Sentences with phrase «voucher advocates»

This may be the fantasy of voucher advocates, but it's a nightmare for public schools and the families they serve.

But voucher advocates said that they had good reason to seek changes in the study of the program.

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.

The Oscar winner inspired a spirited discussion among the men on the trip, who were hosted by voucher advocate Mark Gill, about leadership and integrity.

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

She has also been an ally and booster of DeVos, a longtime voucher advocate who earlier this month was narrowly confirmed as education secretary.

Bender and other voucher advocates have argued from the start that no such discrimination exists, an argument Bender says is enforced by the DOJ's closure of the investigation.

DeVos thanked Pocan for the question, then launched into a history of vouchers in Wisconsin, dropping the name of Annette Polly Williams, the late Democratic state lawmaker from Milwaukee who was an early voucher advocate.

With voucher advocates trumpeting «National School Choice Week,» it is a fitting time to examine the proposed expansion of private school vouchers in Wisconsin.

This pressure would surely come from voucher advocates, but could also come from other groups who understand the nature of redistribution portability would entail.

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.

This dissatisfaction, notes Moe, gives voucher advocates quite a lot to work with as they seek to move public opinion in their favor.

How school voucher advocates engineered the breakthrough is the story of a complex alignment of interests among conservative education activists, the Republicans who control Washington, and the local leaders of a majority African - American city.

Second, and more troublesome for voucher advocates, a court might conclude that the passage of time or a more recent rewriting of a state constitution has cleansed whatever improper motive lay behind the original adoption of the Blaine amendment.

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.

Critics in the education community often stereotyped John as an ideologue, a privatizer, and a fire - breathing voucher advocate, but they just didn't know him.

However, the Duke University economist is less distracted than Carnoy by the supposed misrepresentations of voucher advocates posing as researchers and more impressed by an empirical literature that consistently turns up negative findings.

The most interesting thing about Moe's challenge, however, is that it was not raised by voucher advocates during the period from 1993 through 1998, when support for vouchers as measured by both questions was climbing steadily.

Thompson assured voucher advocates that once the bill passed, the program could be expanded.

The new guidelines make it easier for certain students — including those with special needs — to receive a voucher, prompting voucher advocates to predict the program's participation (currently at more than 9,100 students) will only grow.

The Department of Public Instruction and school voucher advocates support the changes, some of which were proposed in State Superintendent Tony Evers» budget proposal.

«Less responsible voucher advocates will say that this is proof positive that these programs work,» said Figlio, who is the Orrington Lunt Professor of Education and Social Policy at Northwestern University.

«It is worth noting that this finding comes from an organization that bills itself as «the nation ‟ s leading voucher advocates»... Because of its announced agenda on this issue, publications such as this would benefit greatly from undergoing a blinded peer review prior to publication, which would likely identify problems with data, methods and interpretations.

The irony here some find sweet, since Donald Trump and his selection of voucher advocate Betsy DeVos for education secretary idolize private schools.

, during which she morphed from a quietly powerful Republican donor and school voucher advocate into a polarizing household name

Colorado and Missouri are among 39 states that have strict prohibitions on public funds» going to religious schools, known as Blaine Amendments, which voucher advocates consider the last line of defense for opponents of private school choice.

Those who spoke in support of the voucher bill included Doug Tuthill, a Floridian voucher advocate who heads Step Up for Students, which administers Florida's tax credit scholarship program.

FACT: Although certain voucher advocates have gone so far as to argue that attendance at DC public schools leads students to join gangs, there is no evidence that voucher schools are safer than public schools.

Humphries also has the backing from influential Republicans, including Michael Grebe, former chairman of Walker's political campaign, and voucher advocates Reps. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, R - Fond du Lac, and Jason Fields, D - Milwaukee.

Governor Snyder's secret «Skunk Works» group was an unintended peek into the money grab voucher advocates and others are attempting by privatizing the public schools.

Despite voucher advocates» efforts to spin the mixed data on vouchers as a whole, there is no research showing ESAs work.

Decisions about which schools a child may attend «should be made based on a child's individual learning needs, and that's what the school voucher program does,» voucher advocate Tosha Salyers wrote in a 2015 blog post for EdChoice, an Indianapolis - based organization that promotes school choice nationwide.

That has some of Indiana's charter and voucher advocates feeling particularly uneasy.

Public voucher advocates do not simply argue for vouchers, but they argue against Labor Unions.

Hence, Sen. Kelsey (R - Germantown), one of the most vocal voucher advocates in the legislature, has introduced a new voucher concept that would purportedly be limited only to Shelby County Schools.

Chavous and other voucher advocates have said that the study's findings can not be seen as a verdict on the program's effectiveness, because they are a snapshot of only one year.

We're told by voucher advocates this will be limited to Shelby County and won't expand unless is «works.»

For the most part, the evidence from this study tends to support the claims of voucher advocates and to contradict those of critics.