Plenty of upside for AP push
Every few months, a major media outlet writes an expose about Advanced Placement classes. The stories (like this one and...
Read More >Next week: A live chat with Rick Hess
Nothing gets critics of school choice and education reform more riled up than the specter of privatization. The response from...
Read More >Dr. King, the Dream & educational progress
Fifty years ago next week, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I Have A Dream” speech to 250,000 people...
Read More >A little context for a rough patch in Florida ed reform
Between 2011 and 2012, the number of Florida high school graduates passing college-caliber Advanced Placement exams jumped from 36,707 to...
Read More >Enrollment trends in FL private schools
We reported last month that Florida’s private school enrollment numbers are rising again. And that’s true. But trend lines beneath the...
Read More >Next week: A chat with Doug Tuthill
School choice in general is in the news a lot nowadays. And lately and more specifically, so is Florida’s tax...
Read More >Democrats emerge for school choice
There’s no doubt many Democrats reflexively give vouchers and charter schools short shrift because of how successfully those school choice...
Read More >Florida schools roundup: school grades, parent power, Jeb Bush & more
Charter schools. Pasco's Dayspring Academy, where state Sen. John Legg is an administrator, puts off expansion plans for a year. Gradebook....
Read More >Florida roundup: Rick Scott, charter schools, Stand Your Ground & more
Charter schools. A new charter school began readying a building for use before checking with the city of Lauderdale Lakes,...
Read More >Florida schools roundup: school grades, Common Core, Trayvon Martin & more
School grades. The Board of Education's decision "reeks," writes Beth Kassab. Sherman Dorn's take (which includes a pitch for grading private schools...
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