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	<title><![CDATA[Don't Stifle Florida's Education Innovation]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/clayton-m-christensen-and-michael-b-horn/dont-stifle-floridas-educ_b_187325.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p>Florida has been <a href="http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/on-innovation/2009/01/the-best-education-disruption.html">a leader in education innovation</a> over the last decade, but one bill currently under review by the state senate's Policy &amp; Steering Committee on Ways and Means--<a href="http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillId=41077&amp;SessionId=61">Senate Bill 1676</a>--threatens to wipe much of that out with one misguided and foolhardy swipe.</p>

<p>In its present form, the bill restricts the <a href="http://www.flvs.net">Florida Virtual School (FLVS</a>)--one of the bigger policy and public education innovation success stories--in such ways that, as its president, Julie Young, said, "[it] would drastically...</p>]]></abstract>
	<taxonomy><![CDATA[Politics]]></taxonomy>
	<date_published>2009-04-15T16:16:00-04:00</date_published>
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