Charter schools. The Florida Senate may be warming to the House’s Schools of Hope plan, but it has its own designs on how to structure it. redefinED. News Service of Florida. Hinting at a possible compromise, Senate budget chief Jack Latvala likens a deal on the charter school proposal to[Read More…]
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Endgame becoming clearer for Florida school choice legislation
The fate of two pieces of legislation – one increasing access to dual enrollment classes for private school students, and one overhauling the rules governing high school sports and other extracurricular activities – looked uncertain going into the penultimate week of Florida’s legislative session. The dual enrollment bill had gotten[Read More…]
Republican offers to serve as ‘bridge’ to teachers union on FL school choice suit
Citing concern for low-income children whose school choice scholarships are threatened by a recently filed lawsuit, a key Republican legislator is offering to play the role of peacemaker with the Florida teachers union. In a letter to Florida Education Association President Andy Ford, which was obtained and reported by the Tampa Bay Times/Miami Herald[Read More…]
Parent trigger bill goes down to defeat in Florida Senate
Parent trigger history repeated itself in Florida’s Senate today. After deadlocking last year on a plan to let parents vote to take over struggling public schools, the Senate was offered a milder approach this year that put the parent trigger finger in the hands of the elected School Board in[Read More…]
Drama mounts as Florida parent trigger heads to Senate floor
Florida’s parent trigger bill is headed to the Senate floor after another predictable party-line committee vote. But odds are rising that this year’s model will bring as much last-minute drama as its predecessor did last year, when several Republicans broke rank to kill the measure. In the Senate Appropriations Committee[Read More…]