Bill mandating financial-literacy class for students advances

2018 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Curriculum, In the News, Legislation, Standards

A years-long battle in the Legislature to pass a bill requiring high school students take a course teaching them how to manage money is back again.  Sen. Dorothy Hukill‘s bill, though, had a small victory on Wednesday.  SB 88 advanced the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on pre-K-12 Education, leaving one more committee stop before it can…

Hope Scholarship plan draws debate

2018 Legislative Session, Accountability, Advocacy, Health, In the News, Legal News, Legislation, School Choice, School Governance, Voucher

Florida House members began moving forward Wednesday with a controversial proposal that would allow public-school students to receive voucher-like scholarships to attend private schools if they have been bullied, harassed or subject to violence.  The bill (HB 1), approved by the House Pre-K-12 Innovation Subcommittee, is a priority of House Speaker Richard Corcoran, a major…