Malka Kownat-Rhodes: School choice legislation helps working-class families, too
Paying for our sons’ schooling isn’t easy, but it’s so very important to us.
One of the hottest topics of debate in the Florida Legislative Session was the school choice legislation. For all the back and forth leading up to the passage of
SB 48/HB 7045, legislators deserve our thanks for including a key group the proposal will affect: working-class families like mine, who desire a particular kind of education that their children simply can’t get in public schools. We now look to the governor to finalize this progress by signing the measure into law.
Governor DeSantis got
everything he asked the state legislature for in his state of the state speech. Creation of a Resiliency Task Force. Check. Expanded school choice. Check. Bonuses for teachers and first responders. Check. COVID-19 liability protections for businesses and organizations. Check. Enhanced election integrity standards. Check. Ban on vaccine passports and limitations on emergency declarations by governments at all levels. Check. “Anti-riot” legislation. Check. Online sales tax collection by out-of-state businesses (which the governor wanted as a way to not disadvantage local businesses online). Check. Regulations on big tech firms who censor political speech. Check. To say it was a successful session from the governor’s perspective is an understatement. We’ve seen a vast difference in the three sessions under the DeSantis administration as compared to his predecessor Rick Scott. Despite Republicans holding control of the state government for
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