Are teacher unions putting profits before people?
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the for-profit business practices of Florida’s teacher...
Read More >A memo for Jeb Bush
In a recent interview with Sal Khan, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush suggested we need a common term for concepts...
Read More >Education choice and ‘How to Be an Antiracist’
When I was a teacher union president in the early 1990s, I gave an interview with our local newspaper in...
Read More >Growth in Florida’s education choice programs accelerating
Editor’s note: The data in this post are accurate as of 5:06 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. Florida Gov. Ron...
Read More >Charter schools and the unbundling of K-12 education services
Editor’s note: This post is an edited version of a talk Step Up For Students president Doug Tuthill delivered in...
Read More >archivED: Both Democrats and Republicans have switched on education choice
Editor’s note: Each Saturday in October, redefinED is reviving a post from our archives that speaks to the rich and...
Read More >podcastED: Progress report on nation’s first ESA for public school students
The first year of a groundbreaking scholarship program foreshadowing the future of public education is in the books in Florida....
Read More >Patricia Levesque describes public education in the year 2039
If you hopped in Doc Brown’s DeLorean and traveled to the year 2039, what would your utopian public education system...
Read More >PodcastED: How education choice serves special needs students
Educational choice supporters believe that the future of public education looks a lot like growing models and services available to...
Read More >Disparities in political power undermine education equity
Those of us who are career educators know the veracity of the old saying, “Every education decision is a political...
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