Credit: Florida Citizens Alliance

Florida Citizens Alliance has been working diligently on both a comprehensive bill to restore local K-12 education control and a focused curriculum bill to fix the loopholes in SB 864, passed in 2014 as FS 1006.283.
We are very pleased to report that Senator Alan Hays and Representative Ray Pilon are championing companion bills to fix FS 1006.283 and its loopholes: SB 1018 and HB 899.
The purpose/intent of the original SB 864 was to assign constitutional responsibility for all instructional materials to school boards, and require a transparent policy/process for school boards and parents to remove objectionable materials. Due to several loopholes in FS 1006.283, the spirit and intent of the original bill are currently being ignored by many school districts in Florida.
Please use the button below to access our post which contains additional details about the new bills, the loopholes they are designed to close, and a petition you can send to your elected officials to thank Sen. Hays and Rep. Pilon, and to ask your legislators & school board to support these two important new bills.

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To Read or See Status of Bills:

Bill Summary Reads:

Instructional Materials for K-12 Public Education: Requires instructional materials to meet certain standards & each district school board to adopt process allowing taxpayer to object to use of specific instructional materials based on specified criteria; revises requirement that district school superintendent certify that all instructional materials for core courses meet certain standards.

http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Bills/billsdetail.aspx?BillI...

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