@JasonBedrick Your chart rocks!17 hours agoReplyRetweet
RT @JasonBedrick: #Schoolchoice tax credits grow more popular once implemented. Legislators, be not afraid! http://t.co/I2aOwqnOAm17 hours agoReplyRetweet
RT @PEFNC: Critical Vote on Tuesday!:Tap here http://t.co/8oo1ZuVFyq to contact your legislators & show your support for Opportunity Schola…17 hours agoReplyRetweet
@LisaLeslie Thanks for the RT! And thanks for speaking at #AFCPolicySummit. We're honored to be on the same #schoolchoice team with you.18 hours agoReplyRetweet
RT @PEFNC: Opportunity Scholarships are being debated now by NC legislature. ACT NOW!: Text SOS to 52886 and ask your legislator to support…2 days agoReplyRetweet
RT @HispanicCREO: Congratulations to the 2013 National Charter Schools Hall of Fame Inductees http://t.co/gZLwqm0fSA2 days agoReplyRetweet
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Florida roundup: Charter school funding, tax credit scholarships, Amendment 8 …

Florida Board of Education openings. Two coming up, notes Gradebook.

When Florida and Mississippi schools were peas in a pod. Jackson Clarion-Ledger.

Welner

Tax credit scholarships in Chronicle of Philanthropy. (subscription required) The story leads with Step Up For Students and quotes “neovoucher” expert Kevin Welner: “He also argues that most states don’t really know if they are saving money, since few have closely tracked how many students receiving scholarships would have gone to private schools without them.” Welner has raised this argument before, and it’s not the case in Florida, as redefinED has noted.

Charter school facilities funding. A state task force deadlocks on recommendations, reports the St. Augustine Record.

Charter school pay raises. Charter schools in Lake Wales look for ways to compensate their teachers, reports the News Chief.

F charter schools. Two in Escambia offer updates to the school board, reports the Pensacola News Journal.

Amendment 8 in the Washington Post. The amendment and its impact on vouchers is referenced, incorrectly, in a story on quality control issues with the D.C. voucher program. Here again is the real story.

About Ron Matus

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Ron Matus is editor of redefinED and assistant director for policy & public affairs at Step Up for Students. He joined Step Up in February 2012 after 20 years in journalism, including eight years as an education reporter with the Tampa Bay Times (formerly the St. Petersburg Times). Ron can be reached at rmatus@stepupforstudents.org or (813) 402-0207. Follow him on Twitter @redefinEDonline and on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/redefinedonline.

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