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Florida school vouchers: 5 things to know about this billion-dollar black hole

Por: Orlando Sentinel Politics March 18, 2023

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Florida lawmakers are about to take the biggest educational gamble in American history — financed with your tax dollars. They want to offer every child in Florida the chance to use publicly funded vouchers at private schools that have virtually no regulation and offer no guarantee that the students will get educated. Florida’s existing network of voucher schools is so infamously unchecked that the Orlando Sentinel has found schools employing... + full article



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