Ignore the Vultures: Let Us Get to Work Saving Our Schools.
While the privatization vultures are circling, dreaming of ways to funnel Covid recovery funds towards their pet projects…
Imagining the “Wild West of Unregulated, Unaccountable Voucher Schools” in Cyberspace
In the spirit of never letting a good crisis go to waste, vultures are circling our public schools…
Vultures are Circling Over Our Brick and Mortar Schools
As we recently wrote, free-market economist Milton Friedman once said “Only a crisis — actual or perceived —…
No one wants to go back… to the status quo
A few weeks ago, in the midst of the COVID pandemic, a friend shared this meme: Then, this…
Is the Plan to Replace Public Schools with FLVS? Asking for a Friend.
“You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity…
Bending the Rules: How the FL Senate Passed Voucher Expansion
On the last regular day of session, 3/13/2020, after an informal recess, with a quorum of just 34…
$1.1 Billion is A Lot of Money and 170,000 is A Lot of Students
On Wednesday evening, the Florida Senate took up HB7067, this year’s voucher expansion bill which seeks to quadruple…
“For Choice to be Valuable, It Has to be Meaningful, Right?”
Today, the Florida House will vote on HB7067, this year’s voucher expansion bill, which aims to quadruple the current…
Actually, Chair Sullivan, It IS “an And/Or”
As we wrote previously, HB7067 (and its companion SB1220), by quadrupling the current annual enrollment growth rate and placing…
SLOW DOWN: Stop the Never-Ending Voucher Expansion
Originally heralded as the “Year of the Teacher” by Governor DeSantis, in the final days of the Legislative…
CALL TO ACTION: SB1688 and SB1220
Heads up Florida! Next Tuesday’s Senate Education Appropriations subcommittee meeting (2/25/20) will be interesting. The agenda includes one…
CALL TO ACTION: SB1498, Turnaround, School Grades and Privatization
The Senate Education Committee is scheduled to meet on Monday, February 17th (yes, that is Presidents Day). They…
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