Sentences with phrase «set against vouchers»

Dead set against vouchers when he ran against Williams for mayor in 1998, Chavous had come around to supporting charter schools, reflecting Democratic orthodoxy.

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The case ricocheted through Colorado to the U.S. Supreme Court and back to Colorado again, where the state supreme court is set to reconsider its ruling against vouchers on the grounds of Colorado's Blaine Amendment, which prohibits public funding of religious institutions.

The technocratic reformers want to use these scores to set a minimum standard, meaning «underperforming» schools would be excluded from receiving voucher funds — or, in the case of charter schools, be shut down entirely — even against the will of parents who still want to enroll their children there.