Poll: School Choice Support is Soaring
https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/03/exclusive-poll-finds-soaring-support-for-school-choice/
I unintentionally caused harm to the Native American community
by Brielle Kennington When COVID 19 hit Coconino County, there were so many uncertainties.The supplies the media and government told us would keep us safe were nowhere to be found. Store shelves were bare. There were no masks, hand sanitizer, even hand soap. I couldn’t even find elastic in the stores or online.That is why …
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Explosion of Calls for School Choice Among State Lawmakers
“…the school choice cause has enjoyed a tremendous spike in popularity among voters over the past two years, as public school officials and teachers union representatives have alienated the public with unpopular decisions regarding COVID-19 lockdowns, at-home virtual learning, and controversial curricular content such as critical race theory. Also affecting public opinion on the issue is the tendency of public school failures to negatively impact minority and lower-income communities disproportionately.”
Making School Choice Available to All Families
“A better way forward for education reform is to give families control over their child’s education funds from the outset, whether they want to leave their current school or not.”
Effects of Scaling Up Private School Choice Programs on Public School Students
“Effects are particularly pronounced for lower-income students, but results are positive for more affluent students as well. Local and district-wide private school competition are both independently related to student outcomes.”
Opinion: Why are unions and Democrats so opposed to giving poor children a choice in schooling?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/08/save-dc-private-school-voucher-program-unions/
Scaling up the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program helped public schools improve
“As with many previous voucher studies, the researchers found that expansion of FTC had a modest but statistically significant benefit for students attending public schools. These benefits included higher standardized test scores in both reading and math, as well as lower absenteeism and suspension rates. And the more competitive pressure there was—more private schools nearby, more FTC students in those schools, etc.—the stronger the positive competitive effects. In other words, the larger the private choice program became, the more public school students benefited. Students with lower family incomes and lower maternal education levels gained the most, but the gains for higher-SES students were still statistically significant.”
School Choice Provides Smart Solution to Education Crisis
”Rule #1. The customer’s always right. Rule #2. If you ever think the customer is wrong, reread Rule #1.”
Teachers union head Randi Weingarten thanked for unintentionally promoting school choice
Weingarten: “This parent chooses to drive her students to a school district that has a mask mandate.”
Teachers’ Unions Make the Case for School Choice
“Teachers’ unions and others who oppose safe in‐person instruction have done more to advance school choice in the past year than could have ever been imagined.”
New Poll: Most Democrats Support School Choice to Avoid COVID
“”While the majority of American voters from all political parties support school choice,” the latest poll numbers show a remarkable increase in support among Democrats, Tommy Schultz, CEO of the American Federation for Children, said in a statement this week”