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...
by Lane Wright | Dec 21, 2018
Did you hear? Florida has just hired a fox to guard the public school henhouse and the newspapers are lamenting the impending death of “public education” in the Sunshine state. If you’re confused, or if you’re simply not so melodramatic, all they’re saying is that the...
by Lane Wright | Aug 21, 2018
Amendment 8 may not be on the ballot come November, but we can’t ignore the issue it was trying to address. Charter schools have a legitimate place in our state. They’re written into our laws because they give families a public-school option (and hope) when their...
by Lane Wright | Aug 20, 2018
This post was updated at 12:18 PM This morning, Judge John Cooper struck Amendment 8 from the ballot. That means, unless an appeal wins favor with a higher judge, it won’t be appearing on the ballot this November. Here’s what you should know. Amendment 8 was a...
by Lane Wright | May 8, 2018
If you live in Florida, and especially if you have children here, there’s good news for you (well, for us): Florida schools are getting better. Maybe you’ve noticed recent news lamenting the fact that students in this country, on average, have made virtually no...
