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Florida’s education choice opportunity
Editor’s note: This commentary from Jason Bedrick, a research fellow with The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, appeared Sunday on dailysignal.com. Florida long has been a leading state for education freedom and choice. It was no surprise when Florida ranked first in the nation last year in The Heritage Foundation’s inaugural Education Freedom Report Card…. Read more »
Killing DEI target of bill and roundtable, full House vote Thursday on H.B. 1, and more
Later start times for middle and high schools, phone and social media limits, and more
ESAs’ surge is decades in the making, and advocates are prepared for pushback
Editor’s note: This commentary from Adam Peshek, senior director and senior fellow at Stand Together Trust, appeared today on the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s website. In the summer of 2015, I sat at my desk and Googled “health savings account providers.” At the time, I had been in states across the country advocating for creation… Read more »
Entrepreneurs say ‘perfect storm’ of luck, pluck needed to clear school location hurdle
Rabbi Isaac Melnick likes to call it “the holy grail.” Though the Orthodox Jewish leader and founder of Shorashim Academy doesn’t intend it as a religious reference, it serves an apt metaphor for what education entrepreneurs cite as their most difficult challenge: finding and securing a home to carry out their dream. “A saying from… Read more »
Book bans and bad math
School libraries: HB 1467, signed into law last year, requires school districts to catalog every book in school libraries and establish a review process for parental complaints. “Every district is interpreting it all differently,” said Jen Cousin a critic of the law and cofounder of Florida Freedom to Read. Tallahassee Democrat. Ocala Star Banner. Collier… Read more »
Teacher pay, school choice, literacy: Top priorities for 39 governors in 2023
This analysis appeared Wednesday on the 74million.org. The COVID pandemic — the topic that has dominated education conversations for the past three years — is largely missing from the State of the State addresses that governors are delivering to their legislatures this winter. Instead, state leaders are using their bully pulpits to call for bigger… Read more »
‘A better experience’ awaits students fortunate to attend this Alabama community school
A little more than three years ago, Keemarius Thomas was a rudderless middle-schooler stuck in a hardscrabble Birmingham public school. Whatever his aspirations, his prospects seemed limited by history — his own, and his ancestors’ — and his ZIP code. “I had no idea back in my other school what I was going to do,… Read more »
Filming fights prompts debate, graduation rates decline, Teachers Bill of Rights proposed and more
In the Legislature: Sen. Alexis Calatayud introduced legislation to create a Teachers Bill of Rights aimed at changing the rules around how teachers are certified, disciplined and investigated by state officials. SB 244 creates the Teacher Apprenticeship Program, introduces new eligibility criteria for the state’s Dual Enrollment Educator Scholarship and creates new requirements for the… Read more »
