Sentences with phrase «voucher advocates said»
Many voucher advocates say that IDEA was written in an age when children were compelled to attend assigned public schools.
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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.
More radical advocates say private schools should also be available as a choice, reimbursed at taxpayer expense via vouchers.
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.
That drew criticism from some school choice advocates who said under that scenario DPI would have too much authority over private voucher schools.
Routing school district aid directly to voucher schools was one of several proposals that signaled a trend toward school privatization, public school advocates said.
«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.
In an interview with The Advocate, Dr. Houston said she will continue the archdiocese's commitment to low - income families, who currently receive help through the state's voucher program and her office's own scholarship programs.
«School choice is on a great footing,» said Michael Bindas, a senior attorney with the Institute for Justice, which advocates for private - school voucher programs.
Critics of the publicly - funded vouchers say the program — a favorite of school choice advocates — would spend millions in state dollars over the next decade on primarily religious private schools exempted from many of the accountability and anti-discrimination measures imposed on traditional public schools.
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Combatants on both sides of that fight could claim a measure of validation from the new research: Advocates of school choice who argue that it isn't fair to judge voucher programs based on test results from a student's first year in private school, given that it takes children time to adjust to a new environment, and critics who say vouchers drain funds from public schools without improving student achievement.
Some public school advocates, who typically support Evers, have said he has not been aggressive enough in opposing Republican lawmakers seeking to expand the voucher system.
«My goal is to give parents options,» said Robert Enlow, president of EdChoice, an Indianapolis - based organization that advocates for vouchers and other programs that allow tax dollars to pay private - school tuition.
The passage of the voucher bills and tax write - offs were hailed then by Betsy DeVos, then a school choice advocate and now U.S. education secretary, who said, «We thank Governor Daniels and the Indiana Legislature for working so hard to make widespread school choice a reality across the state.»
Voucher advocates say that Indiana has the strongest charter and voucher accountability laws in the nation.
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.
'' [Legislators] interested in vouchers and the advocates who have been pushing for vouchers came to us and said, «If we get this passed, would you fund it in the budget?»
«Those who really want to end public education as we have it now are now poised to move on different state legislatures with ESA laws similar to Nevada,» said David Sciarra, the executive director of the Education Law Center, a New Jersey group that advocates for equitable school funding and helped organize the legal case against Nevada's voucher program.
Robert Enlow, president and CEO of EdChoice, said voucher advocates have grown accustomed to fighting for the D.C. voucher program's survival under Obama.
Eli Broad has said he «expects to be a major contributor» to Students First, former D.C. Chancellor Michelle Rhee's organization that advocates for the expansion of charters, vouchers, and an end to seniority protections for teachers.
«It's still progress,» said Matt Kussow, executive director of the Wisconsin Council of Religious and Independent Schools, which is advocating for statewide expansion of vouchers.
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.
Advocates for the voucher program said they were relieved after spending years fighting for its survival under President Barack Obama, who opposed vouchers.
While voucher advocates like to use words like «choice,» «freedom» and «opportunity,» AB1 is really nothing more than a measure to take over public schools and accelerate the privatization of public education — «charting a course for the end of our neighborhood public schools as we know them,» says Betsy Kippers, a physical education teacher for students with special needs who is serving as president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council.
Advocate Deborah Turner, who serves on the county's animal services advisory board, said it may also be time to abandon the mobile unit and quickly adopt a voucher program that lets residents go to private vets for cheaper spay and neuter fixes.