Ryan NicolFebruary 17, 2021
4min1479
The program — launched after Jaime's death in the Parkland shooting — is in its second year.
Tag: Scholarship
Ryan NicolFebruary 17, 2021
Danny McAuliffeJanuary 24, 2019
3min322
More money is on its way to the scholarship program.
Ryan NicolJanuary 21, 2019
4min1083
The scholarship has a waitlist in 2019 of nearly 13,000 students.
Lloyd DunkelbergerAugust 17, 2017
6min247
Florida universities are hiring more faculty, providing more scholarships and expanding course offerings and academic counseling with a $121 million boost in funding provided by the Legislature this year. In letters to Gov. Rick Scott, the 12 state university presidents outlined plans for using their shares of $71 million in the “world class faculty and […]
Guest AuthorSeptember 28, 2016
6min459
W.E.B. Dubois once said, “To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.” I hear Dubois when I see the academic results for black students. Year after year, the outcomes remain unbearable and unconscionable. More than 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court declared an official end to separate-but-unequal schools, only […]
Tom JacksonSeptember 20, 2016
7min315
Now that the Florida Education Association has chosen to appeal its legal double-drubbing over the state’s scholarship program for students from low-income families, the question that leaps immediately to mind is this: Why does the teachers’ union hate poor kids? Seriously. About 92,000 students from modest circumstances are attending private schools through the 15-year-old Florida […]