Jade Hardwick sat in the back of a limousine last month for the first time in her 9-year-old life. For performing well on the 2013 Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test, Jade and some of her classmates at Tiger Academy Charter School went on a plush limo ride across Jacksonville. The school’s principal paid and arranged for the top-performing students to experience the ride. In this year’s results, the YMCA charter school on the city’s Northwest side dramatically increased the percentage of third-grade students...
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