LEG ALERT: Stop 7055, Protect Florida Public Schools. Vote is Tommorow!

Mon, 02/26/2018 - 5:21pm

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Tomorrow, February 27th, the massive attack on our states students, teachers, and public schools is up for a vote in its last Senate committee stop.

Last week, the language that would threaten the rights of our teachers to have a voice on the job was removed from the bill. BUT DON'T BE FOOLED, they will try to add union decertification language back to HB 7055, so we must keep up the pressure.

Your calls have flooded the Capitol switchboards, and we must keep them coming during these critical last two weeks of legislative session if we want to defeat this attempt to defund public schools.

Call (855) 235-2469 and enter your zip code NOW to be connected with your state Senator. Leave them with the message that they need to stand up for our public schools, our students, and our teachers by voting NO on HB 7055.

 

 

 

At nearly 200 pages, this massive bill makes almost 60 changes to Florida's education laws. Many of these changes will divert hundreds of millions of tax dollars to private, for-profit schools, reduces accountability for student performance, and hurts programs for struggling students.

HB 7055 also creates a process that deceptively claims to help victims of bullying in our schools. Rather than focusing on programs that directly combat the problem of bullying in Florida schools, HB 7055 uses this issue as another means to please their donors and expand the unaccountable for-profit private school industry in our state.

Call (855) 235-2469 NOW and leave your state Senator with a message to vote NO on HB 7055. This bill would spell disaster for the future of public education in our state. We need the Florida Senate to say NO to this massive scheme to bully our students, our schools, and our teachers.

In solidarity,

Ted Parsons

Palm Beach–Treasure Coast

Florida AFL-CIO Field Representative

Cell: 561-324-6636

tparsons@flaflcio.org

TNG-CWA 32035