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School choice success for Nebraska: Great for all students

May 31, 2023
  • ESAs aren’t vouchers – and yes, Texans need them

    May 31, 2023
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    Special report: Insights from first-ever survey of Black educational entrepreneurs

    Editor’s note: This report was compiled by Denisha Merriweather, founder of Black Minds Matter and senior fellow at the American Federation for Children; Dava Cherry, former director for enterprise data and research at Step Up For Students; and Ron Matus, director for research and special projects at Step Up For[Read More…]

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    School choice’s window of opportunity

    Editor’s note: This commentary from Lindsey M. Burke, director, Center for Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation, and Jason Bedrick, research fellow at the center, appeared Wednesday on The Heritage Foundation’s website. In his essay “Opening Doors for School Choice,” Rick Hess has offered characteristically sage and sober advice to[Read More…]

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    How education choice scholarship moved Florida student’s life from chaos to calm

    PINELLAS PARK – David Facey remembers sitting in his Language Arts class last year hoping for salvation. Hoping someone would pull the fire alarm. Drastic, yes, but anything to bring class to an end. The other students were nearly finished with their writing assignment. David had written only three words. His[Read More…]

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    How school choice can address students’ mental health challenges

    Editor’s note: This commentary from Mallori Wigent, a graduate of Indiana’s school choice programs and a 2022 Future Leaders Fellow with the American Federation for Children, is an exclusive to reimaginED. In 2020, everyone in the world faced the same life-altering issue: the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s been three years since[Read More…]

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    Celebrating capstone career of Mike Sullivan

    Veritas Preparatory Academy, a founding member of the prestigious Great Hearts Academy in the Phoenix metropolitan area, held a joyous retirement ceremony for one of its founding faculty members, Mike Sullivan, on May 20. Great Hearts recruited Sullivan, a 60-year-old attorney living in Wisconsin, to teach Latin and Greek. Sullivan[Read More…]

School choice’s window of opportunity

June 2, 2023

How education choice scholarship moved Florida student’s life from chaos to calm

June 2, 2023

How school choice can address students’ mental health challenges

June 1, 2023

Celebrating capstone career of Mike Sullivan

June 1, 2023

School choice success for Nebraska: Great for all students

May 31, 2023

ESAs aren’t vouchers – and yes, Texans need them

May 31, 2023
 

Analysis

Special report: Insights from first-ever survey of Black educational entrepreneurs

June 4, 2023
  • An early look at microschooling in America

    April 25, 2023
  • Black parents open to new forms of schooling, EdChoice poll suggests

    April 19, 2023
  • Number of students participating in Florida scholarship programs continues to rise

    April 19, 2023

Features

How education choice scholarship moved Florida student’s life from chaos to calm

June 2, 2023
  • Long bus ride worth chance for Catholic school education

    May 26, 2023
  • With nowhere to turn, Florida mom started her own school for students on the autism spectrum

    May 19, 2023
  • Tampa dad’s tuneless singing strikes chord for improved student literacy

    May 16, 2023
 

News

Struggling Florida middle school turned over to charter company after state ultimatum

May 17, 2023
  • Bipartisan federal legislation will assist growth of new charter schools, expand existing schools

    May 10, 2023
  • A look back at the 2023 Florida legislative session

    May 9, 2023
  • Florida charter school teacher among winners of national Changemaker Award

    May 5, 2023

Opinion

School choice’s window of opportunity

June 2, 2023
  • How school choice can address students’ mental health challenges

    June 1, 2023
  • Celebrating capstone career of Mike Sullivan

    June 1, 2023
  • School choice success for Nebraska: Great for all students

    May 31, 2023
 

Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Is school choice an ‘attack’ on public education?

Editor’s note: This commentary from Frederick Hess, director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, appeared today on washingtonexaminer.com. The disruptions of the

May 30, 2023
  • South Florida parents’ entrepreneurship now offering Jewish students with unique abilities opportunity to shine

    May 30, 2023
  • Florida Virtual School launches AI learning pathways for high school students

    May 24, 2023
  • podcastED: Florida Virtual School manager hopes new courses will teach students to embrace AI

    May 24, 2023
  • Taking charge of your children’s education

    May 16, 2023
 

National Education Legislation & Policy

On education, stop treating children like political footballs

Editor’s note: This commentary from Denisha Allen, a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and founder of Black Minds Matter, appeared Monday on

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
  • Arkansas becomes fifth state with broad K-12 choice

    March 6, 2023
  • Arizona, Iowa, Utah, W Virginia (and ???) want YOU, young families!

    February 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

A parent’s story: Oklahoma scholarship program helped my child see how special she is

Editor’s note: This first-person essay from Oklahoma mother Kelli Bruemmer was adapted from the American Federation for Children’s Voices for Choice website. From a very

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
  • A parent’s story: New Mexico virtual charter school offers academic rigor, flexibility

    November 1, 2022
  • A parent’s story: Nevada Opportunity Scholarship changed our family’s course

    October 27, 2022
 

Voices for Education Choice

Word for Word: Martin Luther King III shares his father’s advice at 2016 Florida rally for education choice

  Editor’s note: Seven years ago this week, 10,000 supporters marched on Tallahassee to fight for the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program, which was the

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
  • Commentary: It’s no wonder Osceola County’s charter schools are booming

    September 15, 2021
 

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