About The Author

Ron Matus

Ron Matus is the Senior Fellow at Step Up for Students and a former editor of redefinED. He joined Step Up in February 2012 after 20 years in journalism, including eight years as an education reporter with the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times).
07/17/18
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If you asked parents of students victimized by bullying (like this one, this one and this one) to describe the...
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06/26/18
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This is the latest post in our ongoing series on the center-left roots of school choice. Four years ago, Angela...
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05/24/18
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Forty years ago, school choice liberals started working with popular Democratic Congressman Leo Ryan to put school choice on the ballot in California. Then, tragedy struck.
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05/14/18
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More than 280,000 students attend charter schools in Florida, nearly triple the number from a decade ago. There’s probably 280,000 reasons why their parents chose charters. But many of them have stories like Crystal Fountain and her son Tay'Shaun.
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04/18/18
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The idea of accountability through school choice isn't new. School choice liberals strongly backed the idea a half century ago.
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04/02/18
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CLEWISTON, Fla. – It’s hard to think of anywhere in Florida more off the beaten path than the string of...
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03/28/18
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Florida charter schools are serving 177,000 students who are black or Hispanic. The parents of Frankie and Allen Clark enrolled them in Visible Men Academy charter school because they did not believe the district school shared their expectations for their sons.
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03/19/18
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Mangrove School in Florida, where more than half the students use school choice scholarships, stresses environmental consciousness. It's yet another example of the endless varieties of schools that might be possible with expanded school choice.
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02/13/18
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PolitiFact concludes a teachers union attack on school choice funding and accountability is Half True. But the evidence shows it's not remotely true.
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12/18/17
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More than 1,400 public school district employees are benefiting from America’s largest private school choice program. Their kids are a...
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