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Florida Lawmaker Defends School Choice
October 22, 2012
There is a growing body of data supporting school choice as a viable and practical means of helping low income students gain access to productive schools. Despite this, detractors continue to employ union rhetoric against choice, including the disproven idea that school choice is a legislative scheme to help the rich.   When Florida House Representative John Julien  recently came under attack for his support of school choice  (...
NYC Spends $22 Million, Gets Nothing
October 18, 2012
A few years ago, much attention was given to the "rubber rooms" in the New York City public school system. These were taxpayer-funded facilities where teachers who had been banned from the classroom would sit out the workday, collect a paycheck, and wait for their disciplinary cases to be decided. Thanks to union contracts that allowed teachers to be removed from duty, but not from the payroll, up to 800 of these "fired by not...
Miami Superintendent: Ride the wave, or succumb to it
October 10, 2012
Alberto Carvalho, Superitnendent of Miami-Dade School District, wasn't talking about the "Gangnam Style" sensation when he told the education establishment to "Ride the wave, or succumb to it." He was talking about school choice options for families.   Here is the full quote - "Change is going to accelerate. And you need to learn about what the change is, impose your own change just to survive. We are now...

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