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podcastED: National charter school movement leader talks about charter performance and Oklahoma’s approval of a religious charter school
On this episode, senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Nina Rees, president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Founded in 2005, the alliance’s stated mission is to ensure all children have access to a high-quality public education regardless of their ZIP code. Rees... READ MOREpodcastED: Advocate says nation’s first religious charter school will fill important niche
On this episode, senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Brett Farley, executive director of the Catholic Conference of Oklahoma. Founded in 2017 by Oklahoma’s Catholic bishops, the Catholic Conference...
READ MOREpodcastED: ‘Multiple choice’ Florida mom grateful for K-12 scholarship, robust education choice laws
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Sue Luther of Largo, Florida, a former private school teacher and single parent of two military-dependent sons. Both boys have...
READ MOREpodcastED: Florida Virtual School manager hopes new courses will teach students to embrace AI
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Amy Heflin, senior manager for STEM curriculum at Florida Virtual School. Heflin discusses a new high school course program in...
READ MOREpodcastED: Florida scholarship mom delighted with end to waitlist for children with unique abilities
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Rachel Hayon Sabbah, a nurse and mother of four daughters, including two who receive the Florida Family Empowerment Scholarship for...
READ MOREpodcastED: Founder of Arizona charter school for children with autism seeks to take model national
On this episode, senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Diana Diaz-Harrison, a former teacher, television journalist and founder at Arizona Autism Charter School in Phoenix, the Southwest region’s only tuition-free...
READ MOREpodcastED: Step Up For Students top leaders discuss how Florida’s HB 1 will transform education choice in the Sunshine State through flexibility
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Doug Tuthill and Amy Graham of Step Up For Students, the nation’s largest K-12 education choice scholarship funding organization....
READ MOREpodcastED: South Florida mom welcomes education savings account flexibility for two sons
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Aimée Uriarte, a single parent whose two sons attend Christopher Columbus High School, an all-male Catholic school in Miami. Older...
READ MOREpodcastED: W.Va. mom takes bold stand to help save education choice for families in Mountain State
On this episode, reimaginED senior writer Lisa Buie talks with Katie Switzer, a soon-to-be-mother of five who played a key role in helping overturn a court ruling that shut down...
READ MOREpodcastED: Step Up For Students President Doug Tuthill talks with New Hampshire education choice pioneer Kate Baker Demers
On this episode, Tuthill interviews Demers, who started the Children’s Scholarship Fund in New Hampshire, and has worked tirelessly as its executive director for the establishment of a tax credit...
READ MOREVideo: With rural school choice, a pearl of a school
Editor’s note: This is the third video in our series on school choice in rural areas. You can check out the first two here and here. And you can see...
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