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Category: Home Education

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PEP allows Lyra to fly through the air with the greatest of ease

VENICE – He is not afraid. Lyra Kerr wants to make that clear. He is not afraid to climb a ladder that rises 29 feet above ground. He’s not afraid to stand on the small platform near the top of that ladder and reach for the bar that will swing him over the safety net. […]
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Budding hockey player has a lot of PEP in his game

The spring trip to Sweden and Finland for a hockey tournament would be a scholastic problem for Nick Hacking if not for a Florida education choice scholarship. The games will be played over 10 days in April. Add travel to and from that part of Europe, and that’s a lot of time away from school. […]
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'Dramatic! You can underline that and write it in bold' – A mom's take on the impact of a PEP scholarship

SARASOTA – There are sewing classes, a STEM lab, and what they call “farm school.” Programs for music, acting, and art. Tutors for math and science, reading and language arts. “Totally à la carte,” Elisa Rothbloom described the home education program she and her husband, Dustin Snyder, created for their four children. “And it’s totally […]
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For this family, hybrid home education includes a class at the district high school

Each school day at 2:35 p.m., Joshua Jones enters a classroom at Crescent City Junior-Senior High School and settles into an agriculture class for eighth-graders. It’s the only class Joshua attends at the school, located about six miles from his home. And it caps the academic portion of his day, which starts at 8:30 a.m. […]
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Ed Choice scholarship helps student-athlete navigate the world of Name, Image, and Likeness

CLEARWATER, Florida – A check recently arrived in the mail for Landon Green, his compensation for the two hours he spent autographing baseball cards of himself one day last summer. He signed 2,000 cards and was paid $1 for each signature. That’s a nice payday for anyone, especially a 17-year-old high school junior who is […]
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Meet the SkiSibs: The sister/brother combo conquering Florida one triathlon at a time

SAFETY HARBOR, Florida – Edelweiss Szymanski turns 10 on a Friday in December. She will celebrate the milestone by running a 5-kilometer race in Daytona Beach. The next day, she’s scheduled to compete in a triathlon. No pizza party. No theme park. How many 10-year-olds want to run three miles on their birthday, then swim, […]
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Chickens, horses and ed choice scholarships combine for an ideal home education setting

This is what home education looks like to Vivian McCoy: Feeding horses in the morning. Mucking stalls, too. Doing the same in the late afternoon, plus whatever else needs to be done at the horse farm where she works part-time. In between, Vivian, who is in the ninth grade, and her sister, Genevieve, second grade, […]
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