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This farm sprouted a homeschool co-op – and a peek into the future

 The Kirby Family Farm isn’t a farm in the usual sense, even if it does produce a few acres of hay and peanuts now and then. It is a farm, though, if you see it like Tracy Kirby sees it. “Our main crop,” she says, “is kids.” Ten years ago, Tracy, a former public-school teacher, and her husband, Daryl, bought 110 acres next to this town of 2,700 because, well, Daryl found READ MORE

 

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Word for word: SUFS president on expansion of education choice in Florida

Step Up For Students president Doug Tuthill appeared last week before the Florida House of Representatives’ Pre-K – 12 Education Appropriations Subcommittee to answer questions about how state scholarship programs are managed and how improvements could be made after passage of HB 7045, the nation’s largest education choice expansion. READ MORE

 

New leader at one of Florida’s oldest Catholic schools seeks to boost community

Catholic education has defined LaTonya White’s professional life for the past 23 years. For 17 of those years, she served as a classroom teacher, middle school lead teacher, dean of students and elementary school principal in the Diocese of Memphis, Tennessee. Additionally, she spent four years as an elementary school principal in the Diocese of Little Rock, Arkansas, READ MORE


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