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Florida schools roundup: Gifted students, middle school math & more

Gifted needs: Central Florida school districts have few options to challenge young, highly gifted students. Orlando Sentinel. Literacy: A Polk County high school senior loves reading so much, she spends her free time collecting and distributing books to elementary school students struggling with reading. The Ledger. Math: Florida’s most critical K-12 need is improving middle school math,… Read more »

Florida scholarship program has only enriched its students

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.

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 »

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 »