Schools of Hope

The Department of Education will allow the Jefferson County School District to regain oversight of its school system after five years of charter school control. The abrupt new development comes on the heels of a failed effort to find another charter school operator for the district.

Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has set his sights on Duval County Schools. The district has nearly a dozen chronically low-performing…

In 2017 the legislature decided to give greater incentives to charter schools to serve students in low-performing traditional schools. Today an attempt to…

A new law aimed at stopping so-called “failure factories” could ensnare two Leon County Schools. But Superintendent Rocky Hanna says he’s got no intention…

Somerset Academy Inc., is one of new “Schools of Hope” operators in Florida. A law approved last year allows additional state funding and exemptions to…

More than a dozen school districts are challenging a law requiring them to share local construction funds with charter schools. But some of those same…

Florida lawmakers appear to be moving forward with a House priority bill boosting funding to charter schools that set up near chronically failing public…

Florida has more than 100 schools that it labels persistently failing. Those schools have earned D’s and F’s for several years in a row. Many of them…