Special needs. WTSP profiles a boy from Ethiopia who benefitted from a special needs scholarship in Florida. Step Up For Students, which publishes this blog, helps administer the Gardiner Scholarship program. Desegregation. Plaintiffs demanding integration and equity in Pinellas County schools are unsatisfied with improved test scores at troubled elementary[Read More…]
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When charter schools go traditional
Four Florida charter schools face closure after receiving multiple F’s under the state’s grading system, but at least two will likely re-open under new management: Their local school districts. The Tampa Bay Times has detailed the closure of University Preparatory Academy, a charter school that opened three years ago in an academically[Read More…]
Florida roundup: Tax credit scholarships, school choice, state board and more
Tax credit scholarships. The legislation revamping the program could see a reversal of fortune – and get combined with a separate school-choice proposal. Times/Herald. Capital funding. Both charter schools and traditional public schools stand to benefit from spending plans in the Legislature. Orlando Sentinel. Sarasota Herald-Tribune. State board. Gov. Rick Scott appoints[Read More…]