Where kids still play in the woods
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – Millions of students in American public schools are lucky if they get 30 minutes of recess...
Read More >In the most school choice rich state in America, 1 in 5 Black students now enrolled outside district schools
Three decades ago, dozens of Black families in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami enrolled their children in Florida’s first...
Read More >The nature school that’s growing environmental leaders
SARASOTA, Fla. – When Briana Santoro and her family moved to Florida in 2021, she set out to find the...
Read More >This educator skipped the traditional teacher route and headed straight into entrepreneurship
DAVENPORT, Fla. – Valeria Oquendo didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. “Ms. V,” as her students call her, had...
Read More >A microschool in farm country
McALPIN, Fla. – Maybe it stands to reason that in a remote community surrounded by hay fields and pine plantation,...
Read More >A microschool in farm country
McALPIN, Fla. – Maybe it stands to reason that in a remote community surrounded by hay fields and pine plantation,...
Read More >With help from education choice, this teacher forged a kind and curious and joyful path
SARASOTA, Fla. – After 18 years as an educator in public and private schools, Justine Wilson decided to make...
Read More >À Taste of À La Carte Learning: SALTWATER STUDIES
Editor's note: This story is one of five spotlights included in our latest special report, "A Taste of À La...
Read More >Former public school teacher who needed to ‘break free’ creates her own learning center
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Cristina Bedgood, a 15-year former public school teacher, took two years to craft plans for...
Read More >‘Alexa, how do you start a school?’
VERO BEACH, Fla. – For eight years, Danielle McLean couldn’t believe her luck. Through all of pre-school and elementary school,...
Read More >