A private school in Brooksville should be barred from access to state school vouchers after its operator admitted it wasn’t educating students the state paid it to teach, an administrative judge recommended Wednesday.

The episode follows release of a state audit into a state budget strain caused by what lawmakers agree are lax accounting practices in the school choice program.

Little Wings of Prayer, a daycare and private school in Hernando County since 2018, is subject of an investigation opened in 2024 into a mass transfer of students (and their state-funded scholarships) from a separate school two hours away, according to administrative law Judge Robert Telfer III .

“It would be difficult for the undersigned to discern a more obvious and brazen fraudulent scheme than the one undert

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