About The Author

Roger Mooney

Roger Mooney is the marketing communications manager for Step Up For Students. He joined the organization after a career as a sports and features writer for several Florida newspapers, including the Tampa Tribune and Tampa Bay Times.
06/23/23
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PLANTATION, Florida – There was no way William “JR” Moreland was taking AP Language and Composition as a junior, or so...
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06/16/23
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MIAMI – Nery Perez-Valdes wanted to become a doctor, but life got in the way. She fled Cuba for Miami with...
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06/02/23
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PINELLAS PARK – David Facey remembers sitting in his Language Arts class last year hoping for salvation. Hoping someone would pull...
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05/26/23
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PALM COAST – Every school day at 7 a.m., a small bus rolls to a stop in front of the rectory...
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05/19/23
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Joshua Akabosu was nearly hit by a truck when he was 10. He had run from school that day, as...
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04/14/23
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LAKELAND, FLA – Jaylen Arnold was 8 when he walked into his old elementary school to speak with two dozen or...
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04/07/23
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PLANT CITY – Lilly Bowden flipped through her sketch pad and proudly showed off her work. There’s a fox on one...
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02/17/23
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TAMPA – The numbers Joquez Smith compiled as a running back during his four years of high school football place him...
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01/20/23
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OKEECHOBEE – Peyton Williams entered this world with a damaged heart, a damaged airway and hardly any hope from doctors who...
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11/11/22
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MIAMI – Louise Janvier uses the word “environment” often when talking about education choice and how it can rescue a child....
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