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.
07/12/18
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The League of Women Voters and the Southern Poverty Law Center are challenging the wording of a Florida ballot measure that...
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07/11/18
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Are charter schools entitled to an equal per-student share of the funding their districts raise from voter-approved property taxes? Or...
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07/10/18
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A small, single-gender charter school in Bradenton, Fla. is celebrating a remarkable turnaround. In two years' time, Visible Men Academy...
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07/10/18
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Charter funding fairness. Emboldened by a new legal opinion that rebuts an Indian River County judge's ruling in favor of...
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07/09/18
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Historical recognition. The Sisters of St. Joseph, a group of Catholic nuns who took on a racist establishment and discriminatory...
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07/06/18
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Civics testing. Education Commissioner Pam Stewart concludes Florida school districts did not break the law when they shifted state civics...
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07/05/18
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School security. Some Palm Beach County officers still live on K-12 school campuses, part of a decades-old program intended to...
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07/03/18
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The Palm Beach County School Board has proposed a new property tax levy to boost teacher salaries and pay for...
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07/03/18
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Union certification challenge. The statewide teachers union has filed a lawsuit challenging union-certification provisions of HB 7055. The law passed earlier...
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06/28/18
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Last year, Florida lawmakers created a new program called Schools of Hope. Its goals were twofold: Ratchet up the pressure...
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