Families of children who have been bullied or harassed in a Florida public school soon will have access to state scholarships to attend private schools instead. But first, the State Board of Education must set the rules for how the controversial “Hope Scholarship” program will operate. The Department of Education has issued a draft proposal in advance of a planned June 6 public workshop. Unlike the new law, which took up 17 pages of HB 7055, the rule runs just one page.
