This just in from the Florida Education Association
CONTACT: Sharon Nesvig 850.201.2833 or 850.510.9346
Florida Education Association Launches Media Campaign against HB 7055
Tallahassee—Today, the state’s largest teacher’s union launched a media blitz intended to stop HB 7055 – a massive education omnibus bill being pushed by Speaker Corcoran; the second such measure in two years. The bill attempts to logroll nearly five dozen statutes and numerous bills into one giant mess, with virtually no public input or open legislative hearings.
“This monstrosity is a clear attempt to destroy our public schools while telling professional educators they simply are not welcome in Florida,” said Joanne McCall, President of the FEA, “Today we are asking lawmakers to stand up to Speaker Corcoran and for our children, for our teachers and for our public schools. We are asking them to say ‘enough is enough’.”
The campaign features a 30-second video titled, “The Swamp” which highlights the problems with Corcoran’s anti-student, anti-school, and anti-teacher measure:
It’s an attack on Florida families.
House bill 7055 is another Tallahassee assault on our local public schools.
Political insider Richard Corcoran has a plan to divert even more of our tax dollars to unaccountable private schools while slashing the pay of even our best teachers.
His bully bill wastes more money on failed programs while our schools starve, and our children suffer.
It’s time to drain the swamp…and we know just where to begin.
You may view the ad here: https://youtu.be/0CbkGMTwxvE
McCall also added, “There are so many things wrong with HB 7055, it’s hard to know where to begin except to say it takes even more tax dollars out of our public schools and diverts them into unaccountable failed private schools while punishing good teachers. If we hope to attract talent to or grow high quality jobs in our state, how can we do that as we tear apart our public schools?”
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The Florida Education Association is the state’s largest association of professional employees, with more than 140,000 members. FEA represents pre K-12 teachers, higher education faculty, educational staff professionals, students at our colleges and universities preparing to become teachers and retired education employees.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
If this bill becomes a law, it will further undermine public education in the state. I don’t know what will become of the bill, but Democrats have tacked on a number of wish list items including accountability for charter schools. If a charter receives a rating below a C for two consecutive years, it would subject to an overhaul. The recent bully bill would require the offenders to be transferred to another district school rather than giving vouchers to the victims. Florida is ground zero for bad education ideas. http://www.tampabay.com/blogs/gradebook/2018/02/05/florida-hb-7055-comes-under-attack-in-ads-and-adds/
Diane, look at this information regarding Familes for Excellent Schools which is a charter advocacy group here in NYC. This group has bashed NYC public schools for years but suddenly they are closing up shop once their CEO was accused of sexual harassment!!