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.
03/03/15
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The Alabama Supreme Court on Monday rejected a constitutional challenge to a scholarship program that bears striking similarity to Florida’s...
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01/26/15
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To comprehend the pace at which Florida parents are choosing education options for their children, look no further than charter...
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12/22/14
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Editor's Note: The following commentary was published today on the Georgia Public Policy Foundation Forum. It is in response to...
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11/03/14
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Teacher unions have sufficiently tarnished the word “voucher” in the public education arena that they insist on using it even...
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10/20/14
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Florida Education Association Vice President Joanne McCall has an obvious motive to discredit the nonprofit that administers a scholarship program she...
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10/09/14
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The average household income of K-12 schoolchildren on Florida’s tax credit scholarship dropped by nearly $700 this year, placing it...
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08/28/14
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If truth is the first casualty of war, then Florida School Boards Association executive director Wayne Blanton may have been...
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08/06/14
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Give Joanne McCall credit for acknowledging that the Florida Education Association opposes private learning options for both low-income and special...
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06/30/14
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The private school voucher Gov. Jeb Bush signed into law 15 years ago as part of his sweeping education reform...
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04/11/14
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Editor's note: This post recently appeared as an op-ed in the Gainesville Sun. It was published before the House proposal was changed...
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