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• Louisiana Court Rules Against School Choice, But Educational Opportunity Moves Forward

  
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  Andre Jenny Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom After a series of school choice victories across the nation, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a disappointing ruling this Tuesday when it upheld a lower court’s ruling invalidating the state’s school voucher program. With a 6-1 vote, the higher court declared ...
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• Why The US Has Gone Down Hill

  
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  This video really hits on why in my opinion the country has changed for the worse in fifty years.  We have destroyed the moral upbringing of two generations of Americans going back to 1962.  If there is any single moment that set the decline in motion, I think that was it.   Click here to view the embedded ...
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• School Choice in Louisiana Now

  
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• Indiana expands school voucher program | DFW Catholic

  
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  DFW Catholic : Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Gregory S. Baylor, whose organization argued for the constitutionality of the program, defended it on the grounds that “parents should be able to choose what’s best for their own children.” “The ultimate winners in the Indiana Supreme Court’s decision ...
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• Public not buying what Rep. Robin Vos is Selling; Transit good, but paying salaries and benefits bad. What a jobs program.

  
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  Maybe Speaker Robin Vos should get out more? He held his first district listening session, and only 25 people showed up. Vos jumped right in and touted the wonders of choice and vouchers: Mt. Pleasant Patch: But Vos former high school teacher, Tim Mocarski, challenged The No Answer Man. Vos by ...
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• Kansas needs to focus on growth when wrapping up session

  
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  As the Kansas Legislature prepares to end its 2013 session, budgetary and taxation issues remain to be resolved. It’s important that the legislature resolve these issues in a way that positions Kansas for economic growth , rather than retaining the policies that have led to stagnation compared to other states . ...
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• A Tale of Two Surveys: Dougco Embraces Reform, Colo. Reluctant on New K-12 Taxes

  
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  A great classic novel my big friends tell me I need to read someday starts with a famous line . I’m talking about Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities : It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness; it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of ...
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• Louisiana Voucher Remains Legal, AFC Urges Legislature To Resolve Funding Issue

  
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  The American Federation for Children , the nation’s voice for educational choice, today urged the Louisiana Legislature and Governor to find a legislative solution after the Louisiana Supreme Court struck down the current funding mechanism for state’s voucher program. The Court only ruled against the funding of ...
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• Mapping billionaires and charter schools

  
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  While much of the activism for charter schools occurs at the local and state levels, the money funding the movement is unquestionably national.
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• Another step in saga of Swedish home-schooling family | One News Now

  
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  One News Now : Roger Kiska, legal counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, explains the states point of view. “They’re absolutely oppressive with regard to parental rights. They believe that the only duty of the parents basically is to give birth and then the child belongs to the state,” he tells American Family ...
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• NHCIS - Charter school news and updates

  
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  Greetings charter school supporters!   Its National Charter School Week and we have a number of charter school updates for you.   Governor visits Manchester Charter School   Senate Finance examines HB2   Legislators visit Academy for Science and Design in Nashua   Please show your support for public ...
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• School Choice Results Trend Positive in New Study

  
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  School choice programs empower parents to choose the schools their children attend―public or private―by allowing parents to direct a portion of public education funding for their child through tax credits, scholarships, vouchers, and education savings accounts. School choice programs are … Continue reading →
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• Wall Street ♥ charter schools

  
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  Call them cynical, but the widespread involvement of financial firms in the charter school movement raises suspicion among many public school advocates.
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• School Choice: Fix our schools to erase poverty

  
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  By John Conlin, Founder End The Education Plantation The single most accurate indicator of a child’s academic performance in the United States is their family’s income. The poorer the family, the poorer the academic performance of their children. I know people who believe it’s okay that schools serving poor ...
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• Stop blaming poor parents, empower them with school choice

  
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  By T. Willard Fair President and CEO Urban League of Greater Miami, Inc. There has long been a troubling attitude in our society about low-income parents. Put bluntly, it goes like this: Poor people make poor parents. Of course, folks in proper circles usually don’t come right out and say it, which is what ...
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• Bactrim Without A Prescription » Online Pharmacy FDA Recommended

  
  Cascade Policy Institute - Oregon Public Policy — Authority: 479
  Zyprexa without a prescription , School choice programs empower parents to choose the schools their children attend―public or private―by allowing parents to direct a portion of public education funding for their child through tax credits, scholarships, vouchers, and education savings accounts. School choice ...
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• Christie faces potential legal fight over school vouchers

  
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  Jarrett Renshaw/The Star-Ledger May 1, 2013 TRENTON — If Gov. Chris Christie gets his coveted pilot school-voucher program through a stubborn Legislature next month, he may quickly find himself battling in another arena: the courtroom. The Republican governor’s proposal to allow public school students to get ...
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• TELL-ing Dougco Results: Teacher Satisfaction Mostly High and Growing

  
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  I told you yesterday that former Secretary of Education William Bennett is “very impressed” with the major innovative overhaul going on in Douglas County School District. The district has passed 9 months now without a governing union contract , and also continues to defend a groundbreaking private choice ...
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• Exit strategy for students at closing schools hard to navigate

  
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  Edna Wilson and her granddaughter Gianee, a P.S. 64 student, protested the school’s poor quality before its closure hearing in February. Wilson is among those who were disappointed with the transfer options the city presented to students in schools that it is is phasing out. (Luke Hammill) An escape route from the ...
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• Ex-Education Secretary William Bennett Visits Dougco, “Very Impressed”

  
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  Colorado’s non-union teacher group PACE today posted some more of the results from their recent member survey. Roughly 3 out of every 4 expressed support for “a pathway for career advancement outside of the traditional, seniority-based salary schedule,” often known as a career ladder . One of their members ...
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