Palm Beach County: Charter Schools Win Tax Fight
In 2018, voters in Palm Beach County, Florida, were asked to decide on a referendum to raise property taxes for the “operational needs of district...
Category : Florida
School Funding Since 2008: $600 Billion LOST!
The Education Law Center has developed an excellent presentation on the shortchanging of public education in the years since 20008. The great majority of states...
Florida Editorial: Republicans Have Betrayed the Nation
The Sun-Sentinel in South Florida wrote a scathing editorial about the Senate Republicans who failed to convict Trump of inciting an insurrection that endangered the...
Florida Alert! Save Public Schools from Privatizers!
SB 48 Will Be Heard at 3:30 p.m. on 2/17/21 in the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education Your Voice is Needed!What you can do . . .1) Make calls...
Florida: Stop the Mega-Voucher Bill!
The Constitution of the state of Florida bans the transfer of public funds to religious schools or any religious institution. The ban is unequivocal. It...
Peter Greene: Republicans in Florida Seek to Gut Public Schools Entirely
Peter Greene here disentangles the latest move to expand vouchers in Florida and the latest attempt to demolish public schools in a state where 80...
Florida: Leader of Closed Charter School Indicted for Embezzlement
The leader of Paramount Charter School in Broward County, now closed, was indicted for theft of federal funds. The school opened in 2015, promising to...
Florida: Voucher Schools Still Firing Gay Teachers
Last year, the Orlando Sentinel reviewed the websites of the state’s voucher schools and discovered that scores of them publicly admitted that they do not...
Rebekah Ray: Florida Is the Worst Place to Be a Teacher
Rebekah Ray responded to another Florida teacher who complained the changes by the State Legislature has destroyed the promises made to him when he became...
Florida: Charter School in Fort Myers Closes Down
Some charter schools are like day lilies–they open, they close. Charter advocates say that their instability is a feature, not a bug. They decry the...