The school-choice pupils are doing demonstrably better than their peers in traditional, government-run institutions.
The school-choice pupils are demonstrably doing better than their peers in traditional, government-run institutions.
The chances of the school-choice movement maintaining the momentum that it built up in 1999 look slim.
David Reimer, the mayor's director of administration, likens the school-choice issue to slavery.
The school-choice movement is about competition between schools, and about giving parents the right to pick any one they want.
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The fact that unions can hammer out individual contracts for individual schools is really promising, for both unions and school-choice advocates.
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But to really have a school-choice movement flourish, we need to stop taking a top-down authoritarian approach to creating charter schools.
Then, open up the public school system to corporations and push school-choice.
In December he ruled that Cleveland's growing, immensely popular school-choice program is unconstitutional because it supposedly breaches the wall between church and state.
Though the U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear several school-choice cases, legal experts suspect the more clear-cut Cleveland case might prod it into action.
Maine has derailed a long-standing school-choice program on dubious separation-of-church-and-state grounds.
In Michigan, supporters of school choice have collected far more than the 302, 711 signatures they need if they are to put a school-choice initiative on the ballot.
Locally, parents can work to massage the culture of a school, and in the city's school-choice environment, they can have more of an ultimate influence on their child's education than in many other cities.
And it would also be nice to see some of the big foundations poor some money into pre-K programs in the poorest neighborhoods in this country with the same gusto they fund the school-choice movement.
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The fact that the current president and Arne Duncan and many others in the liberal intelligentsia and upper echelons of the Democratic party are so profoundly pro-school-choice, pro-accountability, etc. only emboldens people like Scott Walker.
Not content to sit on its laurels, Minnesota several years ago instituted an innovative school-choice program offering parents a mix of tax credits and deductions to help them send their kids to the schools of their choice.
Assuming that neither Mr Pataki nor Ted Forstmann, a wealthy investment banker turned influential school-choice education reformer, could be persuaded to change their minds and run, the likeliest candidate would be Rick Lazio, a congressman from Long Island.
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There are certainly people who fall into different camps on certain issues, for example people who want to use pay for performance based on test scores, school-choice advocates, people who think reading should be taught by using phonics, people who think there should be no homework, and on and on and on.
And my ignorance of the financial consequences led me to reject my second-choice school that called to offer me more financial aid (in the form of grants, not loans, I assume) after I decided to attend my first-choice school but before formally accepting.
Maine has derailed a long-standing school choice program on dubious separation-of-church-and-state grounds.
It comes straight out of the school of public-choice economics, which says that the public sector seeks power in the same way that private companies do.
One of the things parents can do, which is so fantastic, you can run to the Web and go to the school that your kid got into, even if it's not that first-choice school.
Last year the Supreme Court itself refused to hear a challenge to an even broader-based school choice program in Milwaukee.
Moreover, her nonacademic likeability and genuinely strong interest for Columbia as her top-choice school made her a good fit for Columbia.
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Last year the Supreme Court itself refused to hear a challenge to an even broader-based school choice program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Dawn Hepburn was so intimidated and upset by the appeals panel at her first-choice school that she left the room in tears.
Her head and her heart were really into Columbia as her first-choice school, even though she intended to apply for need-based financial aid.
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In Kent, where parents found out about places earlier this month, 85% got their first-choice school, while 96% got one of their top three choices.
Had I accepted the financial aid offer from the second-choice school, I could have most likely saved myself and my parents who ended up taking out loans some money.
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