NextSteps: Step Up For Students

An expanding microschool that offers personalized, mastery-based learning to students in a low-income area of Sarasota County won a $500,000 grant Tuesday to expand its model. Star Lab, which began two years ago in an unused building at a public housing c

Everything seemed perfect when Alison Rini prepared to open her dream school, one that would give kids an opportunity to learn at their own level and progress at their own pace. The timing: The state had recently passed legislation that established univer

Families whose children benefit from Florida's education choice scholarships and charter schools have won an early victory in the legal battle with the state's largest teachers union. In May, the Florida Education Association sued the Florida Department o

For the fifth consecutive year, a national group ranked Florida as the top state in education freedom. The Heritage Foundation, a national think tank, named the Sunshine State No. 1 overall in its annual Education Freedom Report Card, which ranks states o

Florida's education choice movement has transformed learning for millions of families, but the next generation of reforms will require expanding options, modernizing funding and continuing to trust parents, a panel of state education leaders said Tuesday.

Two years after the first Florida school district made the groundbreaking decision to offer a la carte learning to education choice scholarship students, some Arizona school districts are following its lead. The Apache Junction Unified School District, lo

Join The James Madison Institute, Step Up For Students, and Foundation for Florida's Future for a special celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship. For a quarter century, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship has helped

As families head back to school this month, this episode centers on how school choice can change daily life for children who need the right fit, especially kids with unique abilities and adoption-related trauma. A teacher and "multiple choice" mom, Aaliya

ORLANDO, Fla. - The name of a panel discussion at the State Policy Network's 34th annual meeting was designed to get attention. But the most intriguing thing on the slide deck was the asterisk beside the huge letters that promised to reveal "Where the Wil

You may not know the name Rhode Malivert. But you're familiar with her work if you ever tasted the caramel and sweet cream flavors in Häagen-Dazs dulce de leche ice cream. "I was one of the engineers that worked on that," said Malivert, who graduated with