Florida: 2 Big Banks Abandon Florida’s Voucher Program Due to Anti-LGBT Policies
A free press makes a difference. Here is proof.
On January 23, Leslie Postal and Annie Martin of the Orlando Sentinel wrote that nearly 160 religious schools receiving vouchers from the state of Florida openly discriminate against students, families, and staff who are gay. Voucher schools drain $1 billion away from public education every year in Florida, and state legislators want to expand vouchers until they are available to every student in the state.
The next day, opinion writer Scott Maxwell of the same newspaper wrote more about public-funded religious schools rejecting students and families. He wrote:
One school told a mother — a firefighter married to U.S. Air Force veteran — that her children were unfit to be educated there simply because the couple was two women.
The two women served their country and community. But the school — which received $371,000 in state scholarship money last year — told the family to get an education elsewhere.
On January 28, the Orlando Sentinel wrote an editorial criticizing the major corporations that declare their CONTINUE READING: Florida: 2 Big Banks Abandon Florida’s Voucher Program Due to Anti-LGBT Policies | Diane Ravitch's blog