Tag: Optima Foundation
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New disclosures only deepen mystery of Rep. Donalds’s wife’s charter school companies
By Will Bredderman
FloridaBulldog.org
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Naples), a leading candidate for governor, updated his personal financial disclosures in August following a Florida Bulldog story finding he had failed to fully report his wife’s stakes in companies that provide services to a charter school chain she co-founded. -
Firms belonging to wife of Rep. Donalds grabbed millions in charter school contracts
By Will Bredderman
FloridaBulldog.org
For years, Erika Donalds has used her perch atop the nonprofit Optima Foundation—not to mention her marriage to U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Naples), now a top contender for governor—to make herself a force in Florida’s charter school movement. But materials filed with Florida’s Auditor General show…
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