Sentences with phrase «with voucher proponents»

The start of the Tennessee legislative session sometimes feels like the movie Groundhog Day, with voucher proponents bringing legislation every year to shift public dollars away from public school budgets and toward private schools.

Not exact matches

The prediction comes from both proponents and opponents of the tuition - voucher measure, which, by providing parents with $ 900 for each student enrolled in a private or out - of - district public school, would be the most extensive choice program yet adopted by any state.

Putting himself somewhat at odds with many voucher proponents, Moe suggests that - based on what the public says - voucher proponents would do well to «get away from free markets and accept an integral role for government regulation in the design of voucher programs.»

While reaching out to fellow Democrats, choice proponents in the minority community have sought to build alliances with Republicans and with libertarian organizations like the Institute for Justice, which has represented poor parents in every voucher case that has come before the courts in the past dozen years, including Zelman.

Proponents of a measure that would provide poor families in Arizona with state - funded vouchers for private school tuition hope to coax enough support from lawmakers this week to encourage Gov. Fife Symington to call a special legislative session to act on the plan.

Concerned Women for America held a conference outside Kansas City, Mo., this weekend that opened with denunciations of Common Core and built to an address by state Sen. Ed Emery, a voucher proponent who has compared the current public education system with slavery because it traps students in government - run schools.

Proponents of vouchers and tax policies that fund private schooling argue that for the types of students they often serve — low - income children, students with disabilities, and students in low - performing schools — it's a good investment to let parents choose a setting they think will best serve their children's needs.

To voucher proponents, that student performance at private schools is ultimately on par with that at public schools shows vouchers are working as intended, giving families an equal but different choice.

It doesn't matter how their proponents try to disguise them — education savings accounts, tuition tax credits, opportunity scholarships — vouchers are destructive and misguided schemes that use taxpayer dollars to «experiment with our children's education without any evidence of real, lasting positive results,» says NEA President Eskelsen García.

Yet, faced with the overwhelming evidence of potential devastation vouchers and funding cuts would bring to our most disadvantaged students, the proponents of school privatization, blinders firmly in place, continue to push their agenda.

AP looks anew at vouchers in Utah with the ascendancy of Secretary DeVos, a voucher proponent.

Proponents of the program say PESAs, along with publicly - funded private school vouchers and another disability voucher program, offer families the chance for their children to gain a superior educational experience in a private setting.

Principals at Vigo County Catholic schools pleased with voucher ruling — «Another Terre Haute voucher proponent is Ron Eldred, principal at John Paul II Catholic High School.

While the first wave of vouchers passed by states came with requirements to keep the money in the hands of families most affected by underperforming schools, voucher proponents saw an opportunity in Nevada to go even further.