School Board Members Launch New Pro-School Choice Group
Escambia County school board
Escambia County school board member Jeff Bergosh is leading the new school boards group.
School board members dissatisfied with the statewide association who represents them are forming their own group, the Fort Myers News-Press and others report.
One reason is the school board members are unhappy the Florida School Boards Association joined a lawsuit challenging the state’s private school tax credit scholarship.
The Florida Coalition of School Board Members seeks to become a “financially responsible,” grassroots group that supports school choice options including charter school and local control of education issues.
“One of our responsibilities as a school board is to partner with the state… however, it’s become very clear that the school boards are really losing influence in Tallahassee,” said [Erika] Donalds, who was elected to the Collier school board in November. “We feel the FSBA has kind of lost touch.”
