Talhaasi, Florida – The Florida Education Council signed on Wednedsay on a The main expansion in rented schools In the state, cleansing the road to Schools private principal To “participate in a position” within traditional public schools.
It is the latest batch of Florida officials to expand the selection of schools in a state that has been a national model for a long time Conservative education policy. This step comes as some public schools Close their doors Because she is struggling with Low registrationAging facilities and after the will Students struggle.
The new regulations approved by the State Council shall be established on a draft law signed in law by Republican Governor Ron Desantis this year to allow operators to open more “hope schools”, which aim to serve students from low -performance schools constantly.
“We have busy who want to attend and give the best education to those who are in schools that did not get the greatest education,” said Republican MP, MP Jenna, Mawlawi, while defending her bill in the House of Representatives Hall earlier this year.
“Let’s give them the opportunity,” she added.
Created legislators Al -Amal Schools Program In 2017 to encourage schools in public, managed by private schools to open them in areas where traditional public schools failed for years, giving students and families in those neighborhoods a way to save a struggle school.
This year, the law reduces restrictions on the place where schools of hope can work, allowing them to create operations inside the walls of a public school-even high performance-if the campus has been incomplete or vacant facilities.
The new regulations of the Council require public school areas to provide the same services related to facilities for rented schools while they are in their campus, including nursery, maintenance, school safety, food service, nursing, and students’ transport-“without restriction.”
Educational areas must allow hope schools to use “each or part of an educational facility without any cost”, including classrooms and administrative offices.
“All the common interior and exterior space should be shared in a facility such as cafeterias, mathematical sciences, entertainment areas, parking spaces, storage spaces, sectors, without restrictions, in proportion to the total registration of the full -time rewarding students,” the rules continue.
Public school advocates urged the Board of Directors to vote on the proposal at Wednesday’s meeting. One of these lawyers, India Miller, argued that Al -Amal schools are designed to be a “parasite” for public schools.
“For me, it will be like the home Depot claim to give Louis space in their store and pay all their infrastructure costs. It is not logical to me,” Miller said.
The members of the Board of Directors, who were appointed by Desantis, defended the new rules and rejected fears that the expansion of the charter could withdraw cash financing away from traditional public schools.
“Al -Amal schools will not be necessary if the public school system has done its work along the way,” said Esther Bird, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.
___ The Associated Press Kimberly Cuardian writer contributed to the reports of Proventins, Rod Island. Payne is a member of the Associated Press Corps/report of the American State News Initiative. Report on America It is a non -profit national service program that places journalists in local news rooms to report secret issues.