Editor’s note: Andrew Campanella is president of National School Choice Week. This concludes our #schoolchoiceWISH series. As school choice supporters, we hope children who benefit from educational opportunity will “dream big.” We tell students to aim for their loftiest goals and to never give up. My #schoolchoiceWISH is that school[Read More…]
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School choice parents to rally at Florida Capitol
“Where are the parents who support school choice?” “Where are the parents who support parental empowerment?” “Where are the parents whose children benefit from education reform?” These are typical questions from traditional parenting groups, groups that sometimes say they represent Florida parents in all educational matters. They have to ask[Read More…]
Let’s talk about broader school choice
Editor’s note: Wendy Howard is executive director of the Florida Alliance for Choices in Education, which includes a broad range of school choice organizations. The views expressed here are her own and not that of FACE. Four years after my daughter Jessica Howard began a petition drive to make it[Read More…]
Choice groups, unite! Florida alliance brings school choice sectors together
In 2010, Doug Tuthill took a look around and realized he was living in a new era. “Florida had this rapidly expanding portfolio of school choice options,” said Tuthill, the president of Step Up For Students, which administers the state’s tax credit scholarship program. “Yet there was little dialogue among[Read More…]