Brown v. Board of Education opened many doors of opportunity, but too many remain closed. School choice can open some more. Longtime school choice advocate Howard Fuller and a high-profile panel will reflect on that theme tonight at a National School Choice Week event in South Florida. To watch it[Read More…]
Tag: Julio Fuentes
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…]
Florida roundup: Rising grad rates, zoning angst, charter school shenanigans & more
Grad rates rising: Florida’s grad rate jumped nearly 4 percentage points in 2012, to 74.5 percent, the biggest one-year jump since 2003, the Orlando Sentinel reports. Full DOE report for districts and individual schools here. The DOE press release announcing the news was sent out at 5:42 p.m. Friday and[Read More…]
Hispanic voters want to hear more about education reform, school choice
Politicians eager to gain or retain the trust of Hispanic voters should focus on education and put particular emphasis on expanding school choice, suggests Julio Fuentes, president of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, in an op-ed in today’s South Florida Sun Sentinel. Here’s a snippet: We know that[Read More…]
HCREO: Florida Board of Education’s race-based achievement goals are “insulting”
Editor’s note: Julio Fuentes, president of the Hispanic Council for Reform and Educational Options, sent this email blast out earlier today. Governor Rick Scott made the right call in declaring “unacceptable” the race-based achievement goals outlined in the Florida Board of Education’s recently released five-year strategic plan. The Hispanic Council[Read More…]
Florida Catholic school leader named to Romney education team
John Giotis, a Republican activist who heads a Catholic school in St. Petersburg, Fla., is among 15 people named to a new National Educators for Romney group. The 15-member group is headed by Rod Paige, who served as U.S. Secretary of Education during President George W. Bush’s first term. Giotis, headmaster of The[Read More…]
Latino voters want to hear about education, school choice – HCREO president Julio Fuentes, podcastED
If President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney want to win over Latino voters, a new survey of five battleground states suggests they do two things: Talk up education. And emphasize school choice. More than voters in general, Latino voters are more likely to say education is a leading issue, just behind the economy and[Read More…]
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