«The president is so wildly unpopular among Democrats that his support for some of these policies — which we've been working on for literally decades — had made the politics of
supporting school choice much harder than it needs to be,» said Derrell Bradford, the vice president of 50Can.
Not exact matches
Instead, Brimelow's concluding chapter seems to instruct readers to
support school choice not so
much because doing so might improve the
schools, but because it will annoy teacher unions.
Talking all the time in
support of diversity and
much less frequently about
school choice is unlikely to win over state Republicans.
After
much thought, research, and palaver, we've ended up firmly attached to a trinitarian approach to private -
school accountability in cases of publicly -
supported choice programs.
We worried that Donald Trump's
support for charter
schools and
school choice would make those issues toxic on the left; growing polarization would sound the death knell for any hope of centrism and bipartisanship, both of which have been essential for the ed - reform project for the better part of two decades; and populist attacks on data and reason would make it that
much harder for our arguments to win the day.
Much of this conversation has centered around Devos» controversial past as a supporter, lobbyist and financial donor to causes that directly
support school choice and
school vouchers, and how she might further this cause as the next education secretary.
Despite
school choice's increasing presence in Trump's speeches, he hasn't given
much detail on how he would go about
supporting it.
The NAACP and most of the traditional black leadership,
much of the Democratic Party establishment, and other organizations with a reputation for advocacy on low - income, urban, and minority issues are staunch foes of private
school choice - despite the overwhelming
support for
school choice among the populations for whom they claim to speak.
Our district is in as
much or more financial distress with the expansion of
school choice programs beyond our ability to
support them.
AFC has been leading the way nationally to make parental
school choice a reality in many states through policy and political
support of candidates who stand firm on this ideal, but there's still
much more work to do.
However, some Democrats
support school choice and test - based
school accountability as
much as Bennett or outgoing Gov. Mitch Daniels.