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In just two months, more than 500,000 students have applied for a scholarship for the 2026–27 school year! Learn more here: tinyurl.com/5263upz5
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Step Up is proud to help support new opportunities for families statewide. Learn more here: lnkd.in/egG66nKH
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Step Up is proud to support the families of veterans today and every day. hubs.la/Q03SznjH0
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Did you know one of the biggest reasons why families may have not used scholarship funds is that there was not enough availability at the schools they wanted? Read the full report here: tinyurl.com/3jnsepzz
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More on Charter Schools USA and Step Up For Students expanding options for Florida students. floridapolitics.com/archives…
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📈 Catholic school enrollment is up in Florida again!
That’s four straight years of growth.
⚡Powered by the nation’s largest education choice scholarship program!
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“The unprecedented volume of applications on our opening weekend highlights the value Florida families place on the opportunity to choose the best possible education for their children,” Step Up For Students CEO Gretchen Schoenhaar said. Read more here: hubs.la/Q0355Tp50
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Governor DeSantis Highlights School Choice Milestones in Jacksonville xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1gqGvNyVN…
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Florida leads the nation in education freedom. Since we enacted universal school choice in 2023, nearly 1.4 million students across the state are now benefiting from charter schools, private school scholarships, homeschooling, and personalized learning opportunities.
When parents are empowered to make the best choices for their children, schools compete for students—and that competition raises the bar for traditional public schools to improve as well. Florida ranks #1 for education, and our statewide graduation rate reached a record high last year.
Other states are already looking to Florida as a model for their school choice reforms. If the federal government works to establish universal school choice nationwide, every child in America can benefit from the same education freedom that has delivered great results in Florida.
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Educational choice advocates/ESA supporters need to be more aware of how words are being used against them. This is getting to be a little silly. I wrote about this problem in @NextSteps_Edu a while back.
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It doesn’t have to be ESA versus public school. In fact, it can be ESA AND public school.
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The way of the future fordhaminstitute.org/nationa…
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“Today’s American microschooling movement is very different than the schools of choice that precede it…. Regulatory frameworks need to continue to adapt to these exciting new opportunities,” @donsoifer tells @lisa_buie.
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If there is no benefit in rural Texas then there is no threat to financial health.
Problem is #schoolchoice works in rural areas and they know this #txlege #tied #edFL
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Five years in & three special sessions this year alone, rural republicans still voting against vouchers bc they “pose a serious threat to the long-term financial health” of their schools “w/o providing a meaningful benefit to [their] constituents.” 1/ texastribune.org/2023/11/17/…
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#Schoolchoice isn’t just charters & vouchers & ESAs.
273,475 students in Florida used open enrollment in 2019 to attend other public schools, acc. to this great new report from @JudeSchwalbach @reason.
FL is a leader here, but Reason offers 3 good suggestions for improvement.
Six states—AZ, FL, ID, KS, OK and UT—have implemented four of five best practices for open enrollment, which allows kids to choose any public school with open seats. While 19 states, including TX, MI, NY and VA, have not implemented any best practices.
reason.org/open-enrollment/p…
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Love this @reimaginEDblog piece!
As education freedom expands and more families look to meet their children's unique needs, we should expect to see more such stories of unbundled learning.
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Florida finally has a statewide charter school commission reimaginedonline.org/2023/10…
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This new school choice scholarship data gives the Florida legislature 350,000 reasons to be very proud — and at least 96,000 reasons to keep making improvements!
Three words: Accelerate PEP Expansion
Great piece by @travispillow in @reimaginEDblog: reimaginedonline.org/2023/10…
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The school these parents wanted didn’t exist, so with school choice, they created it - @reimaginEDblog reimaginedonline.org/2023/10…