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…
Is HB7079 the Fast Track to Privatization?
HB7079 will dramatically disrupt the current high school grade calculation and direct more schools, labeled as failing by…
Heroes, like Miss K, Built Our Schools
In case you missed it, published in the Key West Citizen on Saturday, January 18, 2020: “In Florida,…
Redefining Equity
Today (12/10/19), the House Education Committee heard a presentation entitled “Why School Choice Matters,” by Florida Department of Education’s…
Hiding in Implementing Bills: Massive Voucher Expansion.
While everyone is abuzz about minimum teacher salaries and another teacher bonus plan, Governor DeSantis is planning a…
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