About The Author

Travis Pillow

Travis Pillow is senior director of thought leadership and growth at Step Up For Students. He lives in Sanford, Florida, with his wife and two children. A former Tallahassee statehouse reporter, he most recently worked at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a research organization at Arizona State University, where he studied community-led learning innovation and school systems' responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. He can be reached at tpillow (at) sufs.org.
01/31/25
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A generation ago, Florida’s school districts could safely assume that most students would board a yellow bus (or perhaps walk...
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01/30/25
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This week’s roundup of national education news is focused on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Wednesday’s release of the...
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01/23/25
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This week’s biggest story on forces shaping public education didn’t show up in the education section. The New York Times...
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01/16/25
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Education writer Lauren Camera revives an overlooked report from last year showing the most effective thing educators can do to...
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01/13/25
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This school year, Florida is empowering half a million students to direct funding to education options of their family’s choice. ...
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01/09/25
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Today we are debuting an interruption of our normal roundup of Florida education news with a new weekly scan of...
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11/04/24
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Florida's public schools score among the best in the nation in nine-year-olds' reading achievement. For low-income students, their results are...
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10/08/24
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This school year, 2024-2025, for the first time, Brevard County students using Florida’s education choice scholarship programs will have a...
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07/17/24
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Nearly half a million Florida students have been awarded scholarships that will allow them to direct public education funding to...
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06/24/24
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For the first time last week, I flew home from an education conference with a feeling that recalled Hunter S....
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