Florida expands virtual education with physical limitations
Florida expanded its virtual learning horizon today, even as it once again reminded us that age-old education boundaries won’t easily...
Read More >A constructive look inside the classroom, but a word of caution
The Florida House today passed a landmark teacher pay and tenure bill -- one Gov. Rick Scott said he will sign it into...
Read More >A public-private accord in Florida with jaw-dropping implications for online learning
A Florida House committee was treated Tuesday to a high-level discussion of digital learning that included the likes of former...
Read More >Rattling the constitutional cage
Ron Meyer is the longtime attorney for the Florida Education Association who has succeeded in getting Florida’s original school voucher...
Read More >Mr. Secretary, we don't drown students in Florida
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan brings an intellectual heft and a genuine compassion to his job, which is why he can’t be excused for his duplicitous talk on learning options for poor children.
That word, duplicitous, is unusually harsh. So please allow me to try to defend it with three of his own statements, made all within a 29-minute span, to a distinguished audience at former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's National Summit on Education Reform in Washington earlier this month.
Read More >Florida Gov.-elect Rick Scott embraces choice
Gov.-elect Rick Scott got some national attention last week while speaking at an event celebrating the companies that so far...
Read More >How CEOs can become a force for education reform
Florida is one of seven states with no personal income tax, which explains why its Tax Credit Scholarship for low-income...
Read More >Private schools with public students need oversight
Fordham reasoned that the more a private school begins through its percentage of voucher or tax credit scholarship students to look like a public school, the more it needs to be regulated like one. That seems fair enough as a working guideline. In Florida, where we have 33,000 tax credit scholarship students who make up on average only 17 percent of the total enrollment in their private schools, the sliding scale approach seems entirely reasonable.
Read More >Choices are reshaping Florida's educational landscape, and the nation is taking notice
Roughly one of every three public schoolchildren in Florida now attend a school other than the one tied to their zip code.
Read More >The power of a genuinely bipartisan approach
“In this one place,” said Bush, “we can put aside the partisan divide and make things happen.”
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