About The Author

Patrick R. Gibbons

Patrick Gibbons is public affairs manager at Step Up for Students and a research fellow for the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. A former teacher, he lived in Las Vegas, Nev., for five years, where he worked as an education writer and researcher. He can be reached at (813) 498.1991 or emailed at pgibbons@stepupforstudents.org. Follow Patrick on Twitter: at @PatrickRGibbons and @redefinEDonline.
12/13/13
Patrick R. Gibbons
North Carolina Justice Center The North Carolina Justice Center, which bills itself as a civil rights advocacy organization for low-income...
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12/09/13
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Rob Staley founded his private school a decade ago, with eight students he expelled himself from public school. The former...
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12/05/13
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Sen. Jeff Clemens – D-Lake Worth, Fla. Sen. Clemens filed SB 452 last week, a bill that would prohibit authorization...
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11/26/13
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Julie Underwood - University of Wisconsin The ed school dean at the University of Wisconsin, Julie Underwood, argued against school...
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11/21/13
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Last Friday the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report highlighting flaws and failures in the oversight of Washington D.C.’s...
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11/14/13
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Ed Hughes – Madison (Wis.) School Board president There is no end to the strange arguments made to oppose school...
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11/13/13
Patrick R. Gibbons
When it comes to reasons why parents move from public to private schools, standardized test scores are nowhere near the...
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11/08/13
Patrick R. Gibbons
Florida made small gains over the last NAEP cycle, but how does its growth compare over the long haul? Pretty...
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11/07/13
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Florida’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) results in reading and math place the Sunshine State squarely in the middle...
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10/29/13
Patrick R. Gibbons
Ted Olson: Ted Olson recently attended the Excellence in Education conference to speak about Vergara v. California, a lawsuit to...
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