About The Author

Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is senior director of thought leadership and growth at Step Up For Students. He lives in Sanford, Florida, with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.
06/23/15
Travis Pillow
Florida's Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts could potentially serve three times as many special needs students next year, under the budget signed...
Read More >
06/23/15
Travis Pillow
Florida's charter schools are growing, but state funding that supports their facilities continues to shrink. The budget signed this morning by Gov....
Read More >
06/23/15
Travis Pillow
Charter schools. A failed Pensacola charter school faces a lawsuit by its financier. Pensacola News-Journal. New state rules would make...
Read More >
06/22/15
Travis Pillow
What happens when parents have the ability to take the state education funding associated with their children, and spend it...
Read More >
06/22/15
Travis Pillow
State budget. Florida lawmakers approve a spending plan that would boost funding for public schools. Times/Herald. Some North Florida districts won't...
Read More >
06/21/15
Travis Pillow
Between now and August, lots of ink will be spilled on the changes that swept through New Orleans in the...
Read More >
06/19/15
Travis Pillow
Charter schools. Applicants who seek to build new charter schools may soon have to disclose their histories. StateImpact. redefinED. Naples Daily...
Read More >
06/18/15
Travis Pillow
Earlier this year, state lawmakers advanced bills aimed at helping districts root out charter school applicants with a history of operating...
Read More >
06/18/15
Travis Pillow
Growth. The Hillsborough district puts off plans for a new middle school to focus its resources on accommodating enrollment growth...
Read More >
06/17/15
Travis Pillow
An expansion of Florida's Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts wasn't the only school choice-related issue that found new life in a state...
Read More >
magnifiercross linkedin facebook pinterest youtube rss twitter instagram facebook-blank rss-blank linkedin-blank pinterest youtube twitter instagram