LAKELAND — As they stood in a single-file line in a school hallway ... understand what it feels like and looks like and sounds like to be a student at IDEA Public Schools,” Cook said.

LAKELAND — There’s a new kind of charter ... schools. So IDEA Public Schools, a nonprofit company based in Texas, was accepted by the state in 2018 as a School of Hope operator ...

There's an emphasis on higher education in the culture at IDEA schools. Teachers start talking about college when students are in kindergarten.