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.
05/06/16
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More states are creating educational choice programs, more students are using them, and lawsuits taking aim at them failed more...
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05/04/16
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More than a century before educators launched new schools for inner-city children in Orlando and Overtown, and more than a generation before...
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05/03/16
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The Florida House is likely to keep pushing for more educational choice in the coming years. Rep. Richard Corcoran, who's set...
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04/25/16
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. - Two years ago, St. Andrew's Episcopal Academy was struggling. It lost one head of school, then...
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04/18/16
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Florida has long been a leader in virtual education, and exports K-12 classes all over the globe. Now, it's also...
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04/18/16
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This week, an appeals court overturned what had been a legal victory for nine public school children suing to change...
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04/15/16
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The 160-page education bill signed into law by Gov. Rick Scott includes several little-discussed provisions whose effects will be felt in pockets...
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04/14/16
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Florida students will soon be able to cross school zones and district lines under legislation approved today by Gov. Rick Scott. HB...
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04/13/16
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The politics of charter schools start to look a bit different when public schools are struggling to absorb an influx of...
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04/11/16
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After enrolling at a small-town North Florida charter school, Micah Cook began to excel in writing competitions. He wanted to...
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