Districts & Charter Schools

From school districts to charter schools, we cover public schools and the ways they are governed.

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Districts are leading Florida’s generational education transformation 

A generation ago, Florida’s school districts could safely assume that most students would board a yellow bus (or perhaps walk less than two miles) to a public school they operated.  A few wealthy students might head to a private school. A handful of students from each neighborhood might board a... READ MORE
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Florida charter schools grow – and challenge their own status quo
At the annual Florida School Choice Conference and School Choice Summit, attendees got their customary sendoff from Jim Horne, a former state senator, state education commissioner and pioneer of the...
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ProPublica goes full Dale Gribble
The television classic “King of the Hill” included a character known as Dale, who despite being a conspiracy theorist is entirely oblivious to the fact that that his wife is...
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The pursuit of educational happiness in Arizona’s Roosevelt Elementary District
Facing a multimillion-dollar deficit, the board of the Roosevelt Elementary School District in Phoenix Arizona recently began a debate over a proposal to close as many as five schools, a...
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Analysis: Florida schools boast better reading results, especially for low-income students, for less money
Florida’s public schools score among the best in the nation in nine-year-olds’ reading achievement. For low-income students, their results are the best in the nation, period. And they also deliver...
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Public schools and the looming shortage of American labor
Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has calculated a worker shortage index for each state, calculating the ratio of people looking for work...
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Florida school district offers virtual classes to scholarship students – with more to follow
This school year, 2024-2025, for the first time, Brevard County students using Florida’s education choice scholarship programs will have a new option: the ability to sign up for online courses...
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Why don’t district teachers benefit from increases in district spending?
  Recently, because this is the sort of thing your friendly neighborhood school choice mad scientist likes to do, I examined the Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction annual reports. Stick...
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‘One headline, why believe it?’
  Kate Payne of the Associated Press wrote a piece about the Madison County School District, a small rural area east of Tallahassee titled School choice and a history of...
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American education shortchanges our dudes
  Steve Malanga writing in City Journal recently made a rather chilling and well-documented case that a growing number of American men are not simply unemployed but are also unemployable....
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From school districts to education districts
The expanding number of states making flexible spending accounts (ESAs) accessible to their public education students is accelerating the transition from school choice to education choice as families spend their...
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