Charter school closings: A watchdog organization reports that 38 percent of charters schools in Florida have closed since 2000, a failure rate that’s 7 percentage points higher than the national average. Of the 1,091 charter schools that have opened in Florida since 2000, 491 have closed (the state Department of[Read More…]
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Florida schools roundup: Discrimination suit, testing and more
School settlement: Miami-Dade County Public Schools settles with the U.S. Department of Justice over a claim that the system discriminated against job applicants who were immigrants. The county does not admit to any wrongdoing, though it has paid a $90,000 civil citation. Miami Herald. School testing: State Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, is[Read More…]
Mr. Gibbons’ Report Card: Social Justice and School Choice
Center for Media and Democracy PR Watch Are school vouchers really a “libertarian scheme cooked up out of an ideological hostility toward the idea of public schools” or a means to “subsidize and perpetuate segregation?” If you leave half the history out of the equation, you might reach that conclusion.[Read More…]