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From 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 in her native Caracas with a practice spread over multiple locations in the city. Her daughter, Maria Castillo Salom, attended... 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...
READ MOREThe path to being an advanced manufacturing engineer began with an education choice scholarship
The faces looking back at Da’Shaun Holmes appeared familiar. They looked like Da’Shaun. Well, a younger version of Da’Shaun. They were students at Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg, Da’Shaun’s alma...
READ MORE‘Excellence personified’: The school where 3-year-olds learn to read
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Benjamin Crump, one of the most prominent lawyers in America, aka “Black America’s attorney general,” obviously could send his daughter to any school he wanted. So, it...
READ MOREHow do you help children with severe development and behavioral needs? You build them a school
DORAL, Fla. – This was supposed to be Elise’s school, the white two-story building with beige trim that sits on a quiet street and serves students with moderate...
READ MOREBella’s life was worthy of a documentary and Columbus High senior Sebastian Broche was ‘the perfect guy’ to direct it
Originally, all Raymond Rodriguez-Torres was expecting was a public service announcement honoring his late daughter. He – and his daughter’s memory – received more. Much more. Rodriguez-Torres hoped the...
READ MOREJaydis is a ‘powerful example’ of the transformative impact education choice can have on a student
ST. PETERSBURG – Jaydis Kincade sat at a picnic table in the shade next to the vegetable garden maintained by his classmates at Academy Prep Center of St. Petersburg and set...
READ MOREThis former public school teacher created her own school. Now she’s ‘100 percent free.’
JUPITER, Fla. — When you start your own school, you make the rules. You can even bring your dog. The Andersen Academy serves 16 middle school students, nearly all...
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