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.
08/31/12
Jon East
Won’t Back Down is a quintessential Hollywood drama in which a teacher and parent unite to fight against the odds...
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08/22/12
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The new Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll certainly speaks to growing unrest and division on education issues in our country and,...
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08/17/12
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Florida took another meaningful step today with academic oversight of the private schools in the Tax Credit Scholarship program, releasing...
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08/02/12
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Florida education commissioner Gerard Robinson has made what appears to be an anguishing personal decision to return to his family...
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07/30/12
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Florida voters will be asked in November to remove the Blaine amendment from their state Constitution, but, despite some assertions...
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07/25/12
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Ideologues tend to exaggerate political debate, but Louisiana school superintendent John White reminded us Tuesday that rational policy is the...
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07/10/12
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While the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission will no doubt continue to reshape the campaign...
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07/06/12
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An attempt to bring a tax credit scholarship to low-income children in North Carolina succumbed to a short session and...
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06/20/12
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Give Sean Cavanagh at Education Week credit for a relatively balanced report on tax credit scholarship issues that have been...
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06/19/12
Jon East
If there were any doubt that Democratic presidential politics drove the Obama administration’s decision Monday to keep D.C. Opportunity Scholarships...
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