🎧 Listen to the Full Episode Now! In this episode (#HEFPodcast Ep. 151), Jason, Brenda and Dina look back at what homeschooling was like decades ago versus the booming commercial landscape today, sharing wisdom on how to protect your family's freedom and wallet. Imagine your child falls while playing outside and scrapes their knee. It’s an open wound. It could get infected. It definitely needs care. Do you get afraid you're not enough? Do you call an ambulance, and wait for

Today, Jason Crawford and Brenda Dickinson hosted on the podcast the interviews conducted with the candidates for FLORIDA GOVERNOR! 10 questions hyper-focused on education, parental rights, and governance.

#HEFPodcast Episode 145 Home Education Rights in FL

Today, we interviewed Step Up for Students (SUFS) about whether Florida's school choice scholarships are really destroying public schools as the news outlets (and FEA) claim. We slow the conversation down and dive into the data to bring you the facts of what's really going on. You may be surprised at the answers!

The Florida Educators Association (FEA) has filed a lawsuit against the Florida Department of Education, the Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas, and the State Board of Education, Tuesday, May 5th, 2026. For the sake of transparency, a link to their website with a copy of the filing is available here. And just in case they move or remove it, we’ve downloaded a copy and uploaded it to this link for our readers to access. And, if you want to look it up yourself, you

2026 Florida Senate Bill 538 & What YOU NEED TO KNOW

Letter from Commissioner of Education Anastasios Kamoutsas for Winter Break 2025.

On today's HEF livestream, we covered some key issues we're concerned about with Senate Bill 318 for this upcoming session. (For our full discussion, you can view the video from today's livestream on Facebook , YouTube , or Rumble , or listen to the podcast version on Spotify , Apple Podcasts , or Amazon Music !) Below is a rundown (in writing) of those issues we discussed today. There are also some positive changes in this bill from what we saw last year, which we're listi

An overview of 2026 Florida Senate Bill 318 and its proposed changes to Florida's educational scholarship programs.

First off, thank you to our new Commissioner of Education, Anastasios Kamoutsas, for your support and focus on empowering parents. We...

Did you know that home education has only been legal in Florida since 1985? It's true — 2025 marks the 40th anniversary of parents'...

Yesterday was an AWESOME day for 1006.15 and Brenda Dickinson. The Craig Dickinson Act (found in Florida Statute 1006.15) has been under...

If you're local to Tallahassee (or even remotely near it in Florida), and you: Home educate your children Use the Personalized Education...

In Florida, Umbrella Schools are considered private schools. They are sometimes also referred to as 600 schools, because of Florida...

What is Home Education? Parent-Directed Education, and it's very important to faithfully protect that definition. Here's why.

HEF's analysis: FTC-PEP is not a government funded program. It is funded from private, voluntary contributions to the Scholarship Funding...