About The Author

Patrick R. Gibbons

Patrick Gibbons is public affairs manager at Step Up for Students and a research fellow for the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. A former teacher, he lived in Las Vegas, Nev., for five years, where he worked as an education writer and researcher. He can be reached at (813) 498.1991 or emailed at [email protected]. Follow Patrick on Twitter: at @PatrickRGibbons and @redefinEDonline.
06/23/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
Blaine Amendments prohibiting the public support of religious schools, once used to bludgeon school choice supporters during legislative debates, is...
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05/23/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
Nearly 70 years after Brown v. Board of Education rewrote the rules of American K-12 education, pundits and academics are...
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05/18/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
Michigan’s tax-credit-funded education savings account program could save state and local governments as much as $386 million a year, according...
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04/11/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
One out of three students receiving a tax credit scholarship in the United States lives in Florida according to a...
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04/06/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
Nearly $2.5 million in Reading Scholarships were awarded to 4,961 Florida students during the 2020-21 school year according to a...
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03/23/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
The global pandemic may have caused a decline in graduation rates among Florida’s scholarship students, according to a recently released...
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03/15/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
The 2022 Florida legislative session drew to a close Monday with lawmakers passing a record $112.1 billion budget for the...
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03/10/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
The longer parents utilize education savings accounts, the more comfortable they become using scholarship funds on curriculum, tutoring and educational...
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03/02/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
Support for school choice has increased since April 2020 by 8 percentage points, from 64% to 72%,  according to a...
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02/09/22
Patrick R. Gibbons
You don’t have to go far back in time to see how much educational choice has exploded in popularity. Forty...
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