"What Democrats in New York have done to change the election law to try and win elections before a single vote is cast is truly remarkable," wrote Lawler. You can read the full report from CBS News right here. In New Hampshire, the poll shows Trump leading with 44% to Haley's 29%." The latest CBS News poll shows Haley is gaining on Trump in New Hampshire, but the former president still has a big lead in Iowa. "Haley has been touting her rise in the polls, telling voters in New Hampshire that she's "surging" against Trump. "The former South Carolina governor has been gaining ground in recent polls, and a top Trump adviser tells CBS News one internal prediction is Haley might be a close third in Iowa to DeSantis, or that she could even come in second," CBS reported. The internal debate is reportedly coming from polling reports, despite the fact that Trump has repeatedly said in public that her positive polls are fake. Politico first reported that Trump allies are working to quash the possibility of a Trump-Haley ticket."ĪLSO READ: A neuroscientist’s guide to surviving Christmas with Trump-loving relatives "The feedback from the MAGA crowd regarding putting Haley on the ticket if Trump wins the GOP nomination has been overwhelmingly negative, according to these GOP sources. "Former President Donald Trump has been asking allies and advisers for their thoughts about Nikki Haley as a potential vice presidential candidate, two sources familiar with the conversations tell CBS News," the outlet wrote in a report on Friday. Read the entire Orlando Sentinel expose on Florida's Florida Tax Credit Scholarship and Step Up for Students, which administers most of the scholarships. "Whining that the media ignored swell schools to focus on problematic ones is like whining that the media ignore planes that fly safely to report on ones that crash."Īfter touring a voucher school with Secretary DeVos, President Trump said he wanted to expand the "great success" of Florida's program nationwide. They wouldn’t attack the journalists who discovered them," Maxwell noted. "If voucher supporters actually cared about the safety and education of these children, they wouldn’t make excuses for all the problems exposed here. Maxwell, who writes the Sentinel's "Taking Names" column, was openly disgusted by the response to the series by voucher supports. And even after Vidal was charged with felony lewd or lascivious molestation, prompting the state to pull scholarships from the second school, it approved yet another school this year with ties to Vidal." "But the police investigation didn’t stop Vidal, 41, from winning approval from the Florida Department of Education to open a new private school in Palm Bay and collect nearly $200,000 in state-backed scholarships. "After Palm Bay Police began investigating principal Samuel Vidal Jr., who was accused last year of lifting the shirt of a 15-year-old student and putting his mouth on her breast, Vidal shut down his private Christian school," the Sentinel found. The Sentinal discovered an alarming lack of oversight. Many of those schools, which are subject to little state oversight, are heavily reliant on the state scholarship programs to keep their doors open," the Sentinel found. "The number of children using the scholarship programs has tripled in the past decade to 140,000 students at nearly 2,000 private schools. In March, DeVos joined President Donald Trump in touring a voucher school. Reporters Beth Kassab, Leslie Postal and Annie Martin reported that "private schools in Florida will collect nearly $1 billion in state-backed scholarships this year through a system so weakly regulated that some schools hire teachers without college degrees, hold classes in aging strip malls and falsify fire-safety and health records."Įducation Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to visit any public schools during an August trip to Florida. And the world needs more real journalists." "This little-regulated system needs an overhaul. "That is what real journalism looks like - a team of journalists doing shoe-leather reporting, conducting the kind of inspections, investigations and interviews that even the state’s education officials don’t," Sentinel columnist Scott Maxwell explained. The newspapers three-part, Schools Without Rules expose on the state's nearly $1 billion tax credit scholarship program. The Orlando Sentinel is being praised for a months long investigation on Florida's school voucher program, inspecting fifty percent more schools than state education officials inspected in all of last year.
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