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At the ranch school, core academics come with cows and confidence - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (1272+ words) LAUREL HILL, Fla. " Bryan and Laine Baker didn't set out to start a school. They were focused on their kids and their up-and-coming cattle operation. But then Laine met a woman at a business conference in 2023 who was creating a…...
Cultivating "skilled hands and wise hearts" - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ week, 4+ day ago (371+ words) This" la carte learning provider uses woodwork to instill deeper lessons Alex's wife, Lindsey, tappedtheirhomeschool connections foraninitialcohort of 21 students. Thatturned out to be more than enough for Alex, then a gainfully employed mechanical engineer, to realize he wanted to do…...
School choice and innovation in small-town U. S. A. - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1213+ words) GLEN ST. MARY, Fla. " Baker County is in a piney corner of North Florida that hugs the Georgia line near the Okefenokee Swamp. It's part of metro Jacksonville, but on the country side, not the coastal side, still more small…...
Tampa Bay education choice supporters to teachers union: Dropping lawsuit will save children, families, and communities - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
2+ week, 4+ day ago (180+ words) For me, this lawsuit is not political. It is personal. If it succeeds, the impact will hit my family hard, as well asmanyothers," the Bradenton area mom said. We are living proof that education choice is working in Florida. I…...
Step Up For Students thought leader shares Florida education choice success story with students at the University of Austin - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
3+ week, 5+ day ago (166+ words) Students at the University of Austin are getting an overview of the nation's rapidly expanding education choice movement, including its storied history in Florida. The topic of Matus's lecture was "Freedom, Pluralism and School Choice: Competing Rationales and Contemporary Practice…...
COMMENTARY: Expect strong response to protect education choice for Florida families - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (25+ words) You may have read or seen a story this week about the Florida Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, filing a lawsuit challenging the...
Education choice supporters protest union-backed lawsuit that would strip them of access to learning options - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
4+ week, 2+ day ago (416+ words) Parents choose where we send our children to'daycare,'we choose where to go to college. Why can't we do the same with K-12 schools?" Rashad Walker,'who traveled'to the event with his family, shared how he is thriving at the school…...
More Florida districts take the lead in developing learning options for part-time public school students - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ mon, 4+ day ago (255+ words) For a glimpse into the future of public education, visit Florida. Nearly three years after landmark legislation gave Sunshine State families the flexibility to choose from an expanding number of learning options, 75% of its 67 school districts now offer a la…...
Rashad Walker has a crafty way to cure boredom - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (1028+ words) Rashad Walker's big idea was born last September in room 429 of the children's ward of Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola hospital. Rashad, confined to a bed for three weeks after surgery to repair his knock knees, was bored. "Insanely bored," said…...
New Florida law offers private schools more relief from zoning rules - Next Steps: Step Up For Students
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (608+ words) A new state law has replaced Florida's patchwork of local zoning rules that had prevented some small private schools from opening, paving the way for robust school choice options to expand. The new law takes effect on July 1. It benefits…...