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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.
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He is also an advocate of charter schools and vouchers, which the unions oppose.
A report released this month by the city's public advocate, Letitia James, found that thousands of students with disabilities who were given the vouchers weren't receiving services to which they were entitled.
The federal No Child Left Behind Act, which President George W. Bush signed into law last year, represented a victory for the advocates of public school choice: the law rejected funding for private school vouchers, but did mandate that districts allow children in persistently failing schools to transfer to public schools that perform better.
The FTC program, which is essentially a voucher program funded by business tax credits, is the largest private school choice program in the country and has been held up as a national model by advocates and policymakers.
Macedo recognizes that both conservative advocates of privatized or voucher - based schools and left - multi-culturalists regularly attack views such as his by invoking scenarios in which a healthy «diversity» is steamrollered by a uniform, homogenizing «civic education.»
Her position has alienated Moskowitz from local charter leaders and advocates, who have taken pains to draw a bright line between their support for school choice and the policies advocated by the Trump administration, which has proposed a widespread school voucher program along with billions of dollars in cuts to public education.
Some voucher advocates want a big expansion in the next state budget, which would require tens of millions of additional dollars.
«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.
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.
The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates, Inc. (COPAA) released School Vouchers and Students with Disabilities: Examining Impact in the Name of Choice which provides both in - depth and an at - a-glance look at state practices regarding the rights of students with disabilities in voucher states and also sheds light on the pros and cons of voucher programs.
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.
«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.