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PREPARING TO MAKE A CHOICE SCHOOL SELECTION PROCESS CAN BE A SOURCE OF ANXIETY FOR PARENTS OF SOME PUPILS
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It will be several years before these children don caps and gowns
and accept their diplomas, but school administrators are already
welcoming the Class of 2014, the roughly 700 pupils who will begin
kindergarten in Framingham this fall.
Perhaps even more anxious about that prospect than the students
themselves are the parents, many of whom will spend the next few
months navigating Fram ingham's school-choice program, a source of
controversy among some residents who say the policy causes...
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Choice has fostered greater racial balance in private schools
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Barbara Miner's commentary ("Just how integrated are private schools here?" Dec. 19) begins: "A new urban myth is circulating in Milwaukee: The private schools are integrated and racially balanced." She then misrepresents, misconstrues and misreads a recent study of ours. Who does Miner claim says
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School choice is GOP issue with strong minority appeal.(Nation)(News Analysis)
The Washington Times
; For the House's most powerful Republicans, it was sweet vindication: two dozen inner-city blacks raucously applauding one of the GOP's prime legislative initiatives. School choice is what parents want and they deserve it now, said Barbara Lewis, an Indianapolis mother of three who put her
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The Constitutional Parameters of School Choice*
Brigham Young University Law Review
; I. INTRODUCTION In a conference about school choice, it is somewhat perverse that it is even necessary to have an article addressing constitutional issues. After all, the United States is a nation doctrinally committed to parental hegemony1 and educational opportunity,2 and school choice advances
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Blacks increasingly support school choice, poll says Parents want something done, Fuller says
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; While the courts struggle with whether Milwaukee's expanded school choice program is constitutionally valid, support for parental choice is growing fast among African-Americans, results of a recently released national poll show. The Joint Center for Economic and Political Studies, considered by
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The economics of school choice By not challenging inaccurate perceptions of capitalism and of economics, voucher backers risk losing
Chicago Sun-Times
; It's a paradox that is causing increasing alarm among the advocates of school choice: While polls show increasing majorities of parents -- especially black and other nonwhite parents -- favor school choice, little progress is being made legislatively. After the U.S. Supreme Court victory for school
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