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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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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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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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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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