Tag: Ron Meyer
Arming teachers, changes for students, expected voucher challenge and more
Florida schools roundup: Teacher of the year, school security issues and more
Teacher of the year: Joy Prescott, a 4th-grade math teacher at Pemayetv Emahakv Charter School in Glades County, is named Florida teacher of the year. She wins $20,000 and will be the state’s Christa McAuliffe Ambassador for Education for the next year. The other finalists were Kyle Dencker, a computer[Read More…]
Judge grills both sides in Florida tax credit scholarship lawsuit
The lawsuit challenging Florida’s tax credit scholarship program hinges on a “complex” set of legal issues, a Leon County circuit court judge said Monday after hearing arguments in the case. Judge George Reynolds grilled lawyers on both sides over whether the groups behind the lawsuit have standing to challenge the[Read More…]
FL’s school choice scholarship program is far cry from a ‘moneymaker’
Florida Education Association Vice President Joanne McCall has an obvious motive to discredit the nonprofit that administers a scholarship program she is suing, but her recent claims about its spending practices are nonsensical. Since they also track a growing teacher union narrative suggesting misappropriation in the tax credit scholarship programfor low-income students, they’re[Read More…]
Special needs parents enter legal fray over Florida parental choice law
The parents of six special needs students announced Thursday that they are intervening to defend a new Florida parental choice program from a lawsuit by the statewide teachers union. At a press conference in Tallahassee, the parents said the state’s new Personal Learning Scholarship Accounts would help them get services[Read More…]
Rattling the constitutional cage
Ron Meyer is the longtime attorney for the Florida Education Association who has succeeded in getting Florida’s original school voucher program and an independent charter school authorizing panel thrown out in the courts. So when he threatens to sue two other voucher programs if the state moves forward with an[Read More…]