by Lane Wright | Jan 21, 2020
A new report shows progressive cities do a worse job at closing black-white and Latino-white achievement gaps in math and reading than conservative cities. Progressive cities have bigger graduation rate gaps between the races as well. On average, progressive cities...
by Lane Wright | Oct 11, 2019
A new national report just came out and Florida, you should really give yourself a firm handshake and a pat on the back. No, not because you scored “green” across the board, suggesting you’ve held to high standards for teacher evaluations. You deserve praise for an...
by Lane Wright | Sep 10, 2019
Last week, I took my car into the dealership for a minor repair and started working from the waiting room. A young salesman came in, presumably on his break, and started chatting me up. He couldn’t have been older than 25. When I told him I worked in education policy...
by Lane Wright | Apr 8, 2019
Earlier this year, Governor Ron DeSantis issued an executive order “repealing the Common Core” standards. In practice that meant he tasked Richard Corcoran, Florida’s chief educator, with figuring out how to do that exactly. It’s not as simple as declaring Common Core...
by Lane Wright | Mar 25, 2019
Are you a parent with kids in school? If so, you should know that charter schools in Florida outperform traditional schools in just about everything you can measure. Each year, our state’s education department is required by law to look at how charter school students...
