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Meet the Brandt sisters and the story behind their mom's tattoo
EAGLE LAKE, Florida – The tattoo on Elysia Camp’s right bicep catches your eye. It’s hexagons, lines, letters – a chemical compound, though this one includes four flowers. Those seeing it for the first time offer a guess. Caffeine? Adrenaline? No, but nice tries, especially since Elysia was a single mother of three girls and […]
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A year after her open-heart surgery, Stella is strong, vivacious, and a straight-A student
Stella Vallagi is 6, and she loves her French bulldog, Cookie. Her favorite color is orange, and her favorite meal is chicken francese. She loves to color, and paint, and collect shells at the beach. She can dance, too – ballet, jazz, tap. She wears bows in her hair and takes martial arts. If you […]
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Through their books, Max and Gavin want to empower young readers to believe in themselves
Maxwell “Max” Johnson knows something about you. Maybe you know it, too. Maybe not. Either way, Max wants you to know this: You are smart. He’s so sure you are that he wrote a book about it. Published last December, “Let Me Help You … BE SMART: A Kid’s Guide to Confidence, Focus, and Smart […]
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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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Here's the pitch: How a Florida educational choice scholarship helped Cam earn a baseball scholarship
Cameron “Cam” Morgan was 4 when he ran around the living room, touching imaginary bases before stepping on an imaginary home plate. At 5, he could recite baseball statistics, especially those of his favorite players on his favorite team – the Baltimore Orioles. Cartoons and Nickelodeon? Nope. ESPN’s SportsCenter and the MLB Network. Coached by […]
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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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Noah has big goals, and a Florida Ed Choice scholarship is helping him reach them
TRINITY, Florida – Noah Allen was in middle school when he began to teach himself Latin. College-level Latin. He did that for two years. He also taught himself Japanese. And Korean. “It’s his superpower,” Noah’s mom, Josie, said. “He loves to learn.” Noah, 16, is inherently curious. Theater, art, and music are a few areas […]
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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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