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This ed choice scholarship alumni is a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate, a business owner, and a college professor
Oct 21, 2026 • By Roger Mooney
Student Spotlights , Beyond the Scholarship , Family Empowerment Scholarship for Educational Options , Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities , Florida Tax Credit Scholarship , Rising Stars , Step Up For Students
With his mom as inspiration, and an ed choice scholarship leading the way, Mason is 'going places'
Feb 13, 2026 • By Roger Mooney
Student Spotlights, Home Education, Homeschool, Personalized Education Program, School Choice, Step Up For Students
'Wild boy' Leon loves Legos, math, cooking, rescuing animals, and swimming with whale sharks
There are two reasons why Katherine and Spencer Nelson home-educate their son Leon: travel and time. The first is easy. The family has a passion for traveling and the learning that comes with it. The second is personal. “I have a couple of different genetic mutations that, long story short, my life expectancy is not […]
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This ed choice scholarship alumni is a licensed clinical social worker with a doctorate, a business owner, and a college professor
Middle school is where Dr. Jasmine Cohen-Young learned to dance. It’s where she fell in love with basketball, a sport that helped pay for college. It’s where she learned that being challenged academically is a good thing and that an improperly tied knot on a sailboat is a bad thing, especially if a loose rope […]
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PEP scholarship benefits students 'whose needs don’t fit inside the one-size-fits-all system'
Lily Wheeler loves project-based learning, and she loves to draw. She loves phonics lessons that combine the two. Draw a letter and draw an object that matches the letter. One lesson from this past school year stands out to her mother, Erica. Lily, a kindergartener, couldn’t stop looking out the window, and she wouldn’t stop […]
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What does America mean to Caleb? Freedom, honor, and a whole lot more
To me, America is more than just a country. It means freedom, liberty, and honor. That’s how Caleb Vergara Scott began the nearly 308-word essay he wrote for a contest celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. The topic: What does America mean to him? He summed it up with his title: America the […]
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Of Haydn, hens, and tree forts: The diverse home education of Chiara, the PEP student
TALLAHASSEE – Joseph Haydn’s Sonata 16 filled the house as Chiara Lemmon’s fingers moved across the keys of the family’s piano. Eyes nearly closed, she concentrated on each note. Her head gently bobbed along with the music. A few minutes later, Chiara sat in an adjoining room with her cello. “The music room,” her father, […]
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New report shows scaling Florida scholarship program 11 times more effective at improving student performance than increasing public school funding
New research by the American Federation for Children found that scaling Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program over 15 years improved public school student achievement. The report published March 4 by AFC senior fellow Patrick Graff, a former Florida Catholic school teacher, compared two leading peer-reviewed studies of each approach that used Florida data: a 2023 study of Florida’s Tax Credit Scholarship Program over 15 years and […]
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With his mom as inspiration, and an ed choice scholarship leading the way, Mason is 'going places'
Lidia Fleites leaves her son with these words every morning when she drops him off at school. “Mason, focus.” “Mason, do good.” And Mason Fernandez, a freshman at Monsignor Edward Pace High School in Miami, hops out of the car and does just that. Mason, 15, has been an academic star since first grade, the […]
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The challenges of attending a private school prepared the Mathis siblings for the challenges of life
ST. PETERSBURG – Life, it’s often said, is what happens when you’re making other plans. Tasia Mathis planned on joining the U.S. Navy Reserve. Then her grandmother, with whom Tasia and her younger brother Jeremiah lived with, died suddenly from complications of kidney failure. “The papers were signed, but I wasn’t able to go through […]
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Why retire when you can breathe life into your alma mater and save it from closing
HAVANA – It was a typical July afternoon in Florida’s Panhandle. The air was hot and sticky, and the sun hid behind the dark gray thunder clouds building to the north of Robert F. Munroe Day School in Havana. A warm breeze kicked up, signaling the approaching late-day storm. The students who darted about earlier […]
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Lofty dreams and a PEP scholarship power 12-year-old pilot in training
MELBOURNE – When it comes to her son’s education, Denice Santos always thinks about the big picture. “What can we do to merge his goals?” she said. “Education, and then, of course, becoming a pilot.” Her son, William, 12, has wanted to fly airplanes for half his life. He took control of a plane for […]
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