Scholarship Implementation
Learn about the practical implementation of education scholarships and their real-world effects on students, families, and communities.
Lessons from SNAP wargames
On Dec. 16, 2017, the U.S. House Committee on Agriculture held a committee hearing on “Pros and Cons of Restricting SNAP Purchases.” SNAP is a federally financed food assistance program that faces many of the same dilemmas policymakers face over education savings accounts. Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, director of The Hamilton... READ MOREUpdate: More than 425,000 students apply for Florida education choice scholarships
Updated March. 31, 2025 After a record-setting opening weekend in which more than 120,000 students applied for Florida K-12 scholarships, demand remains high. Step Up For Students, the nonprofit organization...
READ MOREFlorida charter schools grow – and challenge their own status quo
At the annual Florida School Choice Conference and School Choice Summit, attendees got their customary sendoff from Jim Horne, a former state senator, state education commissioner and pioneer of the...
READ MOREESAs and transactional friction in public education’s third era
In its third era, public education aspires to expand equal opportunity by helping families and educators provide every student with an effective and efficient customized education through an effective and...
READ MOREFive faces of 500,000: These Florida families took control of their children’s educational destiny
As the movement for education options gains momentum across the country, there remains a clear national leader: Florida. This school year, the Sunshine State’s education savings account programs are larger...
READ MOREESA opponents endorse Anarcho-Capitalism in surprise move
When I was in graduate school, one of my fellow students described the movie Sudden Death to me. Something about terrorists, the vice president, a professional hockey game and Jean-Claude...
READ MORE‘If you don’t innovate, you will stagnate’: Florida charter schools urged to evolve
Education is no longer about students sitting in rows of desks from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. And school choice, the term supporters used for years to describe the movement...
READ MOREApocalypse NOT, Permissionless Education NOW
Francis Ford Coppola shot a scene for Apocalypse Now set in a plantation owned by die-hard French imperialists holding out in Vietnam. Set in 1968 during the height of the...
READ MOREWhat American military aviation strategy might teach the ESA movement
Recently I watched a presentation about the United States military. We face a very real if under-discussed possibility of an attack by China on American forces as a part...
READ MOREPublic education is transitioning from its second to third paradigm
Public education is in the early stages of transitioning from its second to third paradigm. In his 1962 book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn described an organization’s paradigm...
READ MOREJewish schools in Florida are growing so fast, they’re running out of room; here’s one example
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Thirteen years ago, Katy Horowitz and her family moved from London to Miami, where she promptly secured a job at a charter school. But when the...
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