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	Podcast:		Capital Report
	Episode:		Florida Community Schools Are A Rare Bipartisan Provision In Broad Education Bill
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:03:28
	Publish Date:		2019-04-26 08:53:31
	Description:		A large number of lawmakers support at least one provision of the controversial Senate bill 7070 , which passed the Florida Senate Thursday on a party-line vote. It awaits a vote by the House. The measure would establish a new K-12 voucher program, the “Family Empowerment Scholarship," while raising the income eligibility limit to include some middle-income families. While the bill's progress has been powered by the Legislature's Republican majorities, it has a bipartisan sweetener: a provision supporting Florida's community partnership schools , which have impressed both sides of the aisle. There are 17 community partnership schools statewide, a collaboration of the Children's Home Society and the University of Central Florida. The omnibus SB 7070 includes a provision that would fund the planning and implementation of more such schools. As it happened, the bill came up as three students from the first community school in Florida were working as pages in the chamber. Senator David
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