Education Savings Accounts and Charter Schools: New Opportunities in School Choice
Education Savings Accounts and Charter Schools: New Opportunities in School Choice
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Nineteen states have established Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), providing families with the purchasing power to direct their children’s K-12 education. The allowable uses of these accounts vary by state, but ESAs largely cover private school tuition, tutoring, curriculum and instructional materials, and—increasingly—individual courses at public schools. There are about 120,000 students in Florida alone that employ ESAs outside of private school tuition, and there are at least 14 countywide school districts in Florida—along with several charter school networks—that have actively sought to make their programming available to ESA-bearing families. Join Executive Director for School Choice at the Florida Department of Education, Adam Emerson, as he hosts leaders in the ESA space and in Florida charter schools as they share lessons learned and what that means for a nation that will continue to see ESAs grow.
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Presenters
Executive Director, Office of School Choice
Florida Department of Education
Adam Emerson is the Executive Director of the Office of K-12 School Choice at the Florida Department of Education. In this role, Adam oversees and administers all state-level school choice programs, including charter schools, home and private education, the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, and the Family Empowerment Scholarship. Prior to that, he served as the Department’s charter schools director providing oversight and assistance to a sector of public education that now numbers more than 700 charter schools. Before joining the Department in 2014, Adam managed the policy program on charter schools and school choice at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education policy think tank in Washington. D.C.
Assistant Director, Provider Development
Step Up For Students
Keith Jacobs is a 20-year educator from Tampa, FL. He currently serves as the Assistant Director of Provider Development at Step Up For Students. Prior to working at Step Up, he spent 14 years as a middle school teacher, middle and high school assistant principal at magnet schools, and a K-8 charter school principal. Keith possesses a bachelor's degree in business from The University of Florida and a master's degree in educational leadership from Nova Southeastern University.
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