Tag: parents

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Florida schools roundup: Common Core, school threats, SAC funds cut and more

Common Core: National support for the Common Core State Standards has fallen to the lowest level in five years, according to a report in Education Next, a journal published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance. Only about 42 percent of those polled support the standards, down from 90 percent... READ MORE
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Guess who else likes school choice? School district employees!
Teachers unions don't like school choice. But school district employees...
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I’m conservative, I’m for school choice and I back Common Core
Editor’s note: Wendy Howard is executive director of Florida Alliance...
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Parental choice would honor the Dream
Editor’s note: This is the third post in our series...
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MLK and God’s schools
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of...
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Low-income students need more resources to close achievement gaps
The latest Florida Department of Education report on the tax...
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Parents should never have the authority to purposely raise an illiterate child
I agree with Utah state Sen. Aaron Osmond’s assertion that...
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What if school choice included choosing no school at all?
Editor’s note: Utah state Sen. Aaron Osmond raised eyebrows and...
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Common Core can help school choice
For practical reasons, many Florida private schools are rolling up...
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Is school choice a means or an end?
Up to a certain point schooling is an example of...
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Minister: Democrats putting special interests above needs of black children
An influential black minister endorsed Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris...
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