Tag: Opportunity Scholarships
Florida schools roundup: Budgets, legal fees, firings, start times and more
School budgeting: The Lake County School District’s tentative budget for the next year is set at $549 million. The district’s tax millage rate will fall slightly, but a 7 percent increase in property values will largely offset the decline. Orlando Sentinel. Daily Commercial. The Clay County School District sets a... READ MOREFlorida Opportunity Scholarships are back
After a one-year hiatus, Florida’s public school choice program for...
READ MOREGloria Romero gives parent empowerment a new push
California’s parent empowerment law spawned organizing campaigns aimed at transforming...
READ MORE“Vouchers,” faith-based schools expand opportunities for low-income kids
Editor’s note: This op-ed ran in today’s Orlando Sentinel. Florida...
READ MOREIn Obama’s Term 2, a historic opportunity to expand parental school choice
President Obama has often called on us to be true...
READ MOREAgonizing over Amendment 8
Our preoccupation these days with a Florida amendment removing the...
READ MOREDoes the Florida Constitution support school choice?
Former Florida House Speaker Jon Mills (pictured here) will now...
READ MOREVouchers at the RNC: ‘Because I had choice in my education, I was granted a better life’
To highlight the power of school choice, Jeb Bush, during...
READ MORELegislative Watch: Pennsylvania, Indiana bills get marathon hearings; Virginia measure dies
While a Senate committee in Virginia killed a proposed tax-credit...
READ MOREArguing with the straw man
No matter how fair-minded advocates for school vouchers or tax...
READ MORERattling the constitutional cage
Ron Meyer is the longtime attorney for the Florida Education...
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