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06/30/25 | Lisa Buie

Charter Schools USA and Step Up For Students join forces to expand options for Florida students

Two of the leading organizations in Florida’s united education choice movement are joining forces to expand access to learning opportunities at charter schools across the state. The collaboration between Charter Schools USA and Step Up For Students will give Florida’s education choice scholarship students access to individual classes at 62...
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07/09/25 | Roger Mooney
Books, banners, boats and National Merit Scholarships
CLEARWATER, Fla.– They are honor students and athletes. Volunteers in the community and student ambassadors at school. One is a champion sailor who has competed in the national and international regattas... READ MORE
07/08/25 | Roger Mooney
From Snowed in to Sunny Side: Joseph’s journey to self-enrichment
TITUSVILLE, Florida – Coach Mustard did it. Not the deed that formed the plot of the Temple Christian School’s production of “Get a Clue.” That might have been Scarlett Starr.... READ MORE
07/08/25 | Matthew Ladner
Education reform has 99 problems…
A recent interview by Tyler Cowen of John Arnold has been making the rounds in ed reform circles, see Michael Goldstein’s write up here. Here is a taste of the... READ MORE
07/02/25 | Lauren May
President signs education choice bill into law
Editor’s note: This story has been updated after President Donald Trump signed the bill.  Education choice, which has long been the domain of statehouses, is now enshrined in federal law.... READ MORE
07/01/25 | Lisa Buie
Charter schools are eager to seize opportunities created by education customization
ORLANDO, Fla. — The whiplash of uncertainty has buffeted the nation’s charter school movement during the past five years. First, COVID-19 disrupted learning for millions of students . That was,... READ MORE
06/24/25 | Matthew Ladner
Technocrats wear a political dunce crown
David Osborne recently predicted academic doom for red states having recently passed universal private choice programs. “This will accelerate the process of the rich getting richer while the poor fall... READ MORE
06/17/25 | Matthew Ladner
Imagine if the District of Columbia Public Schools gave peace a chance in special education
“War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing” — Edwinn Starr, “War” The District of Columbia Public School system has a troubled history with special education. In reviewing... READ MORE
06/11/25 | Roger Mooney
Tadpoles, robots, and sewing machines all part of this family’s hybrid-homeschool experience
Seppie Furlano gets dirty at school. It happens. He’s 8, he’s a boy, and one day a week, his classroom is a mixture of trees, shrubs, dirt, and mud. And... READ MORE
06/10/25 | Matthew Ladner
New Schools, facilities and the rise of the microschool
    EdChoice has an interesting survey question comparing what sort of school parents would prefer (district, charter, private or home) and comparing the results to actual enrollment patterns. In... READ MORE
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07/08/25 | Roger Mooney

From Snowed in to Sunny Side: Joseph’s journey to self-enrichment

TITUSVILLE, Florida – Coach Mustard did it. Not the deed that formed the plot of the Temple Christian School’s production of “Get a Clue.” That might have been Scarlett Starr. Or not. The play is a mystery. On the surface, Coach Mustard helped solve the mystery. But there was something else going... READ MORE
05/27/25 | Ron Matus
A Montessori microschool for deaf students – and a sign of things to come
CLEARWATER, Fla. – More than 20 years ago, Julie Rutenberg and Colette Derks harnessed some of the first private school choice programs in America to create a bespoke little school... READ MORE
05/01/25 | Ron Matus
For this former public school educator, starting a microschool was a dream come true
  SARASOTA, Fla. – Alison Rini thought her destiny was to be the principal at a traditional public school. She had been the principal at a charter school, the assistant... READ MORE
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03/17/25 | Ron Matus

On track to accelerate as education choice expands

A unique online school focused on the needs of elite motocross competitors shows the power of education freedom. READ MORE
11/13/24 | Lisa Buie

Rising parent demand stretches Florida’s Personalized Education Program to its limit for 2024-25

Florida’s scholarship program for K-12 students who don’t attend school full-time has turned on the “no vacancy” sign. The Personalized Education Program operates as an education savings account that allocates an average of $8,000 per student for approved education-related expenses. It has reached its statutory capacity of 60,000 students for... READ MORE
03/10/25 | Ron Matus
Where kids still play in the woods
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – Millions of students in American public schools are lucky if they get 30 minutes of recess a day. But the students at Wild Oak Explorers spend... READ MORE
12/18/24 | Ron Matus
This educator skipped the traditional teacher route and headed straight into entrepreneurship
DAVENPORT, Fla. – Valeria Oquendo didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. “Ms. V,” as her students call her, had wanted to be a teacher since she was a teenager.... READ MORE
12/04/24 | Matthew Ladner
Surpluses are just a party, and parties…
During World War II the British kept a group of stately manors for high-ranking German military prisoners. The British treated them well in these gilded cages, giving them full access... READ MORE
11/26/24 | Lisa Buie
‘If you don’t innovate, you will stagnate’: Florida charter schools urged to evolve
Education is no longer about students sitting in rows of desks from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. And school choice, the term supporters used for years to describe the movement... READ MORE
10/15/24 | Matthew Ladner
Families adapt to the dysfunctional K-12 system — if they can afford it
Education Next published a piece recently by Holly Korbey called The Tutoring Revolution, which reads in part: Recent research suggests that the number of students seeking help with academics is... READ MORE
06/10/24 | Lisa Buie
School field trips making a comeback as education savings accounts allow more opportunities to learn by doing
TAMPA, Florida — The 22 high schoolers at Integrity Tabernacle Christian Academy donned their school T-shirts and left at dawn for the two-hour bus trip from near Orlando to ride... READ MORE
04/22/24 | Doug Tuthill
Education Choice and Learning by Doing
Some of the most valuable learning experiences happen outside the classroom. Public education is evolving to support more learning by doing. READ MORE
04/09/24 | Matthew Ladner
MatchED and the way of the future for permissionless education
In the early days of education savings accounts, several of our intrepid Scooby-gang members wrote and spoke about user reviews as the future of “accountability.” In a multi-vendor system, we... READ MORE
02/27/24 | Travis Pillow
Florida parents and educators may be building the education value networks of the future
  Despite calls for reform and waves of attempted transformation, key features of American schools have been remarkably stable for more than a century. Students spend six or so hours... READ MORE
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