Step Up for Students Misleading Use of Pro-Voucher Study
Step Up for Students is getting faster at rapid response. Late last week, Dr. Rosa Castro Feinberg’s expose regarding voucher schools poor record of implementation and service for English language learners. Step Up for Students’ (SUFS) board member Julio Fuentes responded to Castro’s piece, Castro Feinberg countered and a few hours ago, Fuentes, um, re-countered. Fuentes predictably surrounded his
Will Sachs, Montford Amendments Be Too Much for Senate Voucher Advocates?
Late yesterday and this morning, Sen. Maria Sachs (D-Delray Beach) and Sen. Bill Montford (D-Tallahassee) have inserted amendments into SB 1512 which will make senate voucher advocates put up, or shut up on accountability for voucher schools. From Sachs filed moments ago: Upon release of information from the Learning Service Institute in accordance with paragraph (9)(j), reporting to a scholarship
Another Day, Another Misrepresentation of Opposition to Vouchers
The institutional straw man defense of taxpayer-funded school vouchers continues. In an opinion piece Don’t Blame Vouchers for Poor Science Instruction another American Enterprise Institute scholar takes the plunge. Writes Michael Q. McShane in the Tallahassee Democrat: Re: “Science has a spot in voucher debates” (My View, April 16). I share Brandon Haught’s desire for sound science education in F
4-30-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Today’s Voucher Expansion Vote Will Forever Define Senate RepublicansA 2013 report from Charity Navigator gives Step Up for Students high marks as administrator of Florida’s voucher system, the misleading named the Florida Tax Credit Program. The report in PR Web quotes