By Scott Maxwell
Columnist
Orlando Sentinel
Once again, Orlando Sentinel reporters peered behind the curtains of Florida’s unchecked voucher-school system to see how $1 billion worth of public money is being used.
And once again, what they found was ugly.
Their reporting uncovered more than 80 schools with blatant discrimination policies that deny admission to gay children, expel or discipline students who reveal they’re gay and sometimes refuse to educate children of LGBT parents.
These schools want public money. But they don’t want to serve all of the public.
One school told a mother — a firefighter married to U.S. Air Force veteran — that her children were unfit to be educated there simply because the couple was two women.
The two women served their country and community. But the school — which received $371,000 in state scholarship money last year — told the family to get an education elsewhere.
We’ll talk more about these discrimination policies in a moment — and about the politicians and bureaucrats who defend them.