The aughts were a time of K-12 academic improvement. For some states, including Florida, that improvement started earlier, but included the era illustrated in this chart. All states began participating in NAEP exams in 2003. Most states experienced a pronounced improvement in eighth-grade reading and eighth-grade math from 2003 to 2009. On these tests, 10… Read more »
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New superintendents, more schools can get job grants, trafficking, taxes and more
Growth in Florida’s education choice programs accelerating
Editor’s note: The data in this post are accurate as of 5:06 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, 2019. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran announced recently that the state’s new Family Empowerment Scholarship (FES) program, enacted with bipartisan support, reached its 18,000-student enrollment cap only three months after becoming law. No education choice… Read more »
Students and mass attack tipoffs, costume concern, superintendents’ jobs and more
School safety clearinghouse, gender-neutral graduations, bonuses and more
Helping students succeed in school and life with education savings accounts
Editor’s note: Senior policy analyst Jonathan Butcher is co-editor and one of nearly two-dozen contributors to “The Not-So-Great-Society,” a new volume released today by The Heritage Foundation. Butcher’s chapter on education savings accounts, in which he explains the original Arizona model and describes how ESAs have evolved in large part due to upgrades in Florida… Read more »
FLVS changes urged, vaccination threats, lagging construction work and more
fact-checkED: Family Empowerment Scholarship not ‘a hit to public schools’
Editor’s note: This post is another in our fact-checking series, one that focuses solely within the arena of educational choice. The goal of fact-checkED is to bring clinical precision to complex issues that are easily misunderstood, aiming to counteract incorrect information before it continues to circulate. An Oct. 30 news story in the Gainesville… Read more »