Tag: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Florida schools roundup: Open enrollment, gifted clusters and more
Open enrollment: Thousands of south Florida students are applying for spots in schools outside their attendance zones under the state’s new open enrollment law, and some school officials say it could be the start of a trend of children returning to public schools. In Broward County, 11,602 students applied for transfers[Read More…]
Florida schools roundup: Trump’s budget, recess, charter district and more
Trump’s school choice push: President Donald Trump’s first budget calls for $1.4 billion to be set aside to expand school choice, even as it cuts the overall Department of Education budget by $9 billion, or 13 percent. The federal Charter Schools Program would be boosted by 50 percent, and Trump also[Read More…]
Another left-leaning case for the new definition of public education
Milton Friedman and his free-market ideas may have been anathema to the political left, but he was right about one thing: School choice. Daniel Grego, the director of Milwaukee’s TransCenter for Youth and an acolyte of the likes of Ivan Illich and Wendell Berry, made that case in the journal[Read More…]