School Choice Week recognized

They say the tax credits are another way to deplete public school funding.

Scott also said he’s a big believer in public education, and that students should have options ranging from charter and virtual schools. Democrats and civil rights groups are calling her unfit for the job, while late-night comics ridicule her statement that schools might need guns to protect against “potential grizzlies”. The state also allows parents to select the best traditional public school, regardless of where the school is located.

Public school educators have urged Texas lawmakers this year to increase the amount of money it sends to public school districts. These events are planned to coincide with National School Choice Week, the largest celebration of opportunity in education in US history.

That bill passed the Patrick-led Senate but died in a House committee.

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is never going to give up trying to spend taxpayer money on educating Texas students in private schools.

Vouchers – a certificate issued by the government, which parents can apply toward tuition at a private school (or, by extension, to reimburse home schooling expenses), rather than at the state school to which their child is assigned.

“This is not a war on public education”.

“I thought her performance was pretty strong, actually”, Scott said. In some cases it will literally take centuries before the Bluegrass State can expect to see reasonably high rates of academic proficiency for its children of color based on demonstrated history with the NAEP.

In a stark reprobation contrasting the smiling faces behind him, Reeves dressed down opponents of school choice.

During last year’s legislative debate about the future of the financially crippled Detroit Public Schools, the mayor and his allies touted a Detroit Education Commission as the key to improvements. So, I don’t know how school choice can hurt traditional public schools when they are an important component of school choice. “We are seeing those A-F grades definitely being used to bolster an argument that we don’t agree with”.

“We finally have a president and a vice president who believe in school choice”, said House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), speaking Tuesday on Capitol Hill at a National School Choice Week rally.

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Gov. Greg Abbott made a relatively rare appearance with Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, a tea party favorite who has always been Texas’ leading advocate for vouchers where families get state money to remove children from public schools and send them to private and religious alternatives.