents love to talk about «choice» and «achievement,» the real story is that these schools do a serious disservice to students, families, educators, public school districts and state taxpayers and we don't want anymore of them in Milwaukee!

Yet, faced with the overwhelming evidence of potential devastation vouchers and funding cuts would bring to our most disadvantaged students, the proponents of school privatization, blinders firmly in place, continue to push their agenda.