FL mom: Without more school choice, we’ll get more welfare
Editor’s note: About 200 people who support Florida’s tax credit scholarship program, including many scholarship students themselves, attended yesterday’s legislative committee hearing on a bill to...
View ArticleCharter school offers refuge from bullies, remedies for struggles
A charter school helped Michael and Jonathan Palmertree find refuge from bullying. JACKSONVILLE – The rock seemed to come out of nowhere, startling the boys walking home from school in the calm of an...
View ArticleStudy: Private schools are safer
Students at private schools, for example, were 8 percent more likely to have never experienced physical conflicts, 28 percent more likely to have never experienced another student possessing a weapon...
View ArticleFundraising begins for school choice scholarship for bullying victims
The Hope Scholarship is for K-12 students victimized by bullying. Fundraising officially began October 1st – the beginning of National Bullying Prevention Month. Fundraising officially began Monday for...
View ArticleApplications open for nation’s first scholarship for bullied students
The Hope Scholarship is the nation’s first scholarship for bullied students. More than 46,000 Florida students in district schools were subjected to harassment, bullying or violence in the ’15-’16...
View ArticleA refuge for the most bullied
Kasey, 14, is one of nearly 40 students enrolled this fall at the Albert Einstein Academy, a charter school serving mostly LGBTQ students in metro Cleveland. (Photo by Ken Blaze.) LAKEWOOD, Ohio – Last...
View ArticleOnce bullied, now safe, happy, and thriving
Armani Powe, 12, stands tall and proud, happy to be a student at Glades Day School. BELLE GLADE, Fla. – When she’s in class, the look on Armani Powe’s face is solemn, focused. She doesn’t harden her...
View ArticleSiblings find safety, inspiration and second family at charter school
Dylan Stanton refers to educator Glenn Goodwin as “The God of Teachers.” Once bullied, Dylan has thrived at Renaissance Charter School at Tradition. Editor’s note: Throughout July, redefinED is...
View ArticleStudents suffering from anxiety, bullying and discrimination need options
Recently, the hashtag #ilovepublicschools trended on Twitter, but perhaps not in the way intended. My intent in sharing a sample of what happened when public school students and parents began weighing...
View ArticleThe malady spreading among teens prior to COVID-19
Back in February, the hashtag #ilovepublicschools trended on Twitter, but for reasons not intended by the originators. Many students used the hashtag as a vehicle to speak out about the bullying,...
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