May 11, 2021
One of the first things
this law does is remove the March 1st Open Enrollment deadlines for schools with voluntary diversity plans.
What that means is simple. With immediate effect, parents or guardians who have students already enrolled into a voluntary diversity school district can open enroll into a new district for the 2021-2022 school year.
The new law stops school districts from using voluntary diversity plans as an excuse to deny open enrollment. Previously, transfer requests could be denied simply to maintain the diversity mix of a school.
Clearly school choice advocates are happy, while those opposed are concerned that money will leave a district because of it.
Leah Morales, an operations manager in New York City, is one of those people. She had just found out she was pregnant when the pandemic took a terrible toll on her company, by whom she was previously insured. “We were told they could no longer insure us, and had to cut all full-time employees’ salaries and hours more than half,” she says. “So here I was, newly pregnant and uninsured.” (And having just taken a pay-cut.)
Morales spent a month without insurance, eventually applying for Medicaid via New York State. What she didn’t realize, however, was that there are limited options in terms of clinics, hospitals and doctors who accept Medicaid.
By Joel Malkin
Apr 30, 2021
Parents have until midnight to sign up for a Florida Prepaid College Plan for their children. That s when Open Enrollment comes to a close for the year and it won t reopen until February.
The Prepaid College Plan lets you lock in today s tuition rates for children as young as infants, who will then be ready to go to college when they turn 18.
A spokeswoman says the state of Florida guarantees the plans and the investment can never be lost.
Plans start at $45 per month, which covers a 1-year Florida University Plan and covers 30 university credit hours.
By Joel Malkin
Apr 30, 2021
Parents have until midnight to sign up for a Florida Prepaid College Plan for their children. That s when Open Enrollment comes to a close for the year and it won t reopen until February.
The Prepaid College Plan lets you lock in today s tuition rates for children as young as infants, who will then be ready to go to college when they turn 18.
A spokeswoman says the state of Florida guarantees the plans and the investment can never be lost.
Plans start at $45 per month, which covers a 1-year Florida University Plan and covers 30 university credit hours.