Take Action: Florida
The Florida House K-20 Innovation Subcommittee and Senate Education Pre-K-12 Committee voted – with bipartisan support – to move forward with the Parent Empowerment Act. Sign our petition and help this important bill pass.
More information on the Parent Empowerment in Education bill (HB 1191) is available here.
Key Issues for 2012
Empower Parents
Parent involvement is critical to student success. We must empower parents with quality information and with alternatives when their child is not getting the education they deserve.
Parents deserve to have meaningful information about the effectiveness of their children’s teachers and the performance of their children’s schools. In addition, parents should be able to take action when their children are not receiving a quality education.
Several states have passed laws this year empowering parents to force real turnaround measures when their children are assigned to chronically failing schools. Parents who are committed to the success of their community school can organize and petition for specific school-wide changes when other efforts have failed.
The Florida House and Senate Education Committees have voted -- with bi-partisan support -- to move forward with the Parent Empowerment Act. This important legislation, if passed, would provide parents with critical information about their children’s teachers, particularly if a child is assigned to an ineffective teacher. In addition, it would give parents whose children are stuck in persistently failing schools, the right to petition to force change.
