Florida parent trigger debate didn't bring out best from established parent groups
Amidst all the inflated rhetoric that defined the debate over Florida's parent trigger bill, one persistent claim stood out as particularly jarring: the...
Read More >McKay voucher supporters look to up its game
A couple weeks ago, Scott Jensen, the senior governmental affairs advisor for the American Federation for Children, came down to the Sunshine...
Read More >Florida Legislature passes expansion of tax credit scholarships
Minutes after a dramatic 20-20 tie shot down Florida's parent trigger bill, the state senate voted 32-8 - and virtually...
Read More >Christian Dallavis, working to revitalize Catholic schools - podcastED
Catholic schools used to be neighborhood schools. Many of them served immigrant familes. But since 2000 alone, more than 1,700 have closed in...
Read More >Not all bad apples spoil the whole bunch
A year after I began work as an education reporter, I witnessed a classroom scene so shocking, it haunts me to this...
Read More >Sorry, but you got it wrong: redefinED introduces rebuttED
Last week, the Tampa Bay Times, the biggest newspaper in Florida, published a front-page story about Jeb Bush's still-substantial influence...
Read More >Florida, superstar athletes and school choice - Deion Sanders joins the lineup
Coincidence or not, an impressive roster of superstar professional athletes with strong Florida ties have become major league champions for school choice....
Read More >redefinED roundup: parent triggers in Florida, voucher studies in Milwaukee and more
Editor's note: We're going to try something new this morning - a quickie roundup of recent headlines that we think...
Read More >Glen Gilzean, pro-voucher school board member in Florida - podcastED
As maybe the only pro-voucher school board member in Florida, and one of the few in the country, it could get awfully intense...
Read More >'Maybe I should be more territorial, but I'm simply not'
Two more signs in the past week that the world is changing in ways that make sense to us: * In...
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