Category: Rising Stars
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Jaclyn is a go-getter, a mentor, and now a high school graduate
FORT MYERS – Tabitha Moore tells a story of the time she woke up at 3 a.m. to get a drink of water and was startled to find her daughter, Jaclyn Williams, doing math homework. That’s followed by stories of waking in the morning to begin her day and finding Jaclyn doing math homework. What […]
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Giana takes mighty steps with the help of a Florida ed choice scholarship
ESTERO – Giana Ferreri stood in her school’s atrium, which was filled with students, teachers, parents, and three members of the Naples business community, whom she hoped to impress enough to receive some seed money for her newly launched clothing line for petite girls. Giana was nervous. “I don’t like speaking in front of people,” […]
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All Gabby wanted was to graduate this May; being valedictorian was a plus
BRADENTON – The valedictorian sash is typically gold, symbolizing high achievement and excellence. Gabrielle Ford slipped it over her shoulders when she tried on her graduation gown at school a month before the event. She called the moment “surreal.” “I still feel like, ‘What am I doing?’” she said. What she is doing is graduating […]
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Rashad Walker has a crafty way to cure boredom
Rashad Walker’s big idea was born last September in room 429 of the children’s ward of Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola hospital. Rashad, confined to a bed for three weeks after surgery to repair his knock knees, was bored. “Insanely bored,” said his mom, Kiteka “Tiki” Walker. There are only so many books you can read, […]
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Meet the 32-million-year-old skull that transformed a PEP student into a paleontologist
EAST BRADENTON – The skull lay buried in a dry riverbed in northern Nebraska, undisturbed for millions of years until Amelia Hemmer walked by and noticed what she thought was an eye socket. It was hard to tell at first glance. The bleached bone blended in with the dirt. But centuries of erosion uncovered just […]
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Baseball is in his blood, and so is serving those less fortunate in his community
TALLAHASSEE, Florida – Javier Santana is the cook, so he doesn’t interact with the diners at the local Ronald McDonald House Charities. But every so often he pokes his head out of the kitchen to see who’s enjoying the pork chops or steak or pasta or whatever he whipped up for the evening meal. Did […]
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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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From Snowed in to Sunny Side: Joseph's journey to self-enrichment
TITUSVILLE, Florida – Coach Mustard did it. Not the deed that formed the plot of the Temple Christian School’s production of “Get a Clue.” That might have been Scarlett Starr. Or not. The play is a mystery. On the surface, Coach Mustard helped solve the mystery. But there was something else going on with Coach, and it […]
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Poetry in motion: The tale of one homeschool family using the PEP scholarship
TAMPA – The poem is a father’s message to his son, that everything they do together will be a memory someday. I’m going to love and hold you until you’re grown for in a blink you'll be on your own. Barbara Hamilton wrote the poem for her son, Ronald, when he was in the seventh […]
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The sky is the limit: How an ed choice scholarship turned Aaliyah into a straight-A student
DeLAND, Florida – A black sweater, white shirt, and a red tie lay on Aaliyah Tape’s bed when she returned home from a summer vacation spent with family. She knew what they were: a private school uniform. “Oh, Lord,” she thought. It was a message from Aaliyah’s grandmother, Cat Gracia, that would drastically change Aaliyah’s […]
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