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 | 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 | Sep 6, 2018
Now that we’ve narrowed our candidates for governor down to Ron DeSantis and Andrew Gillum, we can start digging deeper on what effect each might have on our schools. First, let’s keep in mind that Florida students are struggling: Less than half of 4th graders in...
by Lane Wright | Jul 5, 2018
The other day I imagined myself rich enough to be looking out of the floor-to-ceiling windows of a plush mansion on the beach and shaking my head, solemnly, as I whisper to myself. “Biggie and P. Diddy were right, man. Mo money. Mo Problems.” I’m pretty sure I would...
by Lane Wright | May 25, 2018
Some teachers in Florida are holding up a new study by the Brookings Institute as proof that state leaders should stop meddling with certain parts of our education system. They shouldn’t. The title of the report raises a provocative question: Did Tenure Reform In...
