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Florida schools roundup: School grades, Common Core, charter schools & more
School grades: Florida has a record-high 107 F-rated schools this year. Miami Herald. Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco and Hernando all earned overall “C” grades. Tampa Bay Times. Broward Superintendent...
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Florida private school “voucher” parents join PTA
When Step Up parents talked about their personal circumstances, the scholarship program stopped being this abstract idea and started becoming something much more real. Earlier this month, the Florida...
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Florida schools roundup: Jeb Bush, Tony Bennett, PARCC & more
Jeb Bush on Tony Bennett: “Tony will be sorely missed in Florida at a time when we need his leadership the most,” writes former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Miami Herald. School grades: The fall of Tony...
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Florida schools roundup: Common Core, debit cards, Florida Virtual & more
Common Core: Protesters gather at a Broward County School Board meeting to show they don’t support the new Common Core education standards. Miami Herald. State Rep. Janet Adkins, R-Fernandina Beach,...
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Urban Leagues explore school choice
Florida’s Urban Leagues and education advocates are teaming up for a series of town halls later this month that will include discussions on the growing number of learning options available to...
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Florida charter school effort starting to roll
After a quiet start, a Race-To-The-Top-fueled effort to draw proven charter schools to Florida’s neediest communities is picking up steam. The $30 million Florida Charter School Growth Fund, begun in...
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Single-gender charter schools on rise in Florida
Twenty-three second-grade boys sit cross-legged on the lunchroom floor in diagonal rows known at this Bradenton, Fla., charter school as the “rays’’ formation. Principal Neil Phillips talks with...
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Rocketship eyes Florida for charter school expansion
It’s early in the process, so early that Kristoffer Haines of Rocketship Education hesitates to share too much about the charter school network’s potential to come to the Sunshine State. Yes,...
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The vanguard for a new generation of Catholic schools
ACE teachers-in-training Ben Horton and Ashley Logsdon talk about being a part of the University of Notre Dame’s effort to revive Catholic schools. Both students are earning a master’s degree in...
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A charter school for the struggling
Pepin Academies is a charter school in the Tampa Bay area in Florida that specializes in educating students with learning disabilities, such as speech delays or autism. “We purposely take the...
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Reform-minded Catholic schools push to close reading gaps
It’s the benchmark for long-term academic success – having every student reading at grade level or higher by the end of third grade. And it’s the lofty mission of a new reading program for Catholic...
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redefinED roundup: Charter fraud in CA, vouchers under fire in LA, charters...
Alabama: Former Gov. Bob Riley becomes chairman of the Alabama Opportunity Scholarship Fund (Southeast Sun, Education Week). Step Up for Students President Doug Tuthill sets the record straight...
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Florida schools roundup: Charters, gender-specific, Charlie Crist & more
Charter schools: The Franklin Academy charter school is opening a second campus next fall in Palm Beach Gardens. Palm Beach Post. The Leon County School district could soon be running a charter school...
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Military families: Charter school would be closer, better, more responsive
For retired Air Force Sgt. Greg Parmer, having a K-8 charter school at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., would give military families more and better options for middle school. For Amanda Madden,...
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Rolling across Florida to raise awareness about Catholic schools
Bishop Robert Lynch of the Diocese of St. Petersburg helps celebrate the growth of Sacred Heart Catholic School in Florida, and other Catholic schools across the state during the University of Notre...
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Private school in Haiti gets help from U.S. charter school company
Charter Schools USA is one of the nation’s largest for-profit charter school management companies, with 58 schools in seven states. But the Florida-based organization also has a charitable arm that’s...
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Eric Garner and the soul of education reform: Derrell Bradford, podcastED
Photo via Graeme Stoker. The tragedies that drew thousands of people into the streets in cities around the country this past weekend have also prompted soul-searching in the education reform movement....
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Fighting for school choice ‘on every frontier’: Q & A with Ken Campbell
Late last month, the Black Alliance for Educational Options announced Ken Campbell will step down after five years as president of the organization, where he has served in various leadership roles...
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Miss Ana and her mighty home school micro cluster
Ana Garcia’s home education cluster includes a total of seven students, including five with autism who use the Gardiner Scholarship, an education savings account in Florida for students with special...
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Reflections of a parent organizer
Regardless of issue or geographic location, parents often are the best advocates for their children’s educational options. Florida frequently is viewed as a model for the school choice movement,...
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