{"id":23287,"date":"2015-02-17T10:46:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=23287"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T20:23:07","slug":"school-board-members-launch-new-pro-school-choice-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2015\/02\/17\/school-board-members-launch-new-pro-school-choice-group\/","title":{"rendered":"School Board Members Launch New Pro-School Choice Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23288\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 129px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Escambia County school board member Jeff Bergosh is leading the new school boards group.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/02\/2-17-JeffBergosh.png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23288\" alt=\"Escambia County school board member Jeff Bergosh is leading the new school boards group.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2015\/02\/2-17-JeffBergosh.png\" width=\"129\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Escambia County school board<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Escambia County school board member Jeff Bergosh is leading the new school boards group.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>School board members dissatisfied with the statewide association who represents them are forming their own group, the <em>Fort Myers News-Press<\/em> and others report.<\/p>\n<p>One reason is the school board members are unhappy the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/10\/22\/court-public-relations-battle-over-florida-private-school-programs-heating-up\/\">Florida School Boards Association joined a lawsuit challenging the state&#8217;s private school tax credit scholarship<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-press.com\/story\/news\/education\/2015\/02\/16\/new-school-board-coalition-forms\/23504099\/\">From the <em>News-Press<\/em> story<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Florida Coalition of School Board Members seeks to become a &#8220;financially responsible,&#8221; grassroots group that supports school choice options including charter school and local control of education issues.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of our responsibilities as a school board is to partner with the state\u2026 however, it&#8217;s become very clear that the school boards are really losing influence in Tallahassee,&#8221; said [Erika] Donalds, who was elected to the Collier school board in November. &#8220;We feel the FSBA has kind of lost touch.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s private school tax credit scholarship. From the News-Press story: The Florida Coalition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":23288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[501,1069,1052,1008],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23287"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23291,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23287\/revisions\/23291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}