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Sunday, March 16, 2014

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:







Florida’s Voucher Expansion Assures the Expansion and Enrichment of the Step Up for Students Brand
It’s now called the Florida Sales Tax Credit Program, a teeny-weeny little change in what was simply the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship. Sponsored by Sen. Bill Galvano (R-Bardenton),  SB 1620 is summarized this way: Tax Credit Scholarship Programs; Creating a credit against the sales and use tax for contributions to an eligible nonprofit scholarship-funding organization; revising the disqualifying

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 program pays for about 60,000 students to attend private schools, of which more than 80 percent are religious. However, this is money that, in effect, has been denied to the public-school system a
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Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education:Scathing Purple Musings  Color me purple in Florida ALL WeekWhat Charter Schools USA CEO Jonathan Hage Knows That Floridians Don’tFrom Orlando Sentinel reporter Lauren Roth: Charter Schools USA isn’t waiting for a judge to decide if it can open a disputed school in Orange