The group argues that children of undocumented immigrants should not be charged out-of-state tuition despite those students being both U.S. citizens and Florida residents.
StateImpact Florida profiled one such student in August.
We told you this morning that Gov. Rick Scott had sent a letter to state universities asking a series of questions in an effort to gauge their performance.
The letter is part of Scott’s larger push to reevaluate the way state universities operate.
Yesterday we looked at some of the misconceptions about how Florida charter schools must operate.
Today we’ll take a look at a couple of charter contracts to see the different requests school districts make of charter applicants. Seminole County asked Galileo School for Gifted Learning to abide by the class size limits for district schools, for instance, instead of the slightly more forgiving standards usually applied to charter schools.
Below is a Hillsborough County charter school contract. We’ve added some notes to point out important sections.
To read the contract of a Duval County charter school run by a for-profit firm, click here.
For Galileo School for Gifted Learning’s charter click here.
And finally, a Duval County charter high school here.
Teachers rally against proposed budget cuts in March
Seminole County could turn classroom thermostats all the way up and athletes may have to pay to wear their school’s uniform.
The wife of a Polk County Tea Party congressman led a failed effort to raise money for college counselors whose positions were eliminated.
Many students can no longer walk to catch the bus after districts merged stops.
School districts have been forced to make painful budget choices as state property values decline and the economy continues to sputter. More than $2.1 billion has been cut from state education spending since 2008, according to the state education department.
This year, districts are facing an 8 percent cut, or $542 per student.
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