Florida will pay $8,000 to cover tuition for any child who opts out of public school. The program is transforming k-12 education\u2014and creating budget problems. <\/p>\n
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There’s a quiet revolution happening in K-12 education, driven by parents and teachers who say they’ve had enough.<\/p>\n
Jessica Zivkovic knows the feeling. “Ultimately I got to a point where I knew that we needed a whole overhaul,” she says, “and I could not bring about the change within the system.”<\/p>\n
A handful of states are pushing school choice to the max. “There are a lot of eyes on Florida right now,” says Tiffany Thenor. “We are kind of the pioneers of this universal voucher.”<\/p>\n
In the Sunshine State, about 14 percent of students attend a charter school and roughly 15 percent use state vouchers or education savings accounts, and traditional public schools are gradually losing students. It’s like a slowly deflating balloon. And the teachers union says it’s reckless.<\/p>\n
“What we’re seeing in Florida\u2014it feels like an abandonment of public schools,” says Andrew Spar, president of the Florida Education Association.<\/p>\n
But it’s not slowing down.<\/p>\n
Is this the future of American education?<\/p>\n
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