By Rachel Martin February 19, 2012 Updated Feb 19, 2012 at 6:23 PM EST FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – Thirteen schools within the Lutheran Schools Partnership are now accepting vouchers for the 2012-2013 school year. The luthern schools partnership held open houses Sunday afternoon, showcasing all 18 of their schools. There are 17 elementary [...]
Have you ever heard of The Alliance for the Separation of School and State, where you sign a proclamation that says, “I proclaim publicly that I favor ending government involvement in education?” The Alliance, along with the Cato Institute and a panoply of think tanks with cooked data, have brought us the proposed school voucher [...]
The Virginia Senate voted narrowly Friday to give tax credits to those who donate private- and parochial-school tuition to poor, middle-class and disabled students, a move that Republicans said would change lives for the better but that Democrats warned would undermine public education. Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling broke a tie vote on tax credits for [...]
Via the Wall Street Journal: In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it’s passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program [...]
<!––> A new report by the Louisiana Budget Project says that Gov. Bobby Jindal’s push to dramatically expand the state’s private school voucher program is lacking the accountability and transparency parents need to make informed decisions about their children’s educational needs. The report gives Jindal’s plan an “F” on accountability. The existing voucher program pays [...]
By JASON L. RILEY In his State of the Union address last month, President Obama spoke about the importance of kids staying in school and even urged states to raise the dropout age to 18. So it’s passing strange that his new $3.8 trillion budget provides no new money for a school voucher program in [...]
After preparing for the worst, public-school officials in Lebanon County say Gov. Tom Corbett’s budget proposal could have been much worse. Under the proposal, which Corbett unveiled last week, basic subsidies would rise by about $45 million to $5.4 billion – that’s an average increase of about $90,000 for each of the state’s 500 school [...]
Print this Article Email this Article Feb. 12 — To the Editor: I want to thank Paula Salvio and Joe Onosko for their researched findings about school vouchers, which is what House Bill 1607 will provide. Their research supports what experienced educators and public school students already understand — the public school system is where [...]
Print this Article Email this Article Feb. 12 — To the Editor: I want to thank Paula Salvio and Joe Onosko for their researched findings about school vouchers, which is what House Bill 1607 will provide. Their research supports what experienced educators and public school students already understand — the public school system is where [...]
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerVincent Giordano, executive director of the NJEA, is shown in this 2010 file photo. TRENTON — Gov. Chris Christie and the executive director of the state’s largest teachers union today called on each other to resign, in an escalation of a nasty feud between the Republican governor and the New Jersey Education Association. [...]
No one, it seems, is lukewarm about Michelle Rhee; she’s a pass-fail figure, inspiring or polarizing. In the name of reforming public schools, the onetime Teach for America teacher, depending on your viewpoint, either trailblazed or bulldozed her way through Washington, D.C.’s school system as its chancellor, closing schools, firing people and raising student scores [...]
“Life’s not always fair, and I’m sorry about that, but to suggest that we take money from taxpayers and give it to certain taxpayers to use to educate their kids outside of the public school just seems to me to be [wrong]” Girodana said on a local New Jersey Capitol Report while criticizing the idea [...]
WESTFIELD, N.J. – Gov. Christie called for the resignation Wednesday of a top official of the state’s largest teachers’ union for making a seemingly dismissive remark about poor children in failing school districts. “Life’s not always fair,” New Jersey Education Association executive director Vincent Giordano said on a program that aired this week on NJTV. [...]
SANFORD — The Seminole County Commission criticized the School Board on Tuesday, saying poor planning and overbuilding has created a glut of classroom seats and unnecessary expenses that now is forcing the board to consider closing schools. The debate on whether to close two schools to cut expenses not only is angering the public but [...]
I attended public schools. Therefore, my support for them comes naturally. I believe it is in everybody’s best interest, up to and including the government itself, to have a well educated citizenry. We could list all the reasons why, but how about instead, we look around us and acknowledge the multiple ways society falls apart [...]
The state’s private-school voucher program in New Orleans — the test case for Gov. Bobby Jindal’s new statewide voucher push — has yet to produce enough raw data to show whether it is really boosting student achievement. The governor’s office is backing the voucher idea with figures that appear to show impressive test results for [...]
Many proposals encouraging educational choice are pending in Concord this year. One with strong backing would use tax credits to encourage businesses to pay for school scholarships. Critics say this would starve public schools of much needed funding, but supporters say this is a way to give students more options while avoiding constitutional concerns that have [...]
When Wisconsin lawmakers passed the 2011-13 state budget, last-minute language was added to allow the Racine School District into the school voucher program. At the time, there was concern that the language would open the door to school districts in other cities — like Green Bay and Madison — qualifying for the voucher program without [...]
” Sorry if this is a duplicate, the system doesn’t like me today LOL Seems to me he and the teachers union don’t want us to find out Charter (public) school’s can do a better job for less cost. If they can make a profit while doing a better job of educating our students…good for [...]
Hilary Scheinuk, The Times-Picayune archiveGov. Bobby Jindal For someone who insists that a top teacher union official’s inartful comment about poor parents is the worst thing ever, Gov. Bobby Jindal is sure acting like Michael Walker-Jones’ gaffe is the best thing ever. In the week since the Louisiana Association of Educators’ executive director contended that [...]
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But with limited openings at local private and parochial schools, where would those students go? It’s one of many questions parents, school officials and lawmakers are asking about the proposal, which Jindal plans to send to the state Legislature when it meets in March. “Every child has a right to an excellent education — that’s [...]
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – School vouchers, running for President and Right-to-work. Those are all topics Governor Daniels addressed at a high school in Fort Wayne Thursday. His main objective was to check in with students and parents to see how the school voucher program’s doing. It has been nearly six months since students across [...]
Pinellas County’s newest School Board member is an advocate for school vouchers, as is the man who appointed him to the seat. Gov. Rick Scott tabbed Glenton “Glen” Gilzean, 29, for the position Monday even though Gilzean has only lived in Pinellas County since November. He is currently renting a room from a friend in [...]
SPRINGFIELD – Riding the wave of a victory in school reform last year, education activists are gearing up for another push this spring, this time for school vouchers. Through vouchers, tax dollars are used to help pay for tuition at private schools. Although attempts at instituting a voucher program have been made, the idea has [...]
NEW ORLEANS — Backers of charter schools and voucher tuition plans are kicking off a week of special events around the nation to drum up support for their cause. Saturday’s “School Choice Week” event in New Orleans was scheduled to include a video address by Gov. Bobby Jindal, as well as performances by musicians Trombone [...]
Riding the wave of a victory in school reform last year, education activists are gearing up for another push this spring, this time for school vouchers. Through vouchers, tax dollars are used to help pay for tuition at private schools. Although attempts at instituting a voucher program have been made, the idea has yet to [...]
IL lawmakers set to push for school vouchers — again January 18, 2012 By Andrew Thomason | Illinois Statehouse News Through vouchers, tax dollars are used to help pay for tuition at private schools. Although attempts at instituting a voucher program have been made, the idea has yet to achieve enough support to make it [...]
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12–> The formula for public schools is based largely on enrollment. Jindal said the state is making improvements in education, but “it’s clear that we need to move faster, and we need to do it now. Our children do not have time to wait. They only grow up once, and they have [...]
Jindal, who says public school improvements will be his top priority this year, has repeatedly said that expanded school choice will be part of his plan, including a possible expansion of Louisiana’s existing scholarship program. That assistance, which stems from a 2008 law, only applies to 1,500 low-income students in New Orleans and a maximum [...]
“Education savings accounts are constitutional”: By Jonathan Butcher, Education Director for the Goldwater Institute Jeff and Rebecca were frustrated. Their daughter, Kasey, was struggling in kindergarten, and while they had routines at home that helped her with basic tasks, Jeff saw their progress slip away as Kasey began spending her days in the classroom. Years [...]
When Gov. Bobby Jindal pushed through New Orleans’ school voucher program four years ago, political interest in using taxpayer money to send students to private schools had waned across the country. School choice advocates had suffered several stinging defeats, causing some to throw their weight behind charter schools, which generally receive more bipartisan support. Times-Picayune [...]
Proponents of Indiana’s school voucher program have won the battle, but not the war. At least that’s according to plaintiffs in the lawsuit seeking to stop the controversial school choice program from moving forward. The vouchers, approved by the General Assembly last spring, redirect money from public schools to help offset private-school tuition for students [...]
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Evers is calling on Assembly Republicans to take up legislation that would kill the further expansion of voucher schools in the state, a provision that was approved in the latest state budget this summer. John Johnson, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Instruction, said in an interview [...]
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy knew what New Haven’s Jewish leaders wanted him to say. He didn’t say it. Malloy came prepared to be asked about school vouchers for private-school tuition when he visited an Ellsworth Avenue home Tuesday night for a “town meeting” with two dozen influential Jews. He was prepared, because it was a [...]
by BOB GAETJENS | EDITOR Streetsboro — State Sen. Tom Sawyer, Rep. Kathleen Clyde and state School Board member Bryan Williams will be panelists at a bipartisan forum Jan. 26 on House Bill 136, which would expand the state’s school voucher program. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Streetsboro High School, 1900 [...]
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by Bob Gaetjens | GaTEWAY NEWS EDITOR Streetsboro — State Sen. Tom Sawyer, Rep. Kathleen Clyde and state School Board member Bryan Williams will be panelists at a bipartisan forum Jan. 26 on House Bill 136, which would expand the state’s school voucher program. The event will take place at 7:30 p.m. at Streetsboro High [...]
Your editorial acknowledging the early success of the Indiana school voucher program makes an excellent point that ought to be emphasized around the country as parental choice continues to spread. If the principle of portability (public subsidies following the child) is to be honored, then it ought to apply not just at the time of [...]
The school voucher idea is like an inflatable dartboard. It looks really great until you start throwing darts at it. Who can be against helping families of kids in failing schools? Of course, they have a right to a good education. It’s not their fault the schools are failing them. Great political sound bite; only [...]
2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential candidate who edged out an eight-vote victory over Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses, has a long track record on education that includes standardized testing and accountability, charter schools and school vouchers. Education Week writes: Romney has a [...]
I cautiously support vouchers (and charters) – Prof. Carl L. Bankston III By Carl Bankston III In an end of the year article in City Journal, Marcus A. Winters celebrates 2011 as “The Year of the Voucher.” After a decade of slow movement on expanding the voucher approach to school choice, Winters reports, suddenly 2011 [...]
I cautiously support vouchers (and charters) – Prof. Carl L. Bankston III By Carl Bankston III In an end of the year article in City Journal, Marcus A. Winters celebrates 2011 as “The Year of the Voucher.” After a decade of slow movement on expanding the voucher approach to school choice, Winters reports, suddenly 2011 [...]
Gov. Bobby Jindal and his allies on education reform are considering an unprecedented, statewide expansion of private school vouchers and steps to more closely link teachers’ job security with performance, according to two officials who have consulted with the governor’s office on proposals for this year’s session at the Louisiana Legislature. View full sizeJohn Raoux, [...]
A veteran lawmaker wants voters to carve an exception into the Arizona Constitution to allow state aid to private and parochial schools. Rep. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, said he believes students who have been in foster care or are disabled should be able to attend schools that may suit their needs better than the regular state-funded [...]