Tag: Marco Rubio
Lawmakers praise Fifth Third Bank for decision to resume support of tax credit scholarships
Within an hour of Fifth Third Bank’s announcement via a press release that it will continue to fund scholarships for Florida’s most disadvantaged students, state lawmakers took to social media to thank the bank for reconsidering its decision to fund the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship program. Those lawmakers included Rep.... READ MOREParents, the president and private school choice
ORLANDO – Renee Oliver started sending her children to St....
READ MORERubio: Make Florida a model for nationwide private school choice
Republican presidential contender Marco Rubio says he wants to create a...
READ MOREThousands kick off School Choice Week in Jacksonville
Nearly 2,000 students and parents packed Jacksonville’s Florida Theatre to...
READ MORERubio: Attack on school choice in FL should concern parents everywhere
From an op-ed on FoxNews.com today authored by U.S. Sen. Marco...
READ MOREFlorida roundup: Dual enrollment, career ed, private schools & more
Dual enrollment: Students enrolled in the College Academy at Broward College...
READ MOREFlorida Gov. Rick Scott: Keep Common Core, retreat on PARCC
Common Core is okay. But the new, multi-state tests aligned...
READ MOREFlorida schools roundup: School grades, Common Core, charter schools & more
School grades: Florida has a record-high 107 F-rated schools this year....
READ MOREDesigning tax credit scholarship programs
I have written an article about tax credit scholarship plans...
READ MORETeachers are choosing schools, too
Parents aren’t the only ones driving the expansion of school...
READ MOREredefinED roundup: Parent trigger in Florida, vouchers in Louisiana and Wisconsin, charter schools in D.C. and more
Florida: Parent trigger fails again in the Senate with a...
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