Articles in Category: 'scholarship'

How Did the Bad Guys Get Their Hands on All-Republican Bright Futures?

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: July 1, 2011 3:55 AM

All of a sudden 177,000 Bright Futures scholarship families are getting hip to what Sen. Evelyn Lynn and the rest of the lugheads in the Legislature did to one of the most successful Republican initiatives in Florida history.

TAGS: Bright Futures, Evelyn Lynn, FAFSA, Florida State University, FSU, Maria Morris, News, Obamacare, Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, scholarship, University of Central Florida, University of Florida, Columns

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Bright Futures Downsize Wins Full Senate OK

By: By Kathleen Haughney The News Service of Florida | Posted: April 1, 2010 12:06 AM

THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 31, 2010.....Major changes to a popular scholarship program that pays for the majority of Florida's students to attend college easily won approval in the Florida Senate Wednesday.

TAGS: Al Lawson, Bright Futures, Dan Gelber, Evelyn Lynn, Jeremy Ring, News, SAT, scholarship, Politics

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The Big Bright Futures Lie

By: Nancy Smith | Posted: March 24, 2010 12:01 AM

Former Senate President Ken Pruitt had barely left the building before his Republican colleagues went to work trashing his legacy.

By the end of this session, the Bright Futures Scholarship program, one of the most popular legislative initiatives of the last several decades in Florida, will lie gasping for breath on the Senate floor.

What a sad and senseless story.

TAGS: Bright Futures, Evelyn Lynn, higher education, Ken Pruitt, News, scholarship, students, Columns

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