{"id":7053,"date":"2012-05-03T12:16:10","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=7053"},"modified":"2012-05-03T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T16:16:16","slug":"school-choice-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/03\/school-choice-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"School Choice, By The Numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7057\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/03\/school-choice-by-the-numbers\/choice\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7057\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7057\" title=\"Choice\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Choice-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Choice-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/05\/Choice.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">pdxdiver \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">redefinED has compiled the number of students with access to a school choice program.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The folks over at redefinED have compiled the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redefinedonline.org\/2012\/05\/in-florida-the-lines-between-public-and-private-schools-are-blurred\/\">enrollment figures for school choice programs<\/a> across Florida, including McKay scholarship for students with disabilities, dual enrollment in college courses, home schooling and other options.<\/p>\n<p>Their conclusion: That a growing number of Florida students and parents believe they should be able to choose the school program which works best for them.<\/p>\n<p>The list is a useful reminder of both the breadth of options in Florida and the number of students with access to them.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From their post:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Altogether, the numbers\u00a0underscore two things we\u00a0emphasize at redefinED: School choice \u2013 the kind that allows parents to go beyond their neighborhood school &#8211;\u00a0is becoming\u00a0mainstream in Florida. And the lines between \u201cpublic\u201d and \u201cprivate\u201d are more blurred here than in any other state.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whether the line between public and private blurring is a good thing or not is central to American education policy debate.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the chart &#8212; and all their other work &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redefinedonline.org\/2012\/05\/in-florida-the-lines-between-public-and-private-schools-are-blurred\/\">at redfinED<\/a>. The blog is affiliated with <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/step-up-for-students\/\">Step Up For Students<\/a> the non-profit which administers Florida&#8217;s low-income tax credit scholarship program for private schools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks over at redefinED have compiled the enrollment figures for school choice programs across Florida, including McKay scholarship for students with disabilities, dual enrollment in college courses, home schooling and other options. Their conclusion: That a growing number of Florida students and parents believe they should be able to choose the school program which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1139,1146,31,1008,284],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7063,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7053\/revisions\/7063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}