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In the News

Bring out yer dead — Florida edition!

September 26, 2023
  • Innovative schools dominate Florida’s National Blue Ribbon School award winners list

    September 25, 2023
  • In the News School Choice

    Long live the public school

    Rumors of the death of public education have been greatly exaggerated. Any reader who gets past the cover of The Death of Public School: How Conservatives Won the War Over Education in America is likely to agree. The book never articulates the claim implied by its title. It does, however,[Read More…]

  • Featured School Choice

    Special report: Why Catholic schools in Florida are growing

    This paper was authored by the Step Up For Students team of Lauren May, director of advocacy and a former Catholic school teacher and principal; Patrick Gibbons, senior manager for public affairs; and Ron Matus, director of research and special projects. Read the full report. The good news: In the[Read More…]

  • Analysis Commentary and Opinion Common Ground School Choice

    Free the districts

    Over the past decade-plus, Florida has pursued multiple policy initiatives designed to free school districts from stifling bureaucracy and unhelpful rules. Each was well-intentioned. Some of them led to better learning opportunities for students. But on the whole, they were ultimately too narrow, or came with too many strings attached,[Read More…]

Innovative schools dominate Florida’s National Blue Ribbon School award winners list

September 25, 2023

Get smart fast, vol. 11

September 23, 2023

Bring Out Yer Dead!

September 22, 2023

The bowl or the meal? Charter schools could be both

September 21, 2023

School choice and district deregulation go together

September 20, 2023

Florida Islamic and Jewish leaders team up for education pluralism

September 19, 2023
 

Analysis

charter schools

Florida fully funds education choice scholarships and protects district budgets

August 17, 2023
  • Free the districts

    August 16, 2023
  • Scholarship money concept. Coins in jar with money stack step growing growth saving money investment

    Parents should know what public schools spend

    August 14, 2023
  • Education Choice Needs Transportation Freedom

    August 7, 2023

Features

Florida education choice scholarship alum has big plans for her future

July 17, 2023
  • New edTonomy app helps entrepreneurs manage the business of education

    June 26, 2023
  • Education choice scholarship puts Florida student on the path to college, military

    June 23, 2023
  • Florida Tax Credit Scholarship student has heart set on becoming a doctor

    June 16, 2023
 

News

A new generation of activists takes to the front lines of the school choice movement

August 23, 2023
  • Miami-Dade School District proposes new job perk: school choice priority for employees’ kids

    July 31, 2023
  • Catholic school art class

    Private schools raise pay, tout perks to compete during national teacher shortage

    July 26, 2023
  • After strife and delays, finally ‘fantastic news’ for Florida’s latest charter school turnaround

    July 20, 2023

Opinion

Bring out yer dead — Florida edition!

September 26, 2023
  • The school choice movement needs Eddie Van Halen level mad scientists

    September 12, 2023
  • Melon-scoop America

    September 5, 2023
  • charter schools

    Don’t blame school choice for your inability to pay teachers more

    August 31, 2023
 

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Strong Sunshine State showing among Yass Prize quarterfinalists  

The Yass Prize kicked off its 2023 education innovation competition today by announcing 64 quarterfinalists from 31 states.   Each school or learning platform that

September 14, 2023
  • Education entrepreneurs cite nonsensical local rules as greatest roadblocks to offering innovative learning alternatives

    September 14, 2023
  • Parent-directed tutoring: How Indiana’s $1,000 scholarships fight learning loss

    August 10, 2023
  • Acton Academy founder reflects on lessons learned from first-year education ‘detox’

    July 27, 2023
  • Florida’s first steps beyond the yellow bus

    July 6, 2023
 

National Education Legislation & Policy

Get smart fast, vol. 9

Who benefits from remote work? Research says that on average, remote workers are less productive from employers’ perspectives. But they may be more productive from

September 9, 2023
  • Commentary: Pennsylvania should look to ed choice states like Florida to fix its broken education system

    June 21, 2023
  • On education, stop treating children like political footballs

    May 4, 2023
  • House subcommittee hearing shows school choice is ‘rising tide that lifts all boats’

    April 24, 2023
  • GOP lawmakers tout choice as a way out of failing schools.

    April 20, 2023
 

2022 Florida Legislature

podcastED: Florida law enforcement dad grateful for scholarship expansion

On this episode, reimaginED Senior Writer Lisa Buie talks with Shawn McCormick, a Florida law enforcement officer, husband, and father of four. McCormick’s children became

June 8, 2022
  • Education bill helps more students access choice, dual enrollment, high-quality books

    June 3, 2022
  • family empowerment scholarship

    podcastED: The impact of the 2022 Florida legislative session on public education

    March 18, 2022
  • Florida lawmakers pass largest budget in state history

    March 15, 2022
  • family empowerment scholarship

    Bill establishing statewide charter school approval board, institute for innovation heads to Florida governor

    March 11, 2022
 

Heart of Choice

Florida education choice scholarship alum has big plans for her future

MARGATE, Florida – Kaylia Powell’s home life is in a constant state of flux. At times, she has lived apart from her mom and separated from

July 17, 2023
  • Column: What Florida’s school choice scholarship programs meant to me

    June 26, 2023
  • A parent’s story: Oklahoma scholarship program helped my child see how special she is

    May 3, 2023
  • A parent’s story: Private Jesuit school allowed my son to shine

    March 16, 2023
  • A parent’s story: Arizona’s education savings account opens doors for all children

    November 15, 2022
 

Voices for Education Choice

Florida’s first steps beyond the yellow bus

  Each weekday morning feels like a new nightmare.  The Echo Dot alarm goes off at 4:55 a.m. so my husband can make sure our

July 6, 2023
  • Word for Word: Martin Luther King III shares his father’s advice at 2016 Florida rally for education choice

    January 16, 2023
  • Education choice groups across the country look to students to ramp up advocacy efforts

    October 25, 2022
  • A parent’s story: How a Florida education choice scholarship may have saved my daughter’s life

    September 28, 2021
  • Hispanic students need options – now

    September 21, 2021
 

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