Alliance for School Choice
The Alliance for School Choice is the nation's vanguard organization for promoting, implementing and enhancing K-12 educational choice. In collaboration with a host of national and state allies, we create opportunities for systemic and sustainable educational reform that puts parents in charge
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IES Report Shows OSP Students Benefiting from Program
- By Alliance for School Choice
- Published 06/21/2007
- Commentaries and Reports
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Today, the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), an independent arm of the United States Department of Education, released its first-year evaluation of the Washington, D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program (OSP). The report shows academic progress in some subgroups and very high parent satisfaction with the program.
GOV. SONNY PERDUE SIGNS GEORGIA SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOLARSHIP INTO LAW
- By Alliance for School Choice
- Published 05/18/2007
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Gov. Sonny Perdue signed the Georgia Special Needs Scholarship into law today, opening the door to a better education for thousands of Georgia students with disabilities. The law, previously passed by the state Senate and General Assembly, creates a scholarship program that will allow children with special needs to attend the public or private school that best meets their educational needs.
COALITION DEMANDS SECRETARY SPELLINGS ENFORCE NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND TRANSFER PROVISIONS
- By Alliance for School Choice
- Published 01/30/2007
- Commentaries and Reports , School Choice
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A broad coalition of policymakers and community advocates have urged Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings to take action against school districts that refuse to comply with the student transfer provisions outlined in the No Child Left Behind Act. Leaders of 25 state and national policy organizations sent their request through a letter to Spellings on Friday.
