This school where kids see bees up close also offers a new twist on the #schoolchoice transplant story: The couple behind it moved to Florida to expand what they started in Indiana.
AJ and John Boener knew Florida’s choice scholarships would give them the opportunity to reach more families – and a more diverse set of families – than they could up north. A year after opening, Florida Wild School is already serving 50 students a week.
The à la carte operation spans two city lots in Brooksville, a town of 8,000 an hour north of Tampa. It includes a big garden, a “forest orchard,” a rainwater collection system, three composting stations, a treehouse, and, way in the back, that beehive.
When education choice becomes the new normal, all kinds of fresh, parent-driven options sprout all over the place, and families from all over come to get a taste. Can other edupreneur transplants be far behind?
nextstepsblog.org/2026/07/school…
AJ and John Boener knew Florida’s choice scholarships would give them the opportunity to reach more families – and a more diverse set of families – than they could up north. A year after opening, Florida Wild School is already serving 50 students a week.
The à la carte operation spans two city lots in Brooksville, a town of 8,000 an hour north of Tampa. It includes a big garden, a “forest orchard,” a rainwater collection system, three composting stations, a treehouse, and, way in the back, that beehive.
When education choice becomes the new normal, all kinds of fresh, parent-driven options sprout all over the place, and families from all over come to get a taste. Can other edupreneur transplants be far behind?
nextstepsblog.org/2026/07/school…
