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Testing Makes McKay Scholarships Accountable to Parents – a post from the redefinED Blog
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In Robyn Rennick’s post on Florida’s McKay Scholarships for Students With Disabilities last week, she argued that standardized testing measures are “inappropriate,” even “cruel,” for disabled children due to their diverse levels of achievement and in some cases immeasurable levels of progress. But [...]
McKay Scholarship Expansion – 504 Plans Can Get $ for Private School
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If your disabled child has a written school plan giving him or her accommodations (called a “504 Plan“), that plan can translate into a dollar amount, and you can use that money to pay for private school tuition. Governor Scott signed a new law expanding the McKay Scholarship program to cover [...]
BREAKING NEWS – FL Will Pay for Private PreK Therapies
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Yesterday Governor Crist signed into law what appears to be an extraordinary program for disabled prekindergarten children beginning with the 2012-13 school year. The details are not clear yet, but here’s the deal in brief.
If your disabled child will be 4 years old by September 1, 2012 and he or [...]
Are You an Extreme Chooser? (How Far Would You Go to Find the Right School?)
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Most parents are advocates of school choice -whether we identify ourselves that way or not. We would choose to send our children to the best school in our neighborhood over the one which was just simply around the corner, that is, if we could. Upper middle class parents routinely choose to buy [...]
