Comments on: Florida Bright Futures Scholarships Could Be Harder To Get

By: SW

SW — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 04:06:11 +0000

>Either the kids pass or not and the teachers need to be held accountable for passing students who do not make the grades.

Great idea, but heaven knows we are not allowed to hold teachers accountable for anything.

By: confused

confused — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 02:58:53 +0000

Would students who have Bright Futures already and are in college, would they still get it if they maintain their 3.0 or 2.5 average? Or would they have to take the SAT again, which doesn’t make sense though. But are those who have it already, do they have to worry about the up coming changes?

By: Terri Sanders

Terri Sanders — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:37:15 +0000

Just wanted to say my son got a 75% schlorship from bright futures and went to UWF on it.There are some students who actually do get money from Bright futures,but the grades have to be there.As far as the SAT scores go THAT program sucks…I know a student who made A honor role all through high school but did not get a good enough SAT score so no schlorships for her.She made the cut during class but was denied because of a low SAT score.I say do away with the SAT scores.Either the kids pass or not and the teachers need to be held accountable for passing students who do not make the grades.

By: one more irritated parent/taxpayer

one more irritated parent/taxpayer — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:56:38 +0000

Government got us to vote in favor on the lottery system telling us how it would pump millions annually into education. Funny how that promise has been missleading from the start. In actuality, the lottery dollars have in large part been ‘replacement dollars”. Educational funding was simply rreplaced by the money from the Florida lottery, while the original funds went to ….who knows where! Florida will be able to rival Alabama with their broken promises for all of those parents who participated in the prepaid college fund. Alabamians will be lucky to get 2 years of college taken care of with the 4 years worth of money they put into the program!

By: NOTE

NOTE — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:40:26 +0000

More broken promises. Thanks, government.

By: SW

SW — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:10:19 +0000

I bet if they had managed the lottery money better, this wouldn’t even be an issue.

By: escambiamom

escambiamom — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:08:03 +0000

Thanks for this article. Important information for parents!

By: Oversight

Oversight — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:00:45 +0000

The program should be renamed the “Florida Dimming Futures Scholarship Program” because by increasing test score criteria there will be more who will not be able to qualify, which in turn are probably the ones who most need the assistance to attend college anyway. And what caused this to occur? I believe the legislature did this to itself by raising state college and university tuition over 20% during the last two years. What did the state think was going to happen after raising cost?