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Scott PowersAugust 4, 2016

Former teacher and school board member Rick Roach picked up support from the Florida Association of School Administrators in his quest to be elected to the Florida Senate in Orlando-based Senate District 13, his campaign announced Thursday. “Our organization needs to have legislators who fully understand the complexity of our school operations in order to […]

Guest AuthorApril 16, 2015

Florida has successfully operated tax credit education scholarships for 13 years. More than 70,000 underprivileged students throughout Florida currently benefit from these scholarships, which provide important school choice options. These students, whose household incomes are only 5 percent above the poverty level, two-thirds of whom are black or Hispanic, and the majority of whom live […]

Guest AuthorApril 14, 2015

Florida has successfully operated tax-credit education scholarships for 13 years. More than 70,000 underprivileged students across Florida benefit from such scholarships, which provide important school choice options. The students — whose household incomes are only 5 percent above the poverty level, two-thirds of whom are black or Hispanic, and the majority of whom live in […]

Ryan RayMarch 30, 2015

The Florida Association of School Administrators — a major plaintiff and arguably the least overtly political — has pulled out of a lawsuit challenging the legality of Florida’s corporate tax credit scholarship program. “Following a full review of priorities, the Board made the decision to focus resources on FASA’s main objective – to ensure that […]

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