Ashley Lopez: In a repeat of last year, the Florida Senate voted down the controversial “parent trigger” bill in a tie vote this week.

Ashley Lopez: There are a couple of explanations floating around for what’s going on with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Steve Miller: Meridian Strategies, the lobbying firm that doubles as the management group for Jeb Bush’s controversial education reform nonprofits, on Monday pulled its lobbying registration following a Sunday news story questioning its role in the Bush operations.

Ashley Lopez: Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush took a hard right turn while Congress hashes out immigration reform plans.

Ashley Lopez: A bill that would allow parents to decide the fate of failing public schools — which could mean turning a troubled public school into a charter school — will come up for consideration in the upcoming session of the Florida Legislature.

Ashley Lopez: A new data dump of emails from Jeb Bush’s education Foundation — a group aimed at passing school reforms in states all over the country– is heavily linked to the corporate interests that fund their efforts. In many cases, the corporate funders are benefiting greatly from the reforms Bush’s foundation is selling to states.

Ashley Lopez: Everyone in Washington, D.C., wants to know what immigration reform looks like to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

Sarah González, Mc Nelly Torres y Lynn Waddell: En el curso escolar 2010-11, el 54 por ciento de los graduados de secundaria desaprobaron por lo menos una asignatura en los exámenes de ingreso del Sistema de Colleges de la Florida

Sarah Gonzalez, Mc Nelly Torres and Lynn Waddell: In 2010-11, 54 percent of students coming out of high school failed at least one subject on the Florida College System’s placement test

Ashley Lopez: The Broward School Board brought attention to an amendment teachers and civil rights advocates say could drain money from public schools and redirect those dollars into religious schools.