reimaginED

reimaginED is a communications platform focused on policy and public affairs for Step Up For Students, a nonprofit organization in Florida recognized by the state for managing four scholarship programs that benefit K-12 students. Originally launched as redefinED over ten years ago, reimaginED aims to explore and share insights on how expanded educational choices are reshaping K-12 education in Florida and beyond. The reimaginED team looks at the opportunities and challenges of personalizing education for each student, situated in a state known for being a leader in educational choice. Our contributors draw on their expertise to discuss the growing variety of educational options available—such as traditional public schools, charter schools, private and parochial schools, homeschooling, and learning pods—and the different ways families can access these options, including tax credit scholarships, state-funded scholarships, and education savings accounts. This creates a unique opportunity to rethink education.

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'Game Changers' in K-12 choice

Nov 14, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Matthew Ladner

Perun, the rock star of Australian defense economists doing awesome hour-plus hour PowerPoint presentations on YouTube, recently did two such presentations on “game-changing” weapon systems in the ongoing Ukraine-Russian war.
Illinois’s ignominious first could uproot thousands of scholarship students

Nov 13, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Travis Pillow

Barring a Hail Mary this spring, Illinois’s five-year run as a blue-state bastion of educational options will end after the current school year. This is the first defeat of its kind in the modern era of the private school choice movement. Historically, once programs get going, they become hard to dislodge. Democrats took over the Nevada Legislature in 2016 and smothered the Silver State’s first-in-the-nation universal education savings account before it could serve a single student.
Get Smart Fast, vol. 18

Nov 12, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Travis Pillow

Educators can be trained, certified and spend years on the job without ever encountering what science says about how young people learn. Scientists are trying. The 2014 bestseller “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel, made an urgent case for these ideas.
What's going on with homeschooling numbers?

Nov 10, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Travis Pillow

For the past several years, the story of American homeschooling has been a narrative sorely lacking reliable numbers. Last week, The Washington Post filled the void with the first carefully assembled nationwide look at state and local administrative data. It found that in the states where comparable data exist, homeschooling is up 51% during a six-year period that includes the pandemic and years since. That’s a seismic shift in American public education, but it’s still poorly understood.
Florida Senate’s deregulation push targets third-grade retention, testing and turnarounds

Nov 9, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Lisa Buie

A provision that made Florida a national literacy leader 20 years ago could be repealed in an effort to ease the regulatory burden on Florida’s school districts. A state Senate panel unveiled a package of proposed deregulation legislation. One proposal would end the requirement that public schools hold back third graders who struggle in reading. House Bill 1, passed earlier this year, created the largest expansion of education choice in the nation’s history.
Fla. lawmakers unanimously boost special needs scholarship funding - reimaginED

Nov 8, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Travis Pillow

The Florida House and Senate unanimously backed bills designed to make sure any student who wants an education choice scholarship for students with unique abilities can get one. House Bill 1, the landmark legislation passed earlier this year, raised the cap on enrollment in the state’s Unique Abilities scholarship program and ensured the number of available scholarships would grow more quickly in future years.
Go Down, Moses - reimaginED

Nov 7, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Matthew Ladner

Go down, MosesWay down in Egypt’s landTell old PharaohLet my people goThe Texas House of Representatives closed out the 3rd special session by filing a deeply flawed ESA bill but never held a hearing on it. Stay tuned for further developments. Meanwhile, the Texas Tribune filed a fantastic piece featuring three Dallas Black mothers who support a choice program in order to allow themselves and others in their communities to run and sustain their own schools.
Get Smart Fast, vol. 17

Nov 5, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Travis Pillow

The New Yoker‘s Emma Green digs into the problems with teacher licensure exams and the controversy surrounding the ways they disproportionately block educators of color from entering the profession. It’s a vicious cycle: Black and Latino students are more likely to attend failing schools, where research shows they’re more likely to be placed with teachers who are uncertified or still in training.
Better with age? Study shows 'maturation' of Florida school choice programs boosts public school results

Nov 3, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Travis Pillow

The longer Florida’s private school scholarship programs operated, the bigger the benefits for students in public schools. That’s the headline finding from a new study published this week in the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. Researchers David Figlio, Cassandra Hart and Krzysztof Karbownik have been studying Florida’s school choice programs for years.
Two ed choice giants join forces to defend families' freedom as ESAs usher in new era

Nov 2, 2023 | reimaginedonline.org | Lisa Buie

The school choice movement has entered a new era. A clear signal of that came today with the announcement that Institute for Justice, the national public interest law firm that successfully argued the 2022 landmark U.S. Supreme Court case establishing parental freedom in state school choice programs, is partnering with the national research nonprofit EdChoice to defend future legal challenges to school choice programs.