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Florida AG: Vouchers for Tampa Islamic schools ‘undermines our national security’

The entire Florida Cabinet wants to stop allowing taxpayer-funded scholarships for the schools. That’s up to the Department of Education.

Attorney General James Uthmeier, Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia, and Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, all Republicans and allies of the governor, are wondering whether Florida’s universal school voucher system allowing Floridians to attend certain private schools at discounted rates can be properly extended to the Hifz Academy and Bayaan Academy, Islamic schools in Tampa now accepting these scholarships.

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