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Monday, March 17, 2014

3-17-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida

Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:











The Florida Voucher Cap Cost Limit Allows for a Stunning Rise to Almost $1 Billion

When a Florida superintendent of schools said last week that the expansion of Florida’s voucher program would rise to $1 billion in five years, he knew what he was talking about. From the text of SB 1620: Scholarship Funding Tax Credit Cap Limits.—The Department of Revenue may approve annual tax credit amounts under s. 1002.395 or s. 1002.396 until the sum of such approvals under both sections com
3-16-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Miami Herald: “Vouchers Please a Few, But Undercuts the Many”The Miami Herald became the latest large state daily to criticize the republican legislatures’ latest expansion of its school voucher program: Florida’s school vouchers, called the Tax Credit Scholarship progra