Florida roundup: Funding, testing, tax credit scholarships and more

08/22/14
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Travis Pillow

Tax credit scholarships. The Palm Beach Post criticizes this year's school choice legislation in an editorial.

Charter schools. WPTV scrutinizes Charter Schools USA's real estate operations.

florida-roundup-logoFunding. Gov. Rick Scott promises record funding for schools in the midst of a re-election battle. Associated Press. Times/Herald. Palm Beach Post.

Campaigns. Partisan politics rear their head in a supposedly nonpartisan Hernando school board race. Tampa Bay Times. The Florida Times-Union looks at school board campaigns in Putnam and Baker Counties.

School boards. The Palm Beach Post examines possible Sunshine violations by the local school board.

Budgets. School district employees' travel comes under scrutiny in Pasco. Tampa Bay Times. A Marion school board member reverses course on restoring funding to arts programs. Ocala Star-Banner.

Testing. Is opting out really an option for parents? Palm Beach Post.

Superintendents. Clay County's showdown over elected-vs-appointed heads to court. Florida Times-Union.

Tutoring. An audit finds problems with supplemental instruction for low-income children at a Lee County school. Fort Myers News-Press.

Security. A school administrator saves a student from an on-campus attack. Palm Beach Post.

Growth. The Santa Rosa district sees larger than expected enrollment increases. Pensacola News-Journal.

About Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is senior director of thought leadership and growth at Step Up For Students. He lives in Sanford, Florida, with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.
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