More Non-accountability for voucher programs

Voucher operation secretive about grants


OCALA -- An officer of a bankrupt correspondence school won state Department of Education approval to collect "a few hundred thousand dollars" in corporate tax credit voucher money, despite failing to meet the department's own published rules.

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Robert Metty, a department administrator who formerly ran the Choice Office's scholarships programs, said the law governing the tax voucher program gives Horne no authority to stop participation merely because an SFO is uncooperative, even one with a dubious past.

"That's not in the law," Metty said.

Indeed, the law makes it virtually impossible for the state to know with certainty almost anything about the corporate voucher money. Corporations tell the Department of Revenue how much they have donated to scholarship funding organizations so they can take a dollar-for-dollar tax credit, but corporations are not required to disclose which SFOs got the money.


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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/auto/epaper/editions/sunday/news_f384736034bfa1160065.html

Sometimes I truly wonder why my husband and myself moved here :(