As Alabama introduces a scholarship program that empowers low-income parents to choose a school that best fits their children’s needs, the apprehension of traditionalists in public education is understandable. But allow me to rebut a false accusation launched at your neighbor to the south: no one who administers Florida’s scholarship for underprivileged children is profiting from it.
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Robert Enlow: Wishing for more choice, less regs
Editor’s note: Robert Enlow is the president and CEO of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice, the school choice legacy foundation of Milton and Rose D. Friedman. This is the second post in our #schoolchoiceWISH series. Google “Top Christmas Toys of 2013” and you’ll find the first result, Target, allows users to search potential presents… Read more »
redefinED roundup: LA voucher audit, TX charter school shutdown, Walton donation & more
Alabama: $19.5 million in tax credit donations have been made to scholarship organizations (Yellowhammer News). Arizona: A public school district leader says “choice is here to stay” and argues school districts need to highlight options available to students (Arizona Capital Times). Wealthier public schools may be getting a much larger benefit from the tax-credit donation… Read more »
Group to appeal denial of charter school at MacDill Air Force Base
The group that wants to open a charter school on MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., plans to fight the local school district that rejected the proposal. The Florida Charter Educational Foundation, a volunteer board based in South Florida, voted unanimously Wednesday to appeal the Hillsborough County School Board’s decision to deny the charter… Read more »
redefinED roundup: charters win in WA, voucher suit begins in NC, FL district denies military base charter & more
Alabama: Applications for the state’s new tax credit scholarship program are now open (Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund, WTVY) Arizona: Three charter schools will be shut down for poor performance (Arizona Business Journal). California: The L.A. metro area has the largest number of students attending charter schools in the nation (LA School Report). Charter school growth booms in… Read more »
Florida schools roundup: Digital learning, IB, school safety & more
Charter schools: The Hillsborough school district should expand its elementary on MacDill Air Force Base to accommodate middlerschoolers, and satisfy needs of a growing military population, writes Dan Ruth for the Tampa Bay Times. Leaders of The Schools of McKeel Academy say they do not need to rush into hiring a new superintendent. The Ledger. Officials with… Read more »
FL school board votes down MacDill AFB charter school proposal
A Florida school board has denied the application for a charter school at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, even as board members said they support the military families it would serve. “I would very much like to see MacDill have their charter school one day,” said Hillsborough County School Board member Stacy White, who… Read more »
Private school network seeks to help “the toughest of the toughest”
Rob Staley founded his private school a decade ago, with eight students he expelled himself from public school. The former public school principal wanted the “toughest of the toughest” – the gangbangers, the dropouts, the pregnant. He wanted to give them another chance at education – and life – with a school that combines faith-based… Read more »
redefinED roundup: ‘Schools of terror,’ virtual schools in Maine, charter schools in Tennessee & more
Alabama: The National School Choice Week nationwide whistle stop tour is making a trip to Alabama (AL.com). Arizona: The state superintendent of public instruction urges the state supreme court to uphold the constitutionality of education savings accounts (Arizona Daily Sun). District officials in Prescott worry a new charter school will take away its best and brightest… Read more »
FL bill proposes new way to curb charter schools
A Florida lawmaker wants to bar new charter schools if they can’t prove they’re unique. Senate Bill 452, filed last week by Sen. Jeff Clemens, D-Lake Worth, would require charter schools to meet a specific instructional need that local district schools can’t in order to obtain approval. “I think charter schools are there to serve… Read more »