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Time Out, Florida’s Ball

By Julie Delegal

For Folio Weekly, November 9, 2009 edition Re-pubished on JaxPoliticsOnline.com with permission of Folio Weekly, all rights reserved “… I need to make it clear that I do not believe that the Budget appropriately and adequately funds a high quality education for every student in Florida.” These words appeared in a six-page indictment of Florida’s public schools,... »

Taxpayer-funded vouchers balloon in Florida

By Abel Harding

From The Sun-Sentinel: More than two years ago, the state stopped giving tuition vouchers to students who wanted to leave failing public schools for private school. Since then, Florida's other two programs that pay private-school tuition for disabled kids or poor children have grown by 21 percent and 65 percent respectively. Today, 42,000 Florida students... »