Lawmakers praise Fifth Third Bank for decision to resume support of tax credit scholarships
Within an hour of Fifth Third Bank's announcement via a press release that it will continue to fund scholarships for...
Read More >Fifth Third Bank announces continued support of scholarships for low-income students in Florida
A week after exiting a scholarship program for economically disadvantaged children over what it cited as anti-LGBTQ policies at a...
Read More >Espinoza may not be the game changer some are predicting
It seems especially appropriate midway through National School Choice Week to ask: Can the use of state “Blaine Amendments” to...
Read More >Charter schools continue to rule Florida's education choice landscape
As the 10th annual National School Choice Week celebration kicks off, Step Up For Students unveils its 11th annual “Changing...
Read More >DOE: Majority of scholarship program schools pass accountability muster
The Office of Independent Education and Parental Choice at the Florida Department of Education visited more than 200 private schools...
Read More >Public support for education choice continues to surge as some presidential candidates swim upstream
While the reasons for Democratic presidential candidate and leading anti-charter stalwart Elizabeth Warren’s nearly 13-point polling plummet are multifaceted, a...
Read More >Florida DOE includes ed choice expansion in strategic plan
Following disappointing results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released in October, the Florida Department of Education remained optimistic...
Read More >94 percent of FTC students earned high school diplomas in 2018-19
Graduation rates for students in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program declined slightly in 2018-19 according to a new report...
Read More >NAEP 2019: Where does Florida stand?
Year-to-year student achievement will always fluctuate, but how does Florida stand in the larger picture? While results from the 2019...
Read More >NAEP 2019: Florida maintains high marks despite national slide
In a statement released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos called 2019 NAEP results...
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