No top ten list this year, either for the blog or the ICYMI stuff, because A) there are too many posts to sort through and B) the analytics that decide which posts have been seen the most are wildly u...

What Monroe County’s numbers reveal about Florida’s broken school funding priorities

Florida’s new education chief got booed after trashing public schools while ignoring failures and even school closings in the state’s voucher-school system.

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A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

Have You Heard heads to Florida, where education policy is increasingly being determined by wealthy donors. We meet a billionaire who has been putting big bucks behind a very particular vision for the

Historians question whether proposed standards emphasize ideology over critical thinking.

Florida’s school funding shortfall wasn’t a glitch — it was a system failure.Until the state releases the missing February data, we can’t fix what went wrong.Transparency first.Release the Fourth Calc...

Opinion: Florida’s book bans aren’t about parental rights—they’re about controlling ideas. A local parent explains why this matters to all of us.

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

As conservative lawmakers promise to expand school choice next year, a handful of Mississippi cities are taking a public stand against the policy.

I haven’t written much about AI and education, for several reasons. First, there are already many people writing compellingly and with considerable expertise about the uses and misuses of AI in the…

The slightly-cranky voice navigating the world of educational "reform" while trying to still pursue the mission of providing quality education.

Students shouldn’t be trapped In a Marketplace full of overpriced choices. Families and taxpayers deserve better.

[Header Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash] When I had my OpEd on the manufactured reading crisis and NAEP misinformation published in The Washington Post, I anticipated that SOR advocates would conti…

Florida families want safe, strong schools. Florida taxpayers want accountability and value. Schools of Hope deliver neither.

Citing state policy on tenure, elimination of diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, and the cost of living, Florida faculty laid out their frustrations in a recent survey. In a Faculty in the ...

Scott Maxwell: It makes sense that Florida no longer allows food-stamp recipients to use their vouchers on junk food. The state should demand similar accountability for school vouchers to ensure pu…

Democrats must come up with a defense of public schools that goes beyond bloodless workforce preparation

Yet another reason Florida’s school districts should refuse to participate in Step Up’s education marketplace and protect public schools for every child.

It's been a tough summer for public school supporters

Two legal scholars argue that public education helps the US maintain the nation’s fundamental values of equality and fairness – and recent attacks put them at risk.

How Step Up for Students is recruiting school boards into the unbundling of public schools

The move is an acceleration of President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring English the country’s “official language.”

Another front in Tallahassee’s us versus them culture wars.

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

A roundup of Florida education news from around the state

The Commissioner “Stasi” calls school grades proof of progress. Jeb’s Foundation calls them inflated. So which is it—and why don’t private schools get graded at all?

Florida lawmakers scrapped school start time reforms rather than address underfunded student transportation—will they now divert those same dollars to private school vouchers?

The Florida Board of Education is inviting speakers from an organization committed to ending public education as we know it... Bless their hearts...

“Yes, K-12 needs real fixes—curriculum, support staff, teacher pay, facilities—but don’t be blinded by that truth: siphoning public dollars into an unaccountable shadow system is not reform, it’s sabo