Welcome to the Coalition of McKay Scholarship Schools, an alliance of non-public schools that serve children with special needs.

BYLAWS

The Coalition of McKay Scholarship Schools, Inc.

5246 Centerville Rd

Tallahassee, FL 32309

Tel: (850) 893-2216

Fax (850) 893-2440

POSITION ON ACCOUNTABILITY

The Coalition of McKay Scholarship Schools has prepared the following position paper concerning its stand on the different issues which have been brought up in new legislation. This information will assist you in answering many of the questions posed by legislators and others who are concerned that private schools are operating in an accountable way to serve the students and to deal with fiscal issues of accountability. Private schools participating in the McKay Scholarship Program are very aware that accountability measures must be in place to protect the children in the program and to ensure that the schools are fiscally accountable. However, the McKay Scholarship Program is a choice program. Therefore, it is important that the differences within the private school sector which allow parents to have a variety of choices are maintained. Private schools are NOT public schools and operate on different principals and different standards. This position paper details our stand on the issues that have arisen that would take the autonomy away from private schools and undermine, if not destroy, this program. requirements on the private schools' ability to provide these options.