Florida Gov. Rick Scott: Keep Common Core, retreat on PARCC
Common Core is okay. But the new, multi-state tests aligned to them may have to go. So suggests Florida Gov. Rick...
Read More >Florida chooses a new education commissioner: Pam Stewart
Florida has a new education commissioner: Pam Stewart, a career educator widely viewed as capable and accomplished but not a...
Read More >Teacher ranks continue to grow in Florida charter schools
It’s no surprise, given rocketing growth in Florida charter school enrollment, that the number of charter school teachers is on...
Read More >Rick Hess on school choice, Common Core and for-profits in education
For those who dismiss the potential upside of for-profits in education, Rick Hess asks them to consider virtually every other...
Read More >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...
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