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A Pennsylvania lawmaker has introduced legislation that would establish a state-funded education savings account that families could use to cover the cost of private school tuition or homeschooling. Rep. Andrew Lewis’ Excellent Education for All Act would create Keystone Hope Scholarships, increase funding for the state’s tax credit program for businesses[Read More…]
If you’re persuaded by strong evidence that a content-rich curriculum is the best way to bolster reading comprehension and propel students to higher levels of academic success, then there is encouraging news coming out of the private school sector in Florida. As the new school year begins, at least 30[Read More…]
It’s one thing for the redefinED team to be excited about our upcoming transition to reimaginED, a more robust version of the policy and public affairs blog sponsored for the past decade by Step Up For Students. Turns out our education choice partners in the national arena are excited, too.[Read More…]
More military families will be able to qualify for state K-12 education choice scholarships due to a rule change approved today by the Florida Board of Education. The rule was made in response to the passage of HB 7045, which expanded scholarship eligibility to dependents of active duty military families.[Read More…]
Education reform activists in California have filed a school choice initiative with the state’s attorney general’s office that they expect to put before voters for approval. The Educational Freedom Act would require the state to establish an education savings account for every school-age child if his or her parent or[Read More…]
Before Valeria Gurr arrived in the United States to attend graduate school, the native Chilean had no idea a school choice movement existed. What she did know was that she hated school as a child growing up in a tiny town in southern part of the country. The daughter of a[Read More…]
As a new academic year begins, school leaders nationwide continue to grapple with crucial decisions about how best to educate children amid continued risks posed by a worldwide pandemic. In a recent article for The 74, Chris Meyer, the chief executive officer of New Schools for Baton Rouge, describes the[Read More…]
A new study from a personal finance website based in Washington, D.C., has ranked Florida fifth in the nation in terms of equitability of district education funding based on two metrics: average household income and expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools per pupil. In a review of 12,927 school[Read More…]
