Editor’s note: This profile is the first in a series featuring former Florida Tax Credit Scholarship recipients who are included in the 2020 cohort of the American Federation for Children’s …
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Academy Prep Center started the 2020-21 academic year with a unique perspective. Understanding that education is hardly a one-size-fits-all proposition, even in the best of times, school officials allowed the …
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Texas legislators have passed a bill that will extend a program that provides $1,500 grants for purchase of services for additional educational support to families of children with special needs. …
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For centuries, the vampire has haunted folklore across cultures. Because these bloodsuckers “become what we fear most at any given time,” it’s not surprising that opponents of education choice see …
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Nearly 95% of seniors participating in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program graduated from high school during the 2019-20 school year, the second highest graduation rate since the nonprofit that …
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On Wednesday, Greg R. Lawson, a research fellow at The Buckeye Institute, an independent research and educational institution whose mission is to advance free-market public policy in the states, testified …
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Editor’s note: Materials related to the study are posted to a landing page accessible at https://ceresinstitute.org/choices-and-challenges/. Nearly all Florida parents participating in two state scholarship programs for children with special …
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Editor’s note: This commentary from redefinED executive editor Matthew Ladner appeared Wednesday on The 74. In 2001, the Manhattan Institute ranked states by their combination of public charter, private and …
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Our friends Jason Bedrick and Corey DeAngelis are in the business of keeping us apprised of school choice advances from states across the country, and business is booming. After DeAngelis’ …
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Editor’s note: This post from Malka Kownat-Rhodes, a longtime professional in the special education field and a school funding specialist with Teach Florida, appeared Thursday on Florida Politics. One of …
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For centuries, the vampire has haunted folklore across cultures. Because these bloodsuckers “become what we fear most at any given time,” it’s not surprising that opponents of education choice see …
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On this episode, redefinED senior writer Lisa Buie speaks with La Toya Bell, an independent living specialist for the Children’s Home Society of Florida and mom to Camrin, who attends …
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Nearly 95% of seniors participating in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program graduated from high school during the 2019-20 school year, the second highest graduation rate since the nonprofit that …
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Editor’s note: This profile is the first in a series featuring former Florida Tax Credit Scholarship recipients who are included in the 2020 cohort of the American Federation for Children’s …
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Texas legislators have passed a bill that will extend a program that provides $1,500 grants for purchase of services for additional educational support to families of children with special needs. …
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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is expected to sign a bill that would allow a private founding group, operating independently from the local school board, to apply to the State Board …
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Academy Prep Center started the 2020-21 academic year with a unique perspective. Understanding that education is hardly a one-size-fits-all proposition, even in the best of times, school officials allowed the …
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Just blocks from where waves roll in from the Atlantic, a well-traveled Toyota pickup stops every Friday around 9. Uli Frallicciardi lowers his tailgate and loads 15 green surfboards into …
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It began as a day care center for Rosie the Riveter. As World War II began and the men went off to fight, Jack and Jill Nursery opened in 1942 …
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Roman Scott’s bedroom has two walls painted orange and two painted blue. On the floor is a rug with the design of a two-lane road wending its way through a …
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A word spoken in good season, how good it is! — Proverbs, the Old Testament The various forms of government subsidy for parental choice of a child’s school have been …
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“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” — Macbeth, Shakespeare Our national fuddle over the role of government (public?) schools during the pandemic is yet another throwback to the days of …
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” G.B. Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists Shaw’s wit suggests the primary harvest of our “public” school systems for children of the …
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“I am equal and whole.” A.C. Swinburne, Hertha “There is but one law for all … the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice … equity …” Edmund …
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There is no evidence that students who use Florida school choice scholarships return to public schools worse off academically. But that doesn’t stop critics of education choice from repeating variations …
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Editor’s note: Our critics often assert that giving lower-income families access to more learning options hurts district schools. Below we have assembled evidence showing that these claims are false. Empowering …
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Editor’s note: The goal of fact-checkED is to bring clinical precision to complex issues that are easily misunderstood, aiming to counteract incorrect information before it continues to circulate. Sally Butzin …
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With the presidential primary election in delegate-rich Florida just two months away, Democratic candidates are beginning to knock on the door. In a Monday column in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, …
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A word spoken in good season, how good it is! — Proverbs, the Old Testament The various forms of government subsidy for parental choice of …
