Education amendments: Two Florida school officials are offering amendments to the state constitution that would provide more public financial support for schools other than traditional public schools. Marva Johnson, a member of the Florida Board of Education and Florida Constitution Revision Commission, is urging changes that would allow public money to[Read More…]
Tag: Mike Thomas
A blog from Jeb Bush’s ed foundation
Jeb Bush’s Foundation for Excellence in Education now has a blog. The EdFly Blog. launched last week, is written by Mike Thomas, a former Orlando Sentinel columnist. For years, Thomas was one of the few journalists in Florida to report the positive impact of the big ed changes here. Here’s an excerpt from[Read More…]
One industry’s lesson on choice for another
Does the challenged newspaper industry hold lessons for public schools? At least one newspaper columnist believes so. Orlando Sentinel scribe Mike Thomas writes that newspapers responded to the competitive threat of the Internet too late. School districts, he writes, are repeating similar errors: There was this fledgling enterprise called the Internet, but we[Read More…]