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Timeflyer

(2,647 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:07 AM Mar 2023

Fight back!--contact legislators at myfloridahouse.gov and flsenate.gov

Florida 2023 Spring legislative session—contact legislators and fight back! Email, phone and write letters, daily if you can. To hell with their supermajority

Bills to oppose re: Education

House Bill 1 / Senate Bill 202 “School Choice”—deceptive name. Implementation will devastate public school district budgets by diverting public taxpayer dollars to fund private schools and homeschooling. Could end up diverting $4 billion dollars from Florida public school funding in the first year alone (Florida Policy Institute—check out their website for more info on this and other bills).
Ultimate goal—ruin public schools, privatize education in Florida—no good can come from defunding public schools. Supporters want to make money off the backs of our children. Any family, no matter how wealthy, can get up to $8,000 a year to send their child to any school or just homeschool. Fiscally irresponsible, weakens separation of church and state.
Senate Bill 202 adds a nasty little twist—deregulation of public schools.

House Bill 999 / Senate Bill 266—Attack on higher education. Seeks to control viewpoint and content throughout all academic activity in the entire Florida higher education system. Outlaws spending any money to fund “diversity, equity, and inclusion.”

Bills to oppose re: Women’s Healthcare

House Bill 7 / Senate Bill 300—Six week abortion ban. Just no. You know why.

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Fight back!--contact legislators at myfloridahouse.gov and flsenate.gov (Original Post) Timeflyer Mar 2023 OP
Thank you for this information. Biophilic Mar 2023 #1
This is the fight of our lives. jimfields33 Mar 2023 #2
And in desantis' State of the State address yesterday... rubbersole Mar 2023 #3
The teachers were all on board for DeSatan because he Phoenix61 Mar 2023 #4

jimfields33

(18,974 posts)
2. This is the fight of our lives.
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:13 AM
Mar 2023

I didn’t know Florida had supermajority in both state houses. Our Democratic group in lake county sent out phone numbers to call. I’m going to do this today. May help.

rubbersole

(8,530 posts)
3. And in desantis' State of the State address yesterday...
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:18 AM
Mar 2023

..."We're just getting started!" Fucking scary. This is think-tank driven authoritarian bullshit. Right in front of us. "We're in charge and what are you going to do about it?"

Phoenix61

(17,653 posts)
4. The teachers were all on board for DeSatan because he
Wed Mar 8, 2023, 09:19 AM
Mar 2023

threw them a couple of bucks. Now they didn’t have their classroom libraries and pretty soon they won’t have a classroom at all.

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