Learning Spotlights
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With help from education choice, this teacher forged a kind and curious and joyful path
SARASOTA, Fla. – After 18 years as an educator in public and private schools, Justine Wilson decided to make a change. She was excellent at her job. In fact, she had just been offered a top administrative position at a top private school. But she didn’t believe mainstream approaches... READ MOREPEP scholarship allows for ‘A-plus homeschool experience’ for one family
In July, Jessie Pedraza was reading through posts on a Facebook page for mothers who homeschool their children when she saw three words jump off her screen. Personalized Education Program....
READ MOREFrom a vision to flyers to students: Former legislator finds new way to help kids – by starting a school
LEESBURG, Fla. – The first tangible evidence of a new private school opening in town were the 1,500 fliers printed at Staples and handed to parents as they left a Publix...
READ MOREFormer public school teacher who needed to ‘break free’ creates her own learning center
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Cristina Bedgood, a 15-year former public school teacher, took two years to craft plans for her own private learning center. She knew she needed 40...
READ MOREFrom an idea to a goal to Emma’s walk of a lifetime
SARASOTA, Fla. — It was time for the valedictorian to address the assembly, so Emma Howey rose from her seat in the front row of the auditorium, left her...
READ MORE‘Alexa, how do you start a school?’
VERO BEACH, Fla. – For eight years, Danielle McLean couldn’t believe her luck. Through all of pre-school and elementary school, her twin boys Jackson and Lincoln, both on the autism...
READ MOREFrom Venezuela to the Naval Academy with the help of an education choice scholarship
RIVERVIEW – Rosa Salom Garcia’s car was reinforced to withstand bullets because the threat of being kidnapped was a part of everyday life in Venezuela. She was a leading eye surgeon...
READ MORETaking control of their children’s education with the help of the PEP scholarship
Gabriel Lynch III was born five months early and weighed 1.8 ounces when he entered this world fighting for his life. He spent his first three months in an Orlando...
READ MOREOf pop art, plate tectonics and a super-strong Minotaur: How PEP allows one family to tailor lessons to their children’s interests
Something about the Periodic Table of Elements grabs Conrad Black’s interest. All those chemicals and their atomic numbers. He heard about it, read about it, but didn’t know anything about...
READ MOREE’leese set a goal to graduate high school early and she did … at age 12
It’s halfway through summer vacation, and 12-year-old E’leese Shelton is bored. When you breeze through elementary and middle school and graduate high school before becoming a teenager, learning is your...
READ MOREHe started a scholarship at his high school to honor a friend and enable future students to have the ‘exact experience I’m having’
TAMPA – The night ended with a set of Latin music, one of Victor Peña’s favorites, and everyone inside the theater on the campus of Jesuit High School was standing and moving...
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