N.J. Alliance Launches Petition Drive for School Choice
A newly formed alliance in New Jersey has launched a drive to gather thousands of signatures in an attempt to persuade state legislators to expand parents’ school choice options in the state to include private school vouchers.
The New Jersey School Choice Alliance, a coalition of about 30 civic, education, advocacy, and religious groups, had gathered more than 75,000 signatures by last week, and planned to circulate its petitions for at least another month.
“We want to convey the support that these programs enjoy among the electorate,” said Dan Gaby, the executive director of Excellent Education for Everyone, a Newark-based group that advocates school choice. “New Jersey already has a decent amount of school choice, but we want to protect that,...
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