Charter schools. New authorizing standards are intended to help improve the quality of Florida’s charter schools. Naples Daily News. A Manatee charter celebrates its success. Bradenton Herald. Charter schools are growing. Tampa Bay Times. Common Core. New math lessons may go viral and stoke parent outrage, but that’s “more bluster than substance,” Orlando Sentinel columnist Beth… Read more »
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Florida charter school advocates: Focus on quality, stop bad schools
Florida’s charter school movement needs to turn its attention to quality, and its prognosis could turn grim if bad schools aren’t stopped. That was the case laid out by some of the state’s leading charter school advocates at the start of a three-day conference in Orlando. Some of the strongest warnings came from Jim Horne, a former state Senator… Read more »
Florida schools roundup: Lawsuits, campaigns, testing and more
School choice. A Jacksonville TV station interviews scholarship student Denisha Merriweather. A Washington Times column and a Chicago Defender column tout the benefits of Florida’s tax credit scholarships, North Carolina vouchers, and other school choice programs. Campaigns. School choice groups get involved in more school board elections. Orlando Sentinel. Much of their spending is on political mail. Saint Petersblog. Florida’s… Read more »
Florida schools roundup: Testing, technology, free speech and more
Testing. Broward district officials and national teachers union leaders make a unified plea on testing and teacher evaluations. Miami Herald. Sun-Sentinel. StateImpact. The Sun-Sentinel reports on Palm Beach schools’ decision to reduce testing in its schools. Technology. A “high tech” middle school surprises teachers with iPads. Sun-Sentinel. Campaigns. A brouhaha over Brevard school board campaign signs now rests… Read more »
Florida schools roundup: Campaigns, facilities, STEM and more
Campaigns. StateImpact compares the education plans of gubernatorial contenders Charlie Crist and Rick Scott. Florida’s governor’s races is among the targets of teachers unions’ campaign operations. Intercepts. School boards. A 20-year Hillsborough school board veteran is poised to retire. Tampa Tribune. STEM. Science programs help students improve their problem-solving skills. Florida Today. Duval middle schools… Read more »
Florida roundup: Lawsuits, charter schools, Teach for America and more
Tax credit scholarships. A recent college graduate explains in a Wall Street Journal column how the program helped her get back on track. More from StateImpact. Lawsuits. Florida’s teachers union revives its lawsuit challenging Florida school choice legislation. redefinED. News Service of Florida. Associated Press. Miami Herald. Gradebook. Charter schools. The Sun-Sentinel highlights a spate of recent charter closures in South Florida. The mayor of West Palm Beach says… Read more »
Florida roundup: Charter schools, campaigns, STEM and more
Charter schools. Collier families have few charter options available. Naples Daily News. Palm Beach charter schools are scrutinized for racial balance. Palm Beach Post. Only one charter school application remains on the table in Sarasota County as other applicants withdraw. Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Campaigns. The Tampa Tribune notes charter schools and tax credit scholarships are two… Read more »
Mr. Gibbons’ Report Card: Never getting beyond the rhetoric while Americans United fumbles the facts
Jack Schneider and Julian Vasquez-Heilig: Jack Schneider, an education historian and professor at Holy Cross, is correct that education and education reform are incredibly difficult policy arenas – perhaps even harder than rocket science, as he argues. This complexity is why some education reformers are wrong to think they can improve education by simply by… Read more »
The uncritical Core
Does the Common Core implicate school choice? The answer might be important one way or another in the national effort to empower lower-income families to decide for their own children. Much of the effect of the reform could depend, first, upon disparate reactions of individual states; second, upon potentially conflicting responses to any such diversity… Read more »
Report: School vouchers saved taxpayers $1.7 billion
Private school vouchers have saved taxpayers more than $1.7 billion since 1990, with nearly half of that coming from Florida’s McKay Scholarship for students with disabilities, according to a new report by the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. The School Voucher Audit by Jeff Spalding, former CFO of the City of Indianapolis, takes a sophisticated… Read more »
