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Fla. House panel backs plan for Bethune statue
Editor’s note: See our take on Bethune here. By Jim Turner News Service of Florida A statue of civil-rights activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune moved closer Tuesday to replacing a likeness of a...
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The messy history of school vouchers, teachers unions and racial segregation
On Martin Luther King Day, it is worth remembering the sacrifices people made to advance equity and desegregate public life in America, including our schools. Unfortunately, some activists have begun...
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Historic Florida school remembered
Black and white students at Industrial class. Orange Park school, 1898. Clay County Archives. In a report to northern missionaries in 1894, an Orange Park Pastor, Rev. T.S. Perry, described a beacon of...
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Peace, love & accountability
War on Poverty liberals who supported private school vouchers saw school choice as a means to create more accountability for a public education system that they saw as unresponsive to the needs of...
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Remember this school choice Democrat
This is the latest post in our series on the center-left roots of school choice. U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan was a popular Democrat who favored school choice. In 1978, he started working with Berkeley...
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School choice … for teachers
This is the latest post in our ongoing series on the center-left roots of school choice. Four years ago, Angela Kennedy, a teacher in Orlando, Fla., actualized an idea once prominently advanced by...
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Sisters of St. Joseph named ‘Women in American History’
St. Benedict The Moor School, St. Augustine, Fla. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) recently recognized the Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Augustine, for the orders historic role educating...
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Democrats, school choice & the big strike that left the big split
Today’s split over school choice within the Democratic Party isn’t new. Fifty years ago, the teachers unions faced off against black and Hispanic families in NYC who had a different vision of public...
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James Baldwin on education alternatives
Wrote James Baldwin about the community control movement, which was motivated by many of the same principles that propel school choice: Community control wasn’t shut down “because it failed, but...
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In solidarity! For school choice
It may seem a stretch to attempt a school choice angle for Labor Day weekend, given teachers unions are the snag to school choice expansion. But I’ll give it a shot. The school choice advocates I know...
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A school choice classic, revisited
Coons: “What government has done is properly to recognize minimal education as a parental duty, but then improperly arranged its provision by a de facto conscription of families of lower income. “ The...
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Albert Shanker: Back to the Future
In 1989, Albert Shanker wrote a scathing critique of the public education system in the New York Times. He called for allowing Bush Administration “merit schools” to wave most regulations, and give...
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Tuthill: Al Shanker’s education decentralization talk was disingenuous
Given Al Shanker’s role in crushing the efforts of minority communities in New York City to have more control over their local schools, his 1989 call for more decentralized decision making in public...
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“Public education” is anything but public
Jack Coons of Berkeley Law writes that it’s time we all grasp that what we have called “public education” is actually anything but – and it’s long time to make it so through school choice. In much of...
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Separated and secular
The legendary Jack Coons of Berkeley writes, “One of the primary effects of this exclusion of God is that the school must now present some picture of human happiness and its achievement that fades with...
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Doug Tuthill: To have an education grand bargain for Florida’s future, look...
Richard Corcoran is the new Commissioner of Education. Fedrick Ingram is the new President of the FEA. Both have publicly signaled an interest in working together. A day after the Florida Board of...
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From the Vault: MLK and God’s schools
Editor’s note: This column originally appeared in redefinED on Aug. 26th, 2013, as part of a series to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. We are...
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Doug Tuthill: Public education and journalism
Doug Tuthill is president of Step Up For Students, which helps administer the nation’s largest private school choice program (and co-hosts this blog). I have spent my entire 42-year professional career...
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redefinED revisited: One man’s war on Florida’s desegregated schools
One of a series of murals covering the walls of the Center for Pan-African Culture at Kent State University, dedicated to a group of Kent State students called Black United Students, who first proposed...
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revisitED: Choice history, choice policy
One of a series of murals covering the walls of the Center for Pan-African Culture at Kent State University, dedicated to a group of Kent State students called Black United Students, who first proposed...
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