This is followed by a push to reform public school systems by introducing more charters, voucher programs, or virtual schools.

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In our case, the support of the mayor has been critical, and as one of the only large urban districts to adopt this change in governance of our schools, I believe that the District of Columbia public school system will be a model for urban school reform.

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To ensure buy-in from education reformers and to make sure the money is spent well it is imperative that pre-k funding not be spent through the existing union dominated public school system that has proven so difficult to reform.

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On September 19, a group of students took over a public school in the historic center of Guatemala City, in protest of the education reform.

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Vallas got the job three years ago after the Republican-controlled Illinois state legislature in Springfield passed a sweeping reform bill that gave Mayor Daley effective control of the Chicago public school system.

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In America, strong pressure for reform comes from blacks and Hispanics in big cities, who are deserting the public school system in unprecedented numbers.

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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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