Florida’s first all-charter school district was engineered by unelected state bureaucrats at then-Gov. Rick Scott’s Department of Education, funded by state lawmakers with apparent financial conflicts and carried out by a charter school network based in South Florida, nearly 500 miles away.

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This “experiment” in rural Jefferson County has been transformational for many students but disastrous for a few. And it’s already changing education in Florida forever.

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Listen to this hourlong audio documentary and read the multimedia investigative series, a project that was also featured in print in the Tampa Bay Times and the Miami Herald.