About The Author

Jon East

Jon East is special projects director for Step Up For Students. Previously, he was a member of the editorial board and the Sunday commentary editor at the St. Petersburg Times, Florida’s largest daily newspaper, where he wrote about education issues for most of his 28 years at the paper. He was also a reporter and editor at the Evening Independent and Ocala Star-Banner. He earned a journalism degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
10/14/11
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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush opened his national education conference in San Francisco today with an impassioned plea for national...
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09/19/11
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Assessing the academic performance of any public education program is no easy task, but Atlanta Journal-Constitution editorialist Jay Bookman does...
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08/31/11
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A new report on the academic performance of low-income students receiving Tax Credit Scholarships in Florida finds they are making...
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08/01/11
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Reasonable people can disagree over whether government should be paying for children to attend religious schools, but Florida’s latest ballot...
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07/05/11
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The Indiana State Teachers' Association filed suit last week over the state's new school voucher law, and we are about...
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06/10/11
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Amid my overly academic analysis of the Southern Education Report report on Georgia’s flawed Tax Credit Scholarship law, I failed...
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06/10/11
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The Southern Education Foundation’s new and scathing report on the Georgia Tax Credit Scholarship does veer into some unfortunate doctrinaire...
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06/02/11
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No doubt, the decision to grant private learning options for public school students is a tough one for any lawmaker...
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05/11/11
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Let's be clear. The American Federation For Children spends significant sums of money to elect candidates who support educational options,...
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05/10/11
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To hear former D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee tell it, even a politically charged issue such as private options can...
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