About The Author

Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is senior director of thought leadership and growth at Step Up For Students. He lives in Sanford, Florida, with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.
04/18/25
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In a 1997 column, the venerable progressive pistol Molly Ivins set her sights on the future of Texas education. In...
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03/31/25
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Updated March. 31, 2025 After a record-setting opening weekend in which more than 120,000 students applied for Florida K-12 scholarships,...
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03/31/25
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Good Morning, and welcome to our weekly roundup of education news from around the country. The word of the week...
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03/21/25
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Happy Friday, and welcome to our weekly roundup of education news around the country. The Wall Street Journal published a...
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03/14/25
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Happy Friday, and welcome to our weekly roundup of national education news. Our colleague Ron Matus recently joined Michael Horn...
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03/07/25
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Happy Friday, and welcome to our weekly roundup of national education news. Robert Pondiscio of the American Enterprise Institute marks...
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02/28/25
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The U.S. Supreme Court has set an April hearing for a landmark case that could pave the way for religious...
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02/21/25
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Christopher Jencks, the scholar of economic inequality and intellectual pioneer of school choice, passed away last week at 88. He...
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02/14/25
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Sunday afternoon, while most Americans settled in for the Super Bowl, Open AI’s Sam Altman published a blog post that...
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02/07/25
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As public education shifts into a new era, contradictions are bound to emerge. A new survey released this week reveals...
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