Fruth executives are active in various anti-drug coalitions and help administer the Bridge of
Hope Scholarship Fund, which is dedicated to helping train and educate former addicts to prepare them for job opportunities.
"But that has all changed because of the
HOPE scholarship."
One of those programs is the
Hope Scholarship, which would give vouchers to students who have been "bullied, harassed, or hazed." As Nartowicz noted in a letter urging Scott to veto the bill, pushing the victims of bullying to leave their public schools--which must provide state-mandated, anti-bullying protections --to attend private schools that don't have the same protections could mean bullied students "find themselves bullied again, this time with no legal remedy."
His "
Hope Scholarship Program" would make public K-12 students who are victims of one of 10 types of incidents--from bullying to sexual assault--eligible for a $7,000 private school voucher or $750 to cover transportation to another public school.
Dubbed the "
Hope Scholarship Program," the bill would "authorize certain persons to elect to direct certain state sales and use tax revenue to be transferred to a nonprofit scholarship funding organization," according to the (https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/01172) Florida Senate .
It was modeled on Georgia's merit-based
HOPE scholarship, which a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial once called "the kind of thing you look at half in amazement and half in anger, and wonder why your own bonehead state didn't think of it."
She has been a recipient of the Tennessee
HOPE scholarship since 2013 and has made the Dean's List since 2014.
Thus, while the
HOPE scholarship appears to have improved access of Pell recipients even at the more selective schools, it has consequently induced greater enrollment increases at less selective institutions.
In 2009, Congress replaced the
Hope Scholarship Tax Credit with the American Opportunity Tax Credit (AOTC).
Calderaro received the Georgia
HOPE Scholarship to attend the University of Georgia where he earned a B.B.A.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee's College of Business Administration with a Bachelors degree in Finance, he was part of the Financial Management Association and a
HOPE Scholarship recipient for his academic successes.