To lawmakers, Florida's first all-charter school district is ‘a success story’ worth replicating. Chronic discipline challenges complicate that narrative.
‘It’s totally obliterated local rule’: How a troubled, segregated district lost its public schools.
Unelected state education officials directed Jefferson County’s private takeover. The sidelined superintendent says they ‘played in places they shouldn’t have.’
A South Florida charter school network now runs a small district 500 miles away. Legislators with close financial ties to charters helped make that happen.
Lawmakers argue: Money isn’t the answer to failing schools. In Jefferson County, extra millions made a difference.
What is Somerset? A look at the South Florida charter school network leading Florida’s first school-district takeover.
Charter ‘schools of hope’ get extra funding and special treatment. They’ll soon enroll thousands of students throughout Florida.
See the connections among the characters and institutions that made the Jefferson County charter district happen.