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Charter Schools USA and Step Up For Students join forces to expand options for Florida students

Two of the leading organizations in Florida’s united education choice movement are joining forces to expand access to learning opportunities...

Florida’s education evolution now has more than 50% of students in school choice options

For the first time in Florida’s history, more than half of all K-12 students are enrolled in an educational option...

Patrick R. Gibbons

A Montessori microschool for deaf students – and a sign of things to come

CLEARWATER, Fla. – More than 20 years ago, Julie Rutenberg and Colette Derks harnessed some of the first private school...

For this former public school educator, starting a microschool was a dream come true

SARASOTA, Fla. – Alison Rini thought her destiny was to be the principal at a traditional public school. She...

Texas choice triumph calls for celebration and a shift for the movement

Texas school choice opponents are strong. I recall going to look up the number of lobbyists on retainer by groups...

Where kids still play in the woods

FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. – Millions of students in American public schools are lucky if they get 30 minutes of recess...

The nature school that’s growing environmental leaders

SARASOTA, Fla. – When Briana Santoro and her family moved to Florida in 2021, she set out to find the...

By the numbers: Florida’s history-making growth of education options

This school year, Florida is empowering half a million students to direct funding to education options of their family’s choice. ...

This educator skipped the traditional teacher route and headed straight into entrepreneurship

DAVENPORT, Fla. – Valeria Oquendo didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur. “Ms. V,” as her students call her, had...

A microschool in farm country

McALPIN, Fla. – Maybe it stands to reason that in a remote community surrounded by hay fields and pine plantation,...

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