{"id":2052,"date":"2014-03-20T19:13:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T23:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:05:46","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:05:46","slug":"can-i-have-two-more-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"Can I have two more wishes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes wishes do come true, I suppose. Senate abandons plans to expand school vouchers this year <\/a><\/p>\n

In a row over testing for private school voucher students, Florida Senate President Don Gaetz said Thursday that chamber was done considering a top House priority to expand the state’s voucher program this year.<\/p>\n

House Speaker Will Weatherford has wanted a “massive expansion” in Florida’s Tax-Credit Scholarship Program for low-income kids. But Gaetz and other senators had wanted more accountability for the students using the vouchers to atend private, mostly religious schools.<\/p>\n

But Thursday, Sen. Bill Galvano, R-Bradenton, asked that his bill expanding the program be removed from further consideration — a move that makes it highly unlikely the chamber will take it back up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes wishes do come true, I suppose. Senate abandons plans to expand school vouchers this year In a row over testing for private school voucher students, Florida Senate President Don Gaetz said Thursday that chamber was done considering a top … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-x6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2038,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2038","url_meta":{"origin":2052,"position":0},"title":"Accountability in voucher schools","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Companion bills in the state legislature are attempting to expand a school voucher program. The House bill recently got a green light from one of its committee stops, but news accounts point out that the House version may not quite match the version in the Senate. The House bill gives\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 10 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 10 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2038#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2068,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2068","url_meta":{"origin":2052,"position":1},"title":"Back from the dead?","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 26, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Will the voucher expansion effort come back to life? From the Gradebook blog: Controversial voucher bill gets a second chance in the Florida Legislature Many observers thought the proposed expansion of the school voucher program was off the table after Sen. 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