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At a December meeting of the House and Senate Education Committees, members heard presentations on two important reform measures: charter schools and a third-grade reading initiative. Charter School Bill  Committee members were presented with a description of a charter school bill being proposed by Senate Education Chairman Gray Tollison. The bill, as presented, contains a […]

Governor Bryant has announced his education agenda for the 2013 Legislative Session. The plan includes: A reading initiative to improve literacy – The program calls for mandatory retention of children not reading on grade level by the end of third grade and for a similar “gate” in seventh grade; Governor Bryant is requesting $15 Million

For-profit companies have discovered that there is a lot of money to be made from public education dollars, and they are taking advantage of that fact. In many states, for-profit ventures with no experience running successful schools are being granted charters. Often these schools are run on the cheap in order for the companies to pay

In 2001, Florida launched an Intensive Reading Initiative designed to improve dramatically the literacy of the state’s elementary students. With a $1-billion initial investment ($750-million in the first year), they implemented sweeping changes that touched every K-3 student and teacher: $300-million six-year Reading First grant to retrain all K-3 teachers on appropriate reading techniques. $700-million of repurposed state funding to

Since 1999, Florida has invested billions of dollars in real education reform that has catapulted the state’s student achievement into the realm of some of the highest performing countries. How Did They Do It? State-funded pre-K – $398Million/year  Intensive reading initiative – $1Billion initial investment and $130Million/year ongoing  Click here to read more Lowered class size – Lower elementary

The Foundation for Excellence in Education (FEE) is a non-profit with a lobbying arm and Super PAC, The Foundation for Florida’s Future, that advocates for charter schools, vouchers for private school tuition, and tax credit scholarships for private schools, as well as education reform initiatives. Their funders include many for-profit corporations that have a financial interest in