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NC: Carolina Curious: How many private schools receiving Opportunity Scholarships serve students with disabilities?

by kids1stadvocac | Mar 4, 2025 | State Archive

WFDD Last year, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to significantly increase funding for private school vouchers, also known as Opportunity Scholarships. The state has spent nearly $383 million on these vouchers in this academic year alone. Listener Walter...

FL: Private schools must provide parents special education offerings in writing, lawmakers argue

by kids1stadvocac | Feb 11, 2025 | State Archive

Florida Phoenix Parents of children with special education accommodations deserve more transparency when exercising school choice, Democratic lawmakers argue. Under existing law, private schools receiving school choice funding from the state are not required to...

Trump wants to shake up education. What that could mean for a charter school started by a GOP senator’s wife

by kids1stadvocac | Feb 11, 2025 | Federal Archive

The hechinger Report Screening revealed that Brooke had dyslexia — a common learning disability stemming from neurological differences that make it difficult to identify sounds and associate them with letters and words. When her private school told the Simmons family...

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