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Tadpoles, robots, and sewing machines all part of this family's hybrid-homeschool experience
Jun 11, 2025 • By Roger Mooney

Student Spotlights, Beyond the Scholarship, Home Education, Homeschool, Personalized Education Program, Step Up For Students
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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Student Spotlights, Beyond the Scholarship, Home Education, Homeschool, Hybrid Learning, Personalized Education Program, School Choice, Step Up For Students
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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Student Spotlights, Beyond the Scholarship, Florida Tax Credit Scholarship, Home Education, Personalized Education Program, School Choice, Step Up For Students
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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Lofty dreams and a PEP scholarship power 12-year-old pilot in training
MELBOURNE – When it comes to her son’s education, Denice Santos always thinks about the big picture. “What can we do to merge his goals?” she said. “Education, and then, of course, becoming a pilot.” Her son, William, 12, has wanted to fly airplanes for half his life. He took control of a plane for […]
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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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Hybrid Learning, Beyond the Scholarship, Family Empowerment Scholarship for Students with Unique Abilities, Homeschool, Personalized Education Program, Step Up For Students, Student Spotlights
Tadpoles, robots, and sewing machines all part of this family's hybrid-homeschool experience
Seppie Furlano gets dirty at school. It happens. He’s 8, he’s a boy, and one day a week, his classroom is a mixture of trees, shrubs, dirt, and mud. And there’s a creek. Seppie and his classmates, who include his 10-year-old sister, Luciana, climb trees, discover tadpoles, and build small boats out of twigs and […]
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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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Yaya's got this, thanks to the help of a PEP scholarship
DELTONA, Florida – Of all the skills Yaeli “Yaya” Santos could have picked to earn a grade in that portion of her eighth-grade physical education class, standing on her head seemed the easiest. Understand this: Yaya does not claim to be athletic in the least, but she had to master a skill, and “How hard […]
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At 19, Gabriel is an ordained minister, motivational speaker, author, and now an education choice advocate
Gabriel Lynch III is new to his role as an education choice advocate. Though in essence, he’s been doing it nearly all his life. He’s a product of both private and homeschooled education. He’s attended brick-and-mortar schools and studied virtually. Along the way, Gabriel, 19, has become an ordained minister, a motivational speaker, an accomplished […]
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