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'The kind of student you dream about' flourishes with the help of an education choice scholarship

Winter Park – The piano stood silent in the corner of the empty gymnasium until Riccardo Cerutti sat on the bench, lifted the key lid, and played the opening notes of Billy Joel’s signature song, “Piano Man.” “That’s me,” Riccardo said, “Piano Man.” He moved on to “Bohemian Rhapsody,” the 1975 rock ‘n’ roll anthem […]
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Slide Insurance helps provide more than 60 scholarships for Florida schoolchildren

TAMPA, Fla.– Slide Insurance has contributed $500,000 to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, helping more than 60 Florida students access the education option that is best for them to succeed. Slide Insurance is a technology-enabled insurance company revolutionizing every facet of property insurance and offers home, condo, and commercial residential products through a network […]
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Cadence Bank donates $400,000 to scholarships for Florida students

Tampa, Fla.– Cadence Bank has contributed $400,000 to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, helping nearly 50 Florida students access the education that is best for them to succeed. Cadence Bank is a leading regional banking franchise with more than 400 branch locations across the South, Midwest and Texas. It provides consumers, businesses and corporations […]
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Author! Author! Charisma loves school so much she wrote a book about it

SANFORD, Florida – Charisma Lowery loves fractions, which is not something you hear every day from a third-grader, but she does. Mixed fractions, improper fractions – bring ’em on. Charisma, 7, loves fractions so much that one morning while in the second grade, she jumped out of her mom’s car during drop-off and ran to […]
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Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company donates $5 million to help provide scholarships for Florida students

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.– Step Up For Students announced December 4 that Universal Property & Casualty Insurance Company (UPCIC) has contributed $5 million to the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship Program, helping nearly 620 Florida schoolchildren access the education option that is best for them. Since 2017, UPCIC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Universal Insurance Holdings, Inc., […]
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Two more Step Up schools earn prestigious National Blue Ribbon Schools distinction

St. Michael Academy in Fernandina Beach and St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Tallahassee were among the 15 Florida schools to be recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as 2024 National Blue Ribbon Schools. They are the only private schools of the 15. Both accept Florida educational choice scholarships managed by Step […]
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From an idea to a goal to Emma's walk of a lifetime

Sarasota – It was time for the valedictorian to address the assembly, so Emma Howey rose from her seat in the front row of the auditorium, left her walker behind, and, with the help of her favorite teacher, made her way to the edge of the stage. “I can’t believe I’m doing this,” she remembered […]
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Of pop art, plate tectonics and a super-strong Minotaur: How PEP allows one family to tailor lessons to their children's interests

Something about the Periodic Table of Elements grabs Conrad Black’s interest. All those chemicals and their atomic numbers. He heard about it, read about it, but didn’t know anything about it. Until this past school year. For his fifth-grade science course, Conrad chose to learn about energy and chemistry – specifically, the Periodic Table. “He […]
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By catering to students who learn differently, Beacon College helped Ryan 'Blow away expectations'

LEESBURG – Ryan Sleboda is a college graduate with a degree in anthrozoology, a 4.0 GPA, and the distinction of being one of five valedictorians for Beacon College’s Class of 2024. He’s sailing off to a future where he expects to own a business – a doggy daycare – and live on his own. “That’s […]
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Two Step Up For Students schools earn coveted National Blue Ribbon Schools distinction

Holy Spirit Catholic School, a preK-8 school in Jacksonville with an enrollment of 219, and St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, with a student body of more than 2,000, are the only schools in Florida to earn the coveted National Blue Ribbon Schools distinction for 2022. Both schools have students who receive education […]
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