Education Meetings in Tallahassee – January 20 – 24, 2025
Monday, January 20th is the federal holiday honoring the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr….
Florida Has The Capacity, But Not The Commitment, To Adequately Fund Its Public Schools
A Look at the 2024-25 K-12 Budget In January, a former staff member for Governor Rick Scott bragged…
Legislative Session Starts Next Week in Florida
Florida’s 2024 Legislative Session begins next week, on January 9th, and is scheduled to last 60 days. What…
As Always, Budgets Reflect Priorities. For Florida’s Public Schools, the 2023-24 Budget Is NOT Worth Celebrating.
Budgets reflect priorities and Florida’s 2023-24 Budget does not prioritize its K-12 public schools. This is no surprise….
Next Week Won’t Be Much Better – Messing With The FEFP
Culture Wars, Academic Freedom in Higher Ed, Universal ESA Vouchers and attacking Teachers Unions – there was a…
Intellectually Bankrupt: Education Funding in Florida and the Impacts of HB1/SB202
The Florida Policy Institute (FPI) is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profit organization dedicated to advancing policies and budgets…
What Remains When You Eliminate Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?
I knew he was trouble when Christopher Rufo wrote, in March 2021, that diversity, equity and inclusion were euphemisms…
Hidden Voucher Expansion is Defunding Florida’s Public Schools – Report
“This enormous increase in the flow of public dollars to fund private education has happened so quickly that…
Destroying Equity and Other Problems With HB51
On 4/15/21, during the House Education and Employment Committee meeting, PreK-12 Appropriations Chair Randy Fine (R-Brevard) confessed that he…
Celebrations to Distract from Budget Realities – a Campaign Strategy
While we were preparing to publish this, Governor DeSantis signed HB7067 during a ceremony at Cristo Rey Salesian…
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…
Vibrant Communities Need Quality Public Schools
Here is the full text of a Letter to the Editor of the Florida Keys Free Press, written…
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