Two Central Florida Republican lawmakers have not too long ago touted a “transformational” expansion of the state’s school voucher programs.
Some, nonetheless, now have raised the alarm bells as to the lawmakers’ shut ties to non-public faculties that already obtain lots of of hundreds of {dollars} from households who use state scholarships to pay tuition.
Newly elected Reps. Carolina Amesty, R-Windermere, and Doug Bankson, R-Apopka, each voted in committee final month for a invoice (HB 1) that might supply “common alternative,” with the purpose of finally permitting mother and father of any school-age baby to get state funds that would pay for personal faculty tuition or homeschooling providers.
Amesty is affiliated with Central Christian Academy, a non-public faculty on Hiawassee Street in west Orange County that has acquired not less than $262,000 in scholarship cash thus far this faculty yr and seems desperate to increase. Final week, a few dozen brilliant blue “enroll now” indicators dotted the property exterior the college’s fence whereas larger feather flags with the identical message had been seen on the campus.
Bankson is affiliated with Apopka Christian Academy, a non-public faculty within the metropolis’s downtown that has acquired greater than $926,000 in scholarships this faculty yr.
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