Voucher backer donates big bucks to charter school serving low-income students

By at 8 February, 2010, 1:23 pm

John Kirtley, perhaps best known as one of Florida's biggest school voucher proponents , has turned his attention to RCMA Wimauma Academy , which serves some of Hillsborough County's poorest farm children. Kirtley has donated $100,000 to the charter school's $1.6 million capital campaign, an amount matched by the Walton Family Foundation . Kirtley also offered to help the Redlands Christian Migrant Association connect with the many groups he works with to seek

additional support. "This school is a perfect example of how the distinctions of 'public' and 'private' are increasingly meaningless,” Kirtley said in a news release . “Just as in our tax credit scholarship program, here you have a nonprofit organization providing a customized education that low-income parents freely choose as the best for their children." *

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