Charter schools. The Collier school board narrowly votes not to renew a struggling charter school’s contract. Naples Daily News. Leadership. StateImpact talks to Palm Beach’s new chief. Lee schools begin a search for a new superintedent. Fort Myers News-Press. Campaigns. Hillsborough’s new slate of school board candidates includes a married[Read More…]
Tag: CAPE
Florida schools roundup: Lawsuits, testing, career education and more
Lawsuits. A judge decides parents of children on Florida tax credit scholarships can have the status of a full-blown party to a lawsuit challenging the program’s constitutionality. redefinED. News Service of Florida. Palm Beach Post. Times/Herald. The program is administered by organizations like Step Up For Students, which co-hosts this blog. Career[Read More…]
Florida roundup: Charter schools, CAPE, campaigns, Common Core and more
Charter schools. Hillsborough’s superintendent tells parents the district won’t close charter schools it is scrutinizing, but may take over their operations. Gradebook. An Orlando TV station airs claims, but little evidence, that charter schools are promoting “resegregation.” WFTV. CAPE. The Hernando school district prepares to launch an aerospace career academy.[Read More…]
Florida roundup: CAPE, Common Core, magnet schools and more
Tax credit scholarships. Students with higher incomes can now qualify for partial scholarships through Florida’s program, but how does that compare nationally? EdWeek. More on the Legislation from the South Florida Times. GTN News. Common Core. Parents sound off on the standards in Hillsborough. Tampa Tribune. Facilities. Two Broward charter schools[Read More…]
Joe McTighe: Wishing for two front teeth & a level playing field
Editor’s note: Joe McTighe is executive director of the Council for American Private Education. This is the third post in our #schoolchoiceWISH series. As children, my sister Moo and I were regularly prompted at holiday gatherings to sing “All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth,” a crowd-pleasing[Read More…]
What’s your #schoolchoiceWISH? (the blog version)
This week, we posed that question to many of you on Twitter and got an amazing response: more than 1,000 tweets! In the meantime, we also posed it to some stalwarts in the school choice movement, and asked them to write a short blog post in response. Next week, we’ll[Read More…]
Study: Students in faith-based schools have academic edge over public school peers
For many school choice supporters, enrollment growth across many sectors is reason to cheer. But new research may give policymakers pause about whether they’re pursuing the options that result in the best academic outcomes. William Jeynes, a professor at California State University, Long Beach, and a senior fellow at the[Read More…]