Florida School Boards Association joins chorus seeking HB 7069 veto

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Florida has two groups advocating on behalf of school boards, and they are not always asking for the same things.  They disagreed on vouchers — in fact, the Florida Coalition of School Board members split from the larger, more established Florida School Boards Association over that issue — and now they disagree over the 278-page HB…

Florida school boards: Education bill ‘substantially flawed,’ ‘unworthy’ of Scott’s approval

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Add the Florida School Boards Association to the growing list of groups calling for a veto of HB 7069, the mammoth $419 million K-12 public schools bill Republican lawmakers unveiled and passed in the final days of their annual session.  In a letter to Gov. Rick Scott on Tuesday, the FSBA — which represents 64…