Consider, for example, the Milwaukee public school choice program.
But they were daunted by a presenter at their top public school choice, who told hundreds of assembled parents that once sibling placements had been factored in, there were 34 available slots.
The court struck down public school choice plans in Seattle, Washington, and Louisville, Kentucky, concluding they relied on an unconstitutional use of racial criteria, with the 5-4 vote reflecting the deep legal and social divide over the issue of race and education.
Give at-risk and low-performing students more money to bring with them to the public school of their choice.
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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.
The mainstream public school system, which offers parents no choice of school, has failed pupils precisely because unionised teachers had (and have) too much power.
In Milwaukee some 10, 000 pupils, or about 10% of the public school enrolment, go to choice schools.
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin some 10, 000 pupils, or about 10% of the public school enrollment, go to choice schools.
We tell you how to be a cut-rate Ted Turner by buying into a shared ranch ( Living Large on Less), how to trade off the cost of a house against the cost of private-school tuition ( Public Choice) and how to get more from your greens fees ( Golf A La Carte).
How can Al Gore and his cohorts continue to trash school choice and defend the public school education monopoly?
At no point in this process will comparing charters or private schools and public schools reflect the largest gains of school choice.
Then, open up the public school system to corporations and push school-choice.
The latest available research indicates that competitive remedies such as school choice and private management of public schools show promising results for improving student achievement.
It promotes school choice, but only within the public school system, and notes that no other government in the study has followed the American model for reform.
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That she is backing the full corporatization of public schools in Florida goes well beyond simply advocating for school choice.
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This is yet another argument for offering ghetto kids alternatives to traditional public schools, and it's another reason why school choice is so popular among the poor.
Enabled by a strong school-reform movement within the Democratic party, emboldened Republicans have waged an all-out assault on teachers, public education, and public unions and masked it all in the language of school choice and accountability.
As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, both Princeton and Harvard University researchers have concluded that students in the Milwaukee choice program have made achievement gains over their public school counterparts.
School choice kids are doing better than their peers in public schools.
Previously only allowed to pay for college education from personal funds, the new-fangled ESA allows parents to apply public school funding earmarked for their child to the educational services of their choice.
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In 1997, the legislature nearly killed the FHSAA over the issue how its rules could stifle transfers under school choice plans, but instead officially designated it the official public-school association as a compromise to the organization in a bill that regulated its organizational structure and governing authority.
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If the moves in those other states are any indication, collective-bargaining is next in line followed by the expansion of school choice and the injection of more corporate money and influence into the public education system.
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Voucher plans will destroy public schools, while not providing enough money for ordinary Americans to afford a private school, thus obliterating any choice at all.
Keeping rules in place to ensure that all students have access to those goods, through public school buses to all schools, through free meals at all schools, etc. is key to making choice work.
The public want a say in how their child's school is run, will go the argument, not a choice between schools.
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Dean also touched on education, drawing gasps from the audience when he asked the legislature to help him craft a school choice bill, citing a "lack of equity" for those who are dissatisfied with their public school.
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