The Latest News about school choice

The United States Supreme Court struck down a ban on taxpayer funding of religious schools Tuesday in a monumental win for school choice. Chief Justice John Roberts joined conservative justices in a 5-4 ruling backing a Montana tax-credit scholarship program that gives residents credit if they donated to private scholarship organizations, according to Fox News, which would help the students ...

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that school choice is the “civil rights statement of the year.” “School choice is the civil rights statement of the year, of the decade, and probably beyond,” POTUS said at a White House press conference Tuesday. “Because all children have to have access to a quality education. A child’s ZIP code in America should never ...

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday took a stand against school choice vouchers, despite the fact that he chose to send both of his sons to a posh private high school in Delaware. “When we divert public funds to private schools, we undermine the entire public education system. We’ve got to prioritize investing in our public schools, so every ...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos fired back at the head of a teachers’ union Tuesday and said, “It’s time for a lesson.” DeVos spoke out Tuesday against Randi Weingarten, the American Federation of Teachers president, in regards to Weingarten’s tweet saying that DeVos attempts to keep children out of public schools. “What about the 90% of children whose parents choose ...

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren denied sending her children to private schools, despite the fact that she sent her son to an elite private school. When confronted by school choice activists after a campaign rally on Thursday, Warren said that her children didn’t go to private schools. “We are going to have the same choice that you had for ...

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign rally in Atlanta on Thursday was derailed by parents protesting the Massachusetts senator’s opposition to charter schools. The group of mostly black parents interrupted Warren’s event, which was aimed at courting black women voters, with chants of “Our children, our choice!” and “We want to be heard!” WATCH:  A group wearing “powerful parent network” ...

Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pledging to crack down on school choice if elected, despite the fact that she sent her own son to an elite private school, publicly available records show. The 2020 presidential candidate’s public education plan would ban for-profit charter schools — a proposal first backed by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — and eliminate government incentives ...

U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos said that it is no surprise “families want more control” over their children’s education. The Secretary of Education spoke in reference to a 2019 opinion poll on education policy from Education Next, which reveals that American families want more control over the education of their children. “American families want more control and more options ...

Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren said she wanted to keep public tax dollars away from charter schools. WATCH: Sen. Elizabeth Warren: "What Betsy Devos has done to our public education really undermines the best opportunities for our kids. I think our public tax dollars should stay in our public schools." Question: "So, no to for-profit charter schools?" Warren: "Yeah." pic.twitter.com/yTLggavVm0 ...

Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is set to call for a ban on for-profit charter schools in an education policy speech in South Carolina Saturday. This would make Sanders the first 2020 presidential candidate to suggest such a policy, according to CNN. Sanders will argue that the increase in charter schools have taken money away from public schools and have ...

  by Rob Shimshock A Thursday poll showed that about two-thirds of likely 2018 voters are in favor of school choice. Sixty-three percent of Americans likely to vote in the 2018 elections support school choice, with minorities more likely to support it than whites, according to a press release obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. “I’m not surprised,” said Lance ...

Poor students deserve just as good an education as rich students, right? So why are so many stuck in failing public schools? Denisha Merriweather, who benefited from school choice through a voucher program, explains the problem and the solution. Full Transcript Public schools aren’t the answer for everyone. They weren’t the answer for me. Schools in my neighborhood in Jacksonville, ...

Vice President Pence Joins Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at a School Choice Event Wednesday morning in celebration of School Choice Week. The President also made a surprise appearance at the event to talk about the Opportunity Scholarship that allows low-income families to move their children from underperforming public schools to private institutions. The video also features an inspiring story from the daughter ...

Parents make so many important and exciting choices for their children: The town they live in, the food they eat, the clothes they wear. So why do parents lose that choice when it comes to the school they attend? Take the pledge for school choice at http://SchoolChoiceNow.com.

A school choice advocacy group today described the Trump administration’s proposed budget for the U.S. Department of Education as a “more concerted effort to channel dollars more directly to the needs of children and families instead of to programs and to districts.” CER Founder and CEO Jeanne Allen noted that not only does the budget add $1 billion in Title ...